I flew for the first time on a plane last week and I’ve seen planes take off at the airport. It looks crazy. But being on one is totally different like holy shit. The thing just FLIES. It just… Soars… Through the sky! Like whoa man. Wtf… It’s crazy. With how much these things weigh, it’s insane to me the thing can just go up and bam, there we are, we’re flying now. Like wow… Dude crazy.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Sorry, as an engineer, this whole “shape of a birds wing makes air move faster over it” pisses me off to no end.

    Airfoils are shaped the way they are for drag purposes, not whatever crazy things they say, we could make them like massive triangles and they would still work.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 days ago

      sure, i get it.

      he did come up with that half explanation 250 what years ago, so I’ll give him a pass.

      kind of a bummer that a half explanation is his most famous 'discovery" even though he did so much

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        No, yeah, Bernoulli was a genius who did a lot otherwise, he should be remembered for all his other scientific contributions…

        But you fuck one goat…