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It's crazy that a 60 ton metal airplane can just fly (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In fitting natural conditions your house can fly too, just not whole and not for long

I mean, it's crazy, but I'm more fascinated with smaller airplanes. Imagine it, you can make something like a Piper Cub almost as easy\hard as 1000 years ago it was to make a good hauberk.

And for those mentioning computers - my feeling is the same about computers. It's nice to have a laptop with Linux or FreeBSD (not counting corporate malware), but a machine much simpler, but one that can be produced entirely in an area of 10mln people, full chain, would be much cooler for me.

I'm in awe of distributed production lines being possible and allowed by today's machinery.

I think that is something we have to rediscover. Centralization is stifling humanity's advancement. At the same time in the real world rather unpleasant people's power depends on it, so it won't be quick or easy. But I think it is happening anyway, just very slowly. Evolution, not revolution. Surely I would be glad for it to be a revolution, to see it as a (yet) young person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not possible.

Most manufacturing of things like computer chips (just the chips themselves) require raw materials from all over the world. You can't just use any sand. 10M people is just a little more than the population of NYC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I would like us to be trying to change that and not to make things more and more centralized. Because that kind of civilization will fail.