• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Except that is the guy on a a flight in 2020 by himself when the airlines kept flying routes with empty planes so they didn’t lose access to their routes.

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    21 hours ago

    I think I, too, would stay on the plane. I pretty clearly designed a plane and made it’s schematics, but I sure as shit never put hand-to-tool and riveted those hot bitching shags of metal into that soft aluminum skin that rippled so gently under my heated, pounding assault.

    Plus, staff and security get pretty upset about a person leaving the plane once boarded, so I’ll take my chances with the engines and landing gear over super lame cops with guns.

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    22 hours ago

    I don’t understand… Do engineering students build commercial airliners now, or…? I mean it would explain Boeing I guess.

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    So he’s gonna just… stay on the plane? Just sit there on a plane he knows isn’t going to go anywhere?

    Sounds like the students were the smart ones, they could at least go catch another flight.

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    1 day ago

    When I designed physics exam questions I tried to make them such that if the answer was wrong people in the problem could die.

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      It’s more fun when the problem involves them dying anyway.

      [Introducing KE formula] “Would you rather be hit by a semi truck or a lime scooter? What if the lime scooter is going really fast and the semi truck is just slowly moving through the parking lot?”

      “If I drop [student who is currently on their phone] out of an airplane, ignoring air resistance, how much kinetic energy will they have when they smack into the ground? Is that an “elastic” or “inelastic” collision?”

      Or “spaghettification” when doing gravity. Or “yeah, if a gamma ray burst happened to point at earth, it would wipe out all of human civilization.” Or “if the sun went out we wouldn’t know for about 8 minutes.”

      Physics is phun.

      And you have to traumatize them a little bit for lab safety. I remember my upper div physics lab back in undergrad started with like a full two hours of “these are all the ways you can die in here.” I always make sure to talk about Karen Wetterhahn in my own safety lectures.

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        “if the sun went out we wouldn’t know for about 8 minutes.”

        you might like the first chapter of Iron Sunrise. it’s a SF book that begins with someone destroying a civilized planet by causing their sun to explode. not a rare trope, but they describe it in a realistic-sounding way. (the rest of the book is mid, unfortunately)

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    I get it’s an old meme joke, but I think it’s still pretty funny so why downvote it?

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      23 hours ago

      How often do you like to reheat, eat and freeze the leftovers of the same meal before you want to eat and taste something fresh again?

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          Are you aware that all us autists are different?

          Also, how does the number of autists on this platform have anything to do with that many people do not like to see old jokes because those jokes are old?

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              That’s not what I said though. I wasn’t talking about identical prepared meals, i was talking about the same meal from the same batch reheated over and over again.

              Bad joke.
              I even intentionally phrased my initial comment in a way that it shouldn’t be interpreted as identical meals but the same meal.

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                  But we do not make a huge batch at once then reheat it and refreeze it over and over again. I thought that to be obvious, that’s why i chose the terms “reheat” and “freeze again”.

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      It’s AI slop unless you have a source. Pretty low energy meme.