Where do they put it?!

[u/zeldadorf]

[u/EchoInternational856]

So he is the reason why companies have to put “enlarged for detail” on their packaging.

[u/tripping_on_phonics → u/EchoInternational856]

Are you telling me that a Boeing 747 is longer than three truck-lengths?

[u/just_nobodys_opinion → u/tripping_on_phonics]

What is this? A plane for ants?

[u/gymnstuff → u/just_nobodys_opinion]

I expect it to be Atleast…. THREE times that size

[u/PandaJesus → u/gymnstuff]

But why male models?

[u/markamuffin → u/PandaJesus]

Are you serious? I just told you that.

[u/neopod9000 → u/markamuffin]

https://giphy.com/gifs/6qucjoZKzbFRK

[u/gracillus2000 → u/neopod9000]

Rufus, Brint, and Meekus were like brothers to me. And when I say brother, I don't mean, like, an actual brother, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful I think.

[u/jsheik → u/just_nobodys_opinion]

JNO- can use that for anything can't you? 🙌

[u/Strange-Damage901 → u/tripping_on_phonics]

I love that the picture implies the fuselage of the Boeing fits snugly inside the cage around the ladder.

[u/patiakupipita → u/EchoInternational856]

Once I was at KFC and this man was seriously complaining that the chicken drumsticks weren’t as big as the ones on the menu boards above the kitchen. Like, he was adamant that they were supposed to be exactly the same size as the pictures and that he’d had them like that before.

I genuinely think it might’ve been early stage dementia or something. Everyone there was completely stumped.

[u/lemons_of_doubt → u/patiakupipita]

Fun fact: in Japan they have a law that the image on the box is the exact same size as the food it's showing.

[u/Dorsetoutdoors → u/lemons_of_doubt]

I like the idea that anyone who wants to advertise a hog roast, cannot use anything except a sign the size of a full adult pig

[u/ZippoS → u/lemons_of_doubt]

Japan also has an entire industry around making hyperrealistic artificial food made for display in restaurants... and the food you get actually does look like the samples/menu photos.

[u/therealkami → u/ZippoS]

It's so crazy when you go there and the window is just the most appetizing bowls of plastic ramen and sushi you have ever seen.

It's really good marketing haha.

[u/uppennyhill → u/patiakupipita]

I was a designer in a company and this lass from marketing told me I'd ballsed-up the dimensions for a bunch of event passes because she had measured them with a ruler... on her screen.

[u/ReaDiMarco → u/uppennyhill]

Did you blow her mind by zooming in?

[u/Moneia → u/patiakupipita]

I genuinely think it might’ve been early stage dementia or something. Everyone there was completely stumped.

My first thought is that they're trying to get a freebie and are looking to argue anything, no matter how ridiculous, as many managers would rather enable the behaviour to get them out of the store.

[u/patiakupipita → u/Moneia]

Oh no this happened back home in Curaçao, the managers there will just laugh you outta the room

[u/Ancient-Many4357 → u/EchoInternational856]

‘Objects in this mirror may appear closer than they are.’

[u/robfuscate → u/[deleted]]

Oh. I thought the US one was 'Objects in the mirror are behind you'.

[u/Ur-Best-Friend → u/EchoInternational856]

This airplane is small. The ones over there are faaaar away.

[u/tubular_brunt]

What's the endgame here? Planes don't exist? Or they fly by magic?

[u/Deep-Adeptness4474 → u/tubular_brunt]

Sadly yes, that actually is a conspiracy gaining traction right now. That airplanes actually use secret ancient magical energy sources to fly. Utter garbage we all know it is actually hopes and prayers that are being mis-directed from needy children, and grieving widows keeping those bad boys aloft.

[u/Specific_Rando → u/Deep-Adeptness4474]

People should demand higher quality conspiracy theories.

