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[-] [email protected] 146 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's much more diversity than the muffler theory fits.

They also have portholes and watertight doors, suggesting that they're more meant to look like they're made from ship salvage.

But first and foremost, they're meant to look cartoonish and funny.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago

They're not though. I think someone's brain associated side muffler mounts with a random outlet pipe halfway down.

On its side, it's more similar to some rudimentary boilers. But eeally, it's just random scrap metal put together to represent resourcefulness from human pollution with little further thought from the artist.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Airplane mufflers have random outlet pipes on the side like that. It's for cabin heat.

No shit; most single-engine piston planes take heat for the cabin (and carburetor heat) from a shroud wrapped around the muffler. Which is why those little pill-in-a-card carbon monoxide detectors are common in pilot supply catalogs like Sporty's, the thin steel wall that separates cabin air from raw exhaust gases is in a place that is damn near impossible to fully inspect.

Twin engine piston planes are even dumber. It is impractical to run an air duct all the way from the nacelle to the fuselage, so instead they put a gas heater in the nose. Yeah. A heater. That burns leaded aviation gasoline. For cabin heat. They splode sometimes.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's how the heater of a Cessna Skyhawk made TODAY works. It's also a lot more common to find an airplane that has been in service for 50 years.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

i didn't know they still made skyhawks. i tought they were all from the 70s.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The 172 was in production from the mid 1950's to 1986, and then they resumed production in 1996 to the present day. It is my understanding that the modern Skyhawk is technically a different aircraft, different type certificate and few interchangeable parts, but it's still the Toyota Corolla of airplanes.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago

How many people never realized that Bikini bottom is below the Bikini Atoll, site of early atomic bomb testing.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago

Gonna be that guy (hopefully the educational and not the annoying one though): the correct phrase is "make do".

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Damn, you were right on queue with that correction. OP should of picked up a dictionary, huh?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

Pray tell, where is "should of" in the dictionary?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Irregardless, I think their making a joke

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

"Should" is in the S section (specifically the "sho" section).

"Of" is in the O section (specifically the "of" section, right at the start of it).

Or if you meant both together, dictionaries don't work like that.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's a fucking joke, mate.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

So you are saying that polluting the ocean is good because it gives fish a home?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes junk is used to serve as artificial reefs. It's pretty cool.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Sweet Tank!

Now give them some fighter jets!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The fate of Atlantis II: Atlantis strikes back.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, time's definitely due for a new generation of jets.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The US navy just dropped two this year.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

We sunk a whole damned aircraft carrier of the coast, and fought for the privilege! I believe it's one of the largest artificial reefs in the world.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Are they tho?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Shouldn't Bikini Bottom have a ton more car batteries?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

This explains why my car didn't work. I used a pineapple and rock.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Where are the car batteries I've been throwing out for my grandma?

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