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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.
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 steel is heavier than water
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.
And therefore?
… A WITCH!
We shall use the larger scales!
A steelogram of kilo is feather than heaviers
Now this guy knows what he’s talking about
And water is surprisingly heavy itself.
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!
Since we are pedantic, what you say isn’t true.
The tanker weights exactly as much as the weight of the water that it displaces. They are in balance. You describe it yourself. The tanker sinks deeper if it becomes heavier and swims more up as it becomes lighter.
The measure of “boat swims” is not the weight of the displaced water. It is wether there is some boat wall left sticking out of the water to keep more water from entering and displacing the air that keeps the submerged volume in weight balance with the water.
So we have rising sea levels because there’s so many big ships in the ocean, got it.
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Xkcd did this one.
Since we’re being extra pedantic, what I said was:
As long as the tanker weights less than the weight of all that water it displaced, it will float.
This is factually true, and you didn’t disprove it.
As for “boat wall sticking out of the water”, that’s just grasping at straws man. If that boat is fully waterproof, like a submarine, the definition holds up. Or if you consider that water entering the boat adds to the boat weight, then again it will hold true as it will weigh more than the water it displaces.
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 :)
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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.
🤔
Giant steel ship can transport the giant rock across the sea
Be human.
Have billions of tons of atmosphere directly above you
Don’t explode
Make it make sense
The funniest thing is that the aerospace engineers who made this possible are just as much hopeless dysfunctional wrecks as the rest of us.
With the low low down payment of lifelong burnout!
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.
Glue, is how the wings stay on, really good glue
hot glue or super glue? I mean super glue has super in the name
Welding is just extreme hot glue, the hottest glue
You will trigger a lot of people if you say that welding is gluing
Any type of glue is fine. Just stay away from the cardboard derivatives.
And they WOULD break, eventually, if they weren’t engineered to a statistically determined inspection interval and replaced/repaired at the determined overhaul time.
This person’s grasp of physics is like halfway there. Like one more module and they’d calm the fuck down.
‘flying for no reason’
‘ignoring gravity’
‘somehow joints don’t break’
Halfway might be overstating it
Nono they’re right about basically all but the no reason and ignoring gravity part. The fact that we can design an airframe that stays together under those kinds of forces is indeed absolutely crazy.
Crazy, but not fake (or gay lol) 😉
Sorry. It’s real but gay. Nothing as phallic as an airliner can be straight.
Not fake or gay? Sounds fake and gay
“A little knowledge” has never been more dangerous.
Wokeness is what keeps them in the air, which is why they’re falling out of it now
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.
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 think large planes “look” like they can’t work because their “relative speed” is really low — that is, their speed relative to their length. We’re used to seeing birds cover tens of lengths per second, whereas a large airliner covers ~1ish per second at takeoff.
Or not, but this always seemed like a plausible explanation as to why planes look impossible. (Though given that hovering birds don’t look funny, maybe this is a silly observation…).
That’s a really thoughtful take, I’m glad you shared. I think it has merit. I think proximity is a factor too. The public rarely gets up close to a jet, but I can attest from personal experience they seem much faster when you’re closer during takeoff and landing.
Though given that hovering birds don’t look funny, maybe this is a silly observation…
Birds flying against the wind and staying in the same spot as a result do look kinda weird though. Especially if you are not aware/don’t notice there is strong winds
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.
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.
Don’t forget about the screens they put in the windows
…fake and gay
Hey now. Let’s not blame gay people for the common-sense-defying demon-wizard sorcery that engineers get up to when someone threatens to take away their calculators and caffeine.
Bruh some of the earliest planes were literally called biplanes. The gay has been complicit in aviation demon magic since the very beginning.
G.I.N.A.S.F.S.
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.
Whatever the fuck that last part means, how is it gay?
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.
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 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.
I see now, I don’t know how I went through the 2000’s without realizing this phrase was a meme until now.
