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Paper planes have been a thing for a long while, but I guess no one thought that could scale? It's like fire, super obvious in retrospective, and yet took thou
by moralestapia 2y ago
Paper planes have been a thing for a long while, but I guess no one thought that could scale?
It's like fire, super obvious in retrospective, and yet took thousands of years to become a technology.
- mr_toad 2y agoIt’s not easy to scale materials and retain the necessary rigidity. Like if you tried to scale up a primitive kite to support a human it would either be too heavy or too bendy. You need better materials and better construction techniques.
- NovemberWhiskey 2y ago>Paper planes have been a thing for a long while, but I guess no one thought that could scale? ... and they were right, because aerodynamics is not scale-invariant.
- moralestapia 2y agoWell, airplanes do exist now, so that did definitely scale.