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.

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    13 days ago

    Wait until you find out that probably wrong.

    Its what we assumed for the last 100 odd years, but apparently in the last few we discovered they don’t actually work like that.

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        13 days ago

        I don’t know the full story, only that the fact air particles have to speed up over the top so they match up at the end is incorrect - one at the top, one at the bottom don’t actually arrive at the end at the same time. There is something missing.