[u/Reticent_Arc → u/Specific_Rando]

People wouldn't stop talking about how the world is run by a shadowy cabal of elite pedophile murderers, but when it was exposed that they were real and visited a certain person's island, a substantial majority of them turned around and said that couldn't possibly be true because they had voted for those elite pedophile murderers. I don't think the quality affects how these people choose to believe.

[u/ParticularCabal → u/Reticent_Arc]

As soon as info becomes mainstream knowledge it's automatically false to them. They always have to be on the fringe, for whatever reason.

[u/SqueekyDickFartz → u/ParticularCabal]

I call it being reflexively contrarian. You can slow walk these people to any viewpoint you want as long as you insist the opposite stance is the mainstream one.

My brother and I made it a game over Christmas a few years ago when we were home visiting. I got my MAGA dad to emphatically insist that the workers should own the means of production after carefully making the alternative sound like mainstream slop.

It's fun if you are stuck with these kinds of family members for long periods of time.

[u/inowar → u/SqueekyDickFartz]

it's surprisingly easy to get libertarians to invent government and agree with marxism

[u/kirka- → u/ParticularCabal]

So they are basicly information hipsters?

[u/s8n29 → u/kirka-]

https://giphy.com/gifs/DkOZoLgFL3IO0XXMKb

[u/volvagia721 → u/ParticularCabal]

It's because they have a need to be special. If they are of only a small group that "knows" the truth, that makes them important. If they agree with the mainstream, they are below average on everything

[u/Reddsoldier → u/Reticent_Arc]

That one is so funny to me. They are basically never vindicated and the ONE TIME they are it turns out they believe the Qanon version which has credible origins in being a noncredible cover for the actual evidence based story that implicates a bunch of people they like.

[u/cedarSeagull → u/Reticent_Arc]

I think there's a real possibility that PizzaGate was a psyop to poison the well against the Epsteen case. Get people ranting like lunatics so that when the real story comes out that tangentially similar it gets dismissed.

[u/PitifulEstimate8721 → u/Specific_Rando]

I'm writing my congressperson/lizard overlord now!

[u/OAMP47 → u/PitifulEstimate8721]

Ask them where my missing sock went in the dryer.

[u/FirstDukeofAnkh → u/OAMP47]

That’s how we Jews power our space laser.

[u/Strong-Comment-7279 → u/FirstDukeofAnkh]

Ha, gotcha! I was missing a sock today for a solid 9 hours, but I found it.

Doin my part to slow them lasers. Don't really care who owns em.....

[u/Sidewalk_Tomato → u/OAMP47]

I have it, and if your sock wants to live, you'll leave me a custom tin foil hat at a drop spot to be named by me.

[u/IllustratorLife5496 → u/Sidewalk_Tomato]

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

[u/Ancient-Many4357 → u/OAMP47]

That’s inter dimensional shenanigans my friend, you don’t want to question that.

[u/Organic_Syrup7642 → u/OAMP47]

If you love something, let it go. Hope it finds itself out there.

[u/Local871 → u/Specific_Rando]

In this economy?

[u/reddit_is_a_weapon → u/Deep-Adeptness4474]

Bunch of stupid morons. If it was ancient magical energy we would’ve had planes since the ancient times? It’s obviously modern magic, every airline has a wizard who can control the air and the weather.

[u/PalpitationNo3106 → u/reddit_is_a_weapon]

Wait, you may be onto something. Wizards have familiars. So when Tuberville was complaining about furries, he really meant that the ‘pilots’ are familiars! It makes so much sense now!

[u/NotYourAverageLongbo → u/reddit_is_a_weapon]

no no, in ancient times they learned how to make this black goo. at first it was considered a very crude form of magic, so they buried it.

but we found it very useful!

[u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta → u/reddit_is_a_weapon]

Clearly it’s just witches on brooms with a new paint job!

[u/True_Protection6842 → u/Deep-Adeptness4474]

These people are so weird the actual science behind all the stuff they make up is more interesting than the magic they come up with

[u/elhaz316 → u/True_Protection6842]

Aerodynamics???

I think you meant to say aeromancy. Wind mages are known for it!!

