Anon, it took one hundred years of trial and errors in design and mechanical failures, resulting in hundreds of deaths, to perfect the dark arts of aviation.
Whatever the fuck that last part means, how is it gay?
It is a traditional slang on 4chan (and somme parts of r*ddit).
Years ago there where a few sincere jokes with it now it is just straight up homophobia and culture war shit.
I see now, I don’t know how I went through the 2000’s without realizing this phrase was a meme until now.
I don’t know how you got to “culture war and homophobia”? It’s literally a meme phrase that’s used (often sarcastically) in response to stories on the internet. Saying something is “fake and gay” is literally shitposting, I think interpreting any deeper meaning into it is a bit of a stretch.
Edit: I just realised that this is a greentext community… half the comments here are either fake or gay, and OPs post is most definitely both.
You are in the greentext community, this is the standard phrase used by 4chan people to call stuff they dont like or think is fake.
Don’t forget about the screens they put in the windows
Next time you see a plane imaging two hooks in the middle of the wings, a crane lifting up the plane with these two hooks and shaking it.
This give you a good approximation of what the forces in the plane are, and once you picture that you might think that there is no way the plane can hold up in this situation. Yet it does.
It’s more like putting the plane in a bowl of jello and then shaking the bowl.
Wait till this guy find out that there are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky
Well, technically pregnant women can be submarines
I’ve read your comment and I’d like you to know that I don’t approve of it.
Well, I could’ve said male seahorses if that makes you feel better? Are they still submarines if you put them in an aquarium on a plane, but the plane crashes into the ocean?
We just found a loophole in thermodynamics.
Well I must admit, when the plane is resting on the ground, the wings droop down a lot. Then when airborne it’s the other way around, the wings curve upwards as the fuselage hangs from them. In my mind nothing that big made of metal should be able to flex that much.
But since I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I have learned about material science, airplane design and engineering. And I have found out that it does indeed flex that much. It also isn’t that thick, since it’s only a skeleton wrapped with a very thin layer of metal. In fact if it didn’t flex as much, it would be weaker and not stronger.
So the thing I really learnt is never to trust intuition when it comes to things like this.
In my mind nothing that big made of metal should be able to flex that much.
You can observe on a small scale that many things made of metal do, e.g. a saw or a spring.
Those wings can take a lot of abuse
It’s so rough watching all of those competent professionals at work, knowing that there are VERY few adults left in the room in what used to be the most important organizations on earth.
Glue, is how the wings stay on, really good glue
hot glue or super glue? I mean super glue has super in the name
Any type of glue is fine. Just stay away from the cardboard derivatives.
And if the wings should fail, unlikely as that may be, do be a dear and try to steer it away from the environment.
Welding is just extreme hot glue, the hottest glue
You will trigger a lot of people if you say that welding is gluing
It is gluing, but it helps that the glue is hot enough to also melt the glued materials a little bit.
Soldering and brazing really are pretty much gluing, though. Fancy hot glue metal with fine tuned properties for penetration and beading.
The glue is the melted metal of the pieces being glued.
Almost never.
You can do it but usually you feed in wire or a rod.
And they WOULD break, eventually, if they weren’t engineered to a statistically determined inspection interval and replaced/repaired at the determined overhaul time.
Be human.
Have billions of tons of atmosphere directly above you
Don’t explode
Make it make sense
The dude writes ‘atleast’ like it’s a word. I’ve seen all I need to see.
Aye, good sir, I do most heartily concur; for 'tis a truth well settled that the tongue of man is fixed, unyielding, and shall ne’er be altered.
The funniest thing is that the aerospace engineers who made this possible are just as much hopeless dysfunctional wrecks as the rest of us.
I wouldn’t say being a furry automatically makes you a dysfunctional wreck.
No, but it took me ten minutes this morning to find where I’d randomly decided to put my keys on the floor next to the piano headphones, so that didn’t feel very functional.
With the low low down payment of lifelong burnout!
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No, ocean water can’t sink steel boats
But it melt steel beams?
Regardless of how it happened, (the plane hijackings Orchestrated by “ex” CIA operative Osama Bin Laden duh) 9-11 was used as an excuse to dissolve civil liberties at home and wage war abroad.
It’s a well known fact that steel weighs the same as feathers
A common misunderstanding. Boats (made of rock) float due to gravity pushing the water up (as it bounces off the earth). Boats made of feathers (ducks) harness the same principle, as they are also filled with water.
Giant steel ship can transport the giant rock across the sea
Well… When you put one of those huge tankers in the water, it will move a LOT of water out of the way.
As long as the tanker weights less than the weight of all that water it displaced, it will float.
As you keep loading up the tanker with more cargo, it will go deeper into the water right? But this means that it is pushing more water out of the way (the water that used to be where the boat now is), which balances out the weight because that creates more buoyancy.
A rock, on the other hand, is heavier than the water that it displaces, so it sinks like a tanker whose front fell off.
As long as the tanker weights less than the weight of all that water it displaced, it will float.
But that’s only because of the spell that the ancient Wizard Archimedes cast in the elder days. Archimedes didn’t discover his principle, he molded reality to follow his rule.
As long as the tanker weights less than the weight of all that water it displaced, it will float.
But steel is heavier than water
And water is surprisingly heavy itself.
If you take 1kg of steel and 1kg of water, which is heavier? That’s right, steel is heavier.
If she weighs more than a duck, then she’s made of wood.
We shall use the larger scales!
And therefore?
… A WITCH!
Now this guy knows what he’s talking about
A steelogram of kilo is feather than heaviers
Ah, but boats aren’t solid steel! It has lots of hollow spaces inside, making the volume up displaced water bigger, without increasing the weight!
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Metal is heavier than water. Virtually every containber is fille to the brim with products, now I don’t know you but most everything we buy is heavier than water.
It’s clear they have some kind of extra propulsion in those, most likely magnetic anti gravitation.
The bane of shipping is that a lot of money goes to shipping air around :)
at takeoff i like to imagine that the plane is going into a massive underground subway network with really nice screens along the sides
I would be worried if the aeroplane goes down rather than up during takeoff.
i remember when i thought these jokes were funny. now i know tons of people actually think like this and it’s depressing rather than funny.
I remember a quote from an A380 pilot saying the plane doesn’t look like it should be able to fly.
Even the people that fly them know they don’t look like a flying object.
I get it. That plane is so disgusting the earth tries to keep it as far as possible from the ground.
No, thats the helicopter. It’s said that it does not fly, but is repulsed by the earth because it is the hubris of man manifest.
Planes fly because aerodynamics.
Helicopters fly because money.
Helicopters leave the ground because God has gazed upon them, and became angered when He saw them among His beasts, on the lands of His creation. God then decided to expel the helicopters from His earthly kingdom to flutter helplessly in His skies. God did this to punish Man, whose hubris led him to climb into the unholy creation. The Lord would then strike down the abomination fluttering in His skies, condemning the heretics that had climbed aboard in the belief that they could fool Him.
Thus the name “Jesus nut”.
No, it’s called the Jesus nut because if it fails, only Jesus can save you now.
