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This person's grasp of physics is like halfway there. Like one more module and they'd calm the fuck down.

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...).

My faith in humanity is so low that I 100% believe there are planes are not real truthers that's out there.

Be human.

Have billions of tons of atmosphere directly above you

Don't explode

Make it make sense

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.

It's not pressure under the wings, it's fucking Bernoulli sucking on top of them.

(So, yes, sure, it is gay, but it's not fake.)

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.

...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.

This perfectly encapsulates how anti vaxxers and others think. "Ive thought it through and it cantnbebright". Its incredible how we can have access to vast amounts of information and yet live in an age of gleeful ignorance.

The funniest thing is that the aerospace engineers who made this possible are just as much hopeless dysfunctional wrecks as the rest of us.

Also weird how giant steel tankers float on the ocean. Especially when they're weighed down by all that cargo. It's practically unbelievable. I throw a tiny rock in the ocean, and it sinks...but not those giant steel boats? /s

Don't forget about the screens they put in the windows

Glue, is how the wings stay on, really good glue

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.

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.