Relevant Louis CK video.
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Crazier still when you consider it's pushed into the sky by its own farts.
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it's crazy that you can just jump, and you go up for a bit.
It doesn't just fly, it rages against gravity, using every possible trick in the book
that and about 223,378 pounds of jet fuel then it flies
https://www.globalair.com/aircraft-for-sale/specifications?specid=1699
Steel beams are not gonna melt themselves.
steel beams don't need to reach their melting point to deform and fail under structural stress
boy do I agree.
I fly a lot, and I think about this a lot. it's absolutely nuts.
I saw a diagram once explaining how planes fly, this is a good explanation of that:
"Airplane wings are shaped to make air move faster over the top of the wing. When air moves faster, the pressure of the air decreases. So the pressure on the top of the wing is less than the pressure on the bottom of the wing. The difference in pressure creates a force on the wing that lifts the wing up into the air."
so that's floating around the back of my mind while I sit in my air chair and think:
"and there we are.
We are climbing into the air again in the big flexible metal tube.
The wings have flex and they almost look like they are flapping in the wind right there.
well, this is crazy again"
approximates my thought process each time I fly.
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More cool detail about a modern jet airliner than you thought imaginable all delivered in a cool 3D animation.