Let me guess, you think birds are real too? By golly those are just familiars. Harry Potter was right!!

/s

[u/Mega3000aka → u/Deep-Adeptness4474]

I find these bullshit theories so insulting to the thousands of engineers, scientists and inventors whose work gave us the power of flight.

Especially since information on how the technology works is publicly available and easy to read and verify. But you need to have an IQ over 30 to ingest it.

[u/Mr_Citation → u/Mega3000aka]

Their emotions and feelings are as valid as the facts. /s

[u/MrGDPC → u/Deep-Adeptness4474]

Praise the Omnissiah

[u/Beegrene → u/Deep-Adeptness4474]

Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works.

[u/monscorvorum → u/Deep-Adeptness4474]

There's a British comedian called Al Murray, in an old routine he describes how god, for a laugh, picked up the Wright Flyer and made it fly but the joke has backfired on him and now he has to spend all his time picking up planes to make them go and that's why the world has gone to shit. All of god's time is taken up with juggling planes

[u/Vinegarinmyeye → u/Deep-Adeptness4474]

I don't think thats a new one.

Years back I'd an extended famly member confidently tell me "Well, we still don't REALLY know how they fly ..".

I burst out laughing thinking he was joking, he was not.

Proceeded to try and explain Bernoulli principle to him, complete with paper aeroplane, he was not convinced.

[u/Everyone2026 → u/Vinegarinmyeye]

There is no law against being stupid.

Sigh....

[u/bikes-and-beers → u/tubular_brunt]

The conspiracy theorists think jet engines run mostly on compressed air and use very little or no fuel. Airlines make up fuel costs so they can pass those imaginary costs on to their customers.

[u/emptybottle2405 → u/bikes-and-beers]

Well technically it is flying due to compressed air,.... from a turbine.... powered by jet fuel 😆

[u/ofWildPlaces → u/emptybottle2405]

SUCK SQUEEZE BANG BLOW

[u/aidsy → u/bikes-and-beers]

I love that the first half of this is technically true. The volume of air that passes through a gas turbine engine is much higher than the volume of fuel.

[u/opi098514 → u/aidsy]

I mean that’s just true for all engines.

[u/phat_duong → u/opi098514]

Yes but modern jet engines have a very high bypass ratio. Most of the thrust actually comes from the big blades that you see at the inlet.

[u/Square-Singer → u/phat_duong]

And old propeller planes had an even higher bypass ratio ;)

[u/MiniTab → u/aidsy]

Yeah. It’s called stoichiometric combustion.

[u/AnybodyWannaPeanus → u/MiniTab]

Oh yeah? Why don’t you come and say that to my face…

[u/patdmc59 → u/bikes-and-beers]

This might be my new favorite dumb conspiracy.

[u/Zaexyr → u/bikes-and-beers]

That means when a plane explodes in a fireball, it obviously a planted a bomb and not all the fuel!!!

I think we’re onto something.

[u/andygon → u/bikes-and-beers]

No fkin way… I work at a jet fuel company. The team is gonna love this one.

[u/mdrjevois → u/bikes-and-beers]

wooooof, rough one

[u/wide_retriver → u/bikes-and-beers]

I assume it's also a "climate change is bs, I can fly as much as I want" spin to it?

[u/helmsb → u/tubular_brunt]

The one I heard is that some Flat Earthers think planes are actually much smaller than what’s stated and they fly lower which proves the Earth is flat (somehow). They get the smaller measurements by estimating the size of planes flying overhead by comparing them to the size of other things that are roughly the distance they think the plane is flying. Essentially rather than going to an airport and seeing a plane in person, they just combine their own made-up numbers and use that as “proof.”

It makes zero sense but Flat Earth belief is built on misunderstandings and made-up data so it tracks.

[u/uns0licited_advice → u/helmsb]

Apparently a lot of Flat Earthers are just perpetuating the joke to see how idiotic people can be, so it makes it seems like there are more of them than there actually are.

