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Does Andrew not know about Airplanes or has he being trying to fly like Goku?

[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 125 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Pretty sure everyone my age who saw the episode of Dragon Ball Z where Gohan teaches Videl how to fly all sat there that day and fuckin tried our hardest.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

One of the consequences of getting older is that you forget what its like to simply not know things.

My two year old son is constantly climbing up stuff and tumbling off it without any regard to the possibility that gravity might be holding him back. Every time he lands hard, he looks at me with tears in his eyes, as though the whole world has betrayed him. If you could just fly by not understand gravity, everyone under the age of six would be levitating constantly.

Although, in Andrew's case, it might be less "getting older" and more "getting repeatedly concussed".

[–] IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just wait 'til he turns 3 - that's when they gain the teleportation skill.

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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well, it's not enough to not understand gravity, or Isaac Newton would be the most hated human of all time. You have to fall and miss the ground, for example by being distracted in just the right moment.

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do remember thinking something along the lines of: "... that.... sounds weirdly do-able.....?? .... Shut up, brain.... Unless......"

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[–] STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 116 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The secret is that you have to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I remember reading that for the first time at 13 and thinking it was the smartest fucking thing I had ever read. It makes perfect sense too. Sadly my aim is impeccable.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's basically how orbiting works in a roundabout way. You just needed to go faster!

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

in a roundabout way

Very good.

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[–] derry@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tell that to a whale or bowl of petunias that suddenly materialized in the atmosphere of a planet with gravity

[–] FjordDan@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I almost upvoted you, then I realized you had 42 upvotes.

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[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I tried hiring myself out as a distraction for people just before they hit the ground but the air horn and firecrackers aren’t working, maybe I just don’t have the legs for it

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[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I only just noticed who the OOP was

[–] beetus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Got whiplash seeing it was him.

[–] nyankas@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Franz Reichelt, the Flying Tailor, seemed to be pretty sure he could fly when, in 1912, he tried testing a wingsuit he designed himself. By jumping from the Eiffel Tower. He could not fly.

[–] banause@feddit.org 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I had a similar genius idea involving a bunk bed when I was 5.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I can't tell the difference between Andrew Tate accounts and Andrew Tate parody accounts. Wonder if he's trying to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense?

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

But I get a ~~stupid-looking~~ sweet hat off that body, plus scrolls containing a new and hilarious way to commit suicide!

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[–] Rokin@leminal.space 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With the Scrolls of Icarian Flight, flying is not the problem, but the landing.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tarhiel's dumbass just needed to cast another scroll before landing. 🤦‍♂️

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.

If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.

The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We'll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

To Andrew Tate: Try me. Sincerely, every single pilot in the world

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 1 week ago

A friend of mine came close once. In Morrowind, he made a jumping potion that allowed him to clear the entire island and two jumps. one from the edge of the map to the top of the mountain, and then another one to the other edge of the island. He got stunned at the end of that last fall and drowned in about a foot of water.

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

there's a special word for people trying to make someone else fly; defenestration

[–] Scuzzm0nkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I do believe that requires an open window in the vicinity as well.

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[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure trying to fly is a pretty common experience, and many of those people tried really really hard.

I did. I settled on doing it with mechanical help.

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Oh shit, I thought that was a LinkedIn Lunatic post and was searching for the next part.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Uh, yeah I tried. I jumped off my roof with cardboard attached to my arms and flapped. It didn't work. 😔

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bethesda needs to make more games.

One of the kids at my college did an art thesis to the effect of mapping out, in giant greys anatomy meets da Vinci like drawings, what it would take for the human body to evolve to support wings. Mad scientist level and cool work.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I heard that it’s easier if you start from the top of a high building so you have time to get a feel for the air.

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[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

My parents made me wings from scraps of wood and fabric and I'd run along the sidewalk trying to take off.

It never worked though.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I remember when New Age sold me on Idealism.

Here's the thing. It's bullshit.

History has many examples of men who fell to their deaths believing God would stop the fall.

One of them was actually a guy who claimed to be the second coming of Jesus. Claimed he'd miraculously fly on a donkey.

Fell right off the cliff and debunked his whole religion he did.

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[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My elementary school classmate Seth did this, he wound up with a broken leg. Although he did hedge his bets with an umbrella, maybe that ruined it.

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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

Please stop posting the bullshit this disgusting person says. He does not deserve the attention.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Bruh last time I tried to fly…it went fine? I got on a plane and flew. Eat shit sex pest.

[–] tmyakal 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, no scientists have ever done a double-blind study on the effectiveness of parachutes at height. There's a possibility that landing safely is just a placebo effect.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Specifically calling out Bethesda is both very accurate and question raising.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Wait... you guys can't fly ?

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