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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Because Boeing were on such a good streak already...

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Elevators don't travel any distance so if anyone is hurt by one they immediately lose by your metrics

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

are you 100% sure that elevators don't travel any distance? or are we going to argue semantics over what distance is or isn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just throwing this out - do we include the altitude the plane climbs in its distance traveled?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

sure. why the hell not? lets go nuts on these data points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

sure

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You would need to keep track of how high airplanes fly if you did argue semantics

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

in three dimensions you have three axis. all of those measure distance traveled from 0.