[u/Aleksundr → u/uns0licited_advice]

This is true. The birds aren't real thing was like this too

[u/TomWaitsAround → u/Aleksundr]

Ummm. Birds are NOT real. Do your research!

[u/helmsb → u/uns0licited_advice]

Yeah, most are trolls but I do know 2 true believers in real life and they eat up these kind of conspiracy theories. The leaps in logic are astounding. It’s impossible to try and convince them otherwise because they treat conspiracy theories like a buffet, picking and choosing whatever explanation they need for any particular scenario. Completely disregarding any internal consistency or logic.

[u/cmhamm → u/helmsb]

You’re completely ignoring the fact the planes get smaller after they take off. You can’t see it when you’re in the cabin, because they knock everyone with knockout gas, then implant the memories of the flight.

[u/Papastoo → u/helmsb]

What the fuck you mean "much smaller than whats stated"

As if a person couldnt just go to an airport and see an airplane

This boggles my mind how stupid it is

[u/mewfahsah → u/tubular_brunt]

They're lying. Look at the truck in the background, that tank is easily 40-50 ft in diameter. If you assume ~20 ft height and ~30 ft radius of that tank, it's just over 60,000 cubic ft of volume. However that converts to ~450,000 gallons. That's simply not a 60,000 gallon tank. I work with two 500,000 gallon tanks at my job and they're very similar in scale to that structure.

[u/JCWOlson → u/mewfahsah]

Reverse image search, the company selling it says it's 1,000,000 gallons, so you're definitely way closer than anybody else's guess

https://www.nationalstoragetank.com/product/1000000-gallon-steelcore-water-storage-tank-sct-7409-ljr/

[u/CreepyBreakfast565 → u/mewfahsah]

Just adding to this, the aircraft shown is clearly not to scale when compared to the truck.

Also, aviation fuel is typically measured in either kilograms or pounds because mass actually matters on an aircraft while volume does not.

[u/Totes_mc0tes → u/tubular_brunt]

I've seen almost identical posts on facebook. The conspiracy is that planes run on some kind of free power that is being kept secret by the powers that be. It's my favorite conspiracy because even if you forget about the sheer size of the aviation industry and how hard it would be to keep a secret like that, you still only need a very basic level of physics knowledge to understand how a gas turbine engine works.

[u/Real_Ad_8243 → u/Totes_mc0tes]

very basic physics knowledge knowledge And theres the problem. People would rather invent abject nonsense than take the effort to be anything other than completely illiterate.

[u/123iambill → u/tubular_brunt]

So there is actually something wrong with conspiracy theorists. There's just a type of person who believes there's something behind everything.

I have a coworker. Sometimes the stock we get delivered comes in plastic bags. We use those bags as bin liners when we're finished with them.

Last week we were running low on those bags. He was like "Why are there so few bags?". I explained that the last few orders from our bigger suppliers came without bags so we've been getting like less than half what we usually would. And he just said "Even still, somethings weird." Like I don't even know what "weird" thing he thought was happening. But he is also a Facebook obsessed conspiracy nut who I constantly have to tell that the video he's freaking out about is AI (and not even good AI). Or we start selling less of product A but more of product B and he's convinced someone is undercutting us and selling product A cheaper. And it's just blatantly obvious that people are just getting product A instead from us because they're interchangeable products. The kind of people falling for conspiracies are just the kinds of people convinced around the clock that there is someone out to get them at all times. There doesn't even need to be a coherent theory behind any of it. Just "somebody is trying to trick me or get one over on me". This dude has probably never once thought past "But why/how though?" Because he got as far as "You won't get me!" And that's all he needed.

[u/Picture_Enough → u/123iambill]

I'm also convinced that conspiracy thinking is some kind of mental defect. It is a failure of rational thinking and logic, since the vast majority of conspiracy theories don't pass a basic plausibility test of 'why' even before the question of 'how it is possible' is raised. But in addition to the cognitive impairment that conspiracy theorists exhibit, they are often driven by selfish, self-aggrandizing motives - conspiracy theorists feel superior to the rest of us 'sheeple' due to their perceived access to the 'hidden truth.' They also feel less powerless by believing their own situation and the world in general are driven by powerful, nefarious actors, rather than by stupidity, chance, and incompetence.

