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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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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does anyone actually know? We have laws and math that predict and model behavior but last time I checked know one knew why.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, big magnets work because they are made of electrons that have their magnetic fields aligned so they don't cancel each other out. Now, as for why electrons have magnetic fields in the first place, that we don't know