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I wish reporters would get this right. It's blown, not sucked. Vacuum doesn't exert a force on anything; there's nothing there. It's the high pressure air insid
by jloughry 9y ago
I wish reporters would get this right. It's blown, not sucked. Vacuum doesn't exert a force on anything; there's nothing there. It's the high pressure air inside that does the work.
- CGamesPlay 9y agoOK but then the word "sucked" can't ever be used. Inhaling? That's the atmosphere blowing air into your lungs.
- jupp0r 9y agoIf you want to split hairs: It's the pressure differential that's creating the air flow. I doubt the plane was flying in actual vacuum with a turbofan engine.
- dasil003 9y agoYou're essentially saying that suck is invalid at a conceptual level.
- hyperbovine 9y agoThis sort of pedantry blows.
- seattle_spring 9y agoFalse. It sucks.
- lostmsu 9y agoSo does this spring in Seattle :-D
- seattle_spring 9y agoIronically, I made this account in Spring 2015, probably one of the nicest Springs Seattle has ever seen.
- projektir 9y agoHuh, what's wrong with it? This is my first spring in Seattle.
- lostmsu 9y agoIt has been raining heavily during past several weeks.
- lurquer 9y agoI believe the word "suck" was used correctly. The distinction in use between 'blow' and 'suck' seems to be the direction of travel. If items are moving away from some centralized point in random directions, we refer to them as being 'blown'. As in blown up. If items are moving TOWARDS a single point, we refer to them as being sucked. As all the items in the plane -- including the poor passenger -- were momentarily being impelled towards a single point (the window), the use of 'suck' is appropriate.
- gowld 9y agoIn physics, push is the same as pull. The only difference is your metaphysical visualization. It's the pressure differential that does the work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum
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- nikanj 9y ago”How did you drink your milkshake?” ”It was blown to my mouth via a straw” ?
- tedunangst 9y agoCapillary action. I'm a slow drinker.
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- roywiggins 9y agoAre you my freshman year highschool physics teacher? He also thought this distinction was extremely important.