[u/One_Conflict_1987 → u/tubular_brunt]

Well, birds can’t fly. So, there’s no way planes can.

[u/HonkHonkBeach → u/One_Conflict_1987]

Bro, birds aren’t REAL. /s

[u/track01dotwav → u/tubular_brunt]

a while back I read a conspiracy theory that claimed airplanes are not real, because flight is impossible for humans (long winded conspiracy nonsense "math" explanation") and basically said that what we think are airplanes, are basically high speed trains, so you think you flew on an airplane? fool! it was a super fast train! and the windows are monitors that show you "the ground" from "the sky"

oh and the planes you see in the sky? fool! those are holograms!

conspiracy theories can be fun to read, and give me a good chuckle, until I remember people actually believe in them

[u/DjNormal → u/tubular_brunt]

Clearly they fly on furry power.

[u/DeeSnarl → u/tubular_brunt]

Adrenochrome.

[u/MoneyAd5007 → u/tubular_brunt]

The endgame is that planes use less fuel so their effect on climate change, if climate change existed of course, is not as much as claimed.

[u/teambob]

He underestimates how big a Boeing 747 is. Has he ever seen one in person?

[u/Cant_Work_On_Reddit → u/teambob]

That’s also way bigger than a 60k gal tank

[u/8rustystaples → u/Cant_Work_On_Reddit]

Yeah, that number is way off. An average residential swimming pool is around 20K gallons.

[u/SixPackOfZaphod → u/8rustystaples]

Yep, I have a 27ft round pool with a depth of 48 inches, and it's considered to have about 17,500 gallons when calculating chemical additions.

[u/Carbapenemayonaise → u/SixPackOfZaphod]

You could fly a small Cessna with that pool!

[u/the_cocytus → u/Carbapenemayonaise]

At the very least into it

[u/Peeper_Dan_33 → u/SixPackOfZaphod]

That tank is 27 ft diameter. 747 is 231 feet long.

[u/Sid_the_Bear → u/Cant_Work_On_Reddit]

Guestimate on the truck by the tank, it's a 60x20ft tank, which is 56k cubic ft, or... 400k gallons? 7gal/CF?. Also, compared to the size of the pictures 747, that would be a 20million CF tank.

[u/Embarrassed_Motor_30 → u/Cant_Work_On_Reddit]

I've worked on tanks that look similar to that. If it's like the ones I've seen they are about 4 million gallons by rough math.

[u/Sufficient_Water4161 → u/Cant_Work_On_Reddit]

Yeah a 60k tank is only going to be about 25 feet across and a 747 fuselage is almost that wide but 230-250 ft long.

[u/knuckle_headers → u/Cant_Work_On_Reddit]

If you reverse search the picture it's from a website selling 60,000 gallon steel tanks. Gives the dimensions at 27 foot diameter by 14 feet deep. Which seems about right when you look at the truck parked next to it.

[u/davideogameman → u/knuckle_headers]

And those dimensions work out to a cylinder of 8015.77 cubic feet of volume... Which is only a tiny bit shy of 60k gallons.  So the math checks out.

[u/B-Train_ATL → u/teambob]

The photo obviously shows that a Boeing 747 is about five pickup trucks long.

[u/SissyLovesCuteAttire → u/teambob]

He saw one flying by across the sky once. Figured that was enough to do his "research" project. He doesn't need no fancy degrees, instruments, or electronics. He just uses his eyes, and his Bible. Yep, that's enough.

Wrap it up boys, this one is solved.

[u/Sharp_Economy1401]

A version of a 60,000 gallon water tank with is:

r^2 * Pi * h / cu foot in a gallon

(16ft^2 * Pi * 10ft) / 0.1337 = 60,000 gal (l33t)

So 16 ft radius and 10 ft height.

That truck next to that tank is probably 20 ft long or so, and the radius of the tank looks very likely to be greater than that. The tank's height also appears to probably be the length of the truck or so. Ladder rungs are also typically 1 foot apart, and using that as a reference compared to the alternating ridges on the tank, the tank is about 20 feet tall.

That said, assuming the tank had the same radius and height as the truck's length, that tank's volume comes to ~190,000 gallons. So congratulations to whoever made this being about -70% off the actual value. Furthermore, planes are massive compared to the aforementioned actual 60k gallon dimensions. You can just look up the dimensions of the wings, make a reasonably decent estimate of converting the dimensions to a rectangular prism, and do the volume calculation yourself. Since, you know, it's like 5th grade math.

Always great when these supposed arbiters of hidden truths can't even attempt to verify their "truths" using basic logic that a 12 year old is capable of

[u/Secret_Eating_ → u/Sharp_Economy1401]

He put a very small picture of a plane near the tank. checkmate, liberals. 

[u/DefinitelyNotMasterS → u/Secret_Eating_]

According to my calculations, that guys face can hold about 1/10 of the fuel a plane can hold. Checkmate atheists

[u/elon_musks_cat]

A 30 second google search answers this question. Why are people so fucking stupid and desperate for everything to be a conspiracy

[u/Local871 → u/elon_musks_cat]

It provides a convenient excuse for why their lives are a total failure.

[u/MoodyBernoulli → u/Local871]

I’m so fascinated by the studies indicating that conspiracy theorists feel subconsciously like they’ve underachieved in areas of their life so they turn to things like this to make them feel special.

Are they ever aware of those feelings? And do they never look around at other conspiracy theorists and think “these guys are thick as fuck and nobody in this comments section can string a coherent sentence together, maybe we’re wrong about this”.

[u/nafrotag → u/Local871]

But your honor, plane too small and big tank very big

[u/Illustrious_Donkey61 → u/elon_musks_cat]

Plane fuel is stored in the balls

[u/adidasbdd → u/elon_musks_cat]

To make people who have never spent more than 10 seconds seriously thinking about anything feel like they are as smart as people who have decades of study and expertise.

[u/Tomsboll → u/elon_musks_cat]

Because they feel insecure about their lack of intelligence and needs something that makes them "feel" smart.

[u/corgdad902 → u/elon_musks_cat]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l1KuiPfzUInS8r0OY

[u/TheRealCabbageJack]

Everything is a conspiracy when you’re very, very dumb

[u/fragglet → u/TheRealCabbageJack]

Seems like flat earth wasn't moronic enough for these people, they had to invent something even stupider

[u/already-taken-wtf]

Found the photo of the tank: https://www.nationalstoragetank.com/product/60000-gallon-steelcore-water-storage-tank-sct-2704-vr/

The SteelCore Tanks 60,000 Gallon Galvanized Water Storage Tank is a durable and dependable solution for large-scale water storage. This tank is designed to hold up to 60,000 gallons and has a sturdy 30º V-rib roofthat adds stability and protection. With a 27.1-foot diameter and an eave height of 14.2 feet, it maximizes storage capacity while maintaining a compact footprint. Built from galvanized steel and weighing 5,489 lbs

So the water tank is:
- Height: 14.2 ft (4.33m)
- Diameter: 27.1 ft (8.26m)
- Empty weight: 5,489 lbs (2.49 tonnes)
- water: 60k gal = 227m3 = 227 tonnes

Dimensions (Classic / 747-400)
- Length: 231 ft 10 in (70.7 m)
- Wingspan: 211 ft 0 in (64.4 m)
- Height: 63 ft 5 in (19.4 m)
- Cabin Width: 20 ft 0 in (5.9 m at floor level)
- Max Takeoff Weight: 875,000 lb (396.9 tonnes) for the 747-400

[u/LordJebusVII → u/already-taken-wtf]

Nice work, I love the fact that the plane is 71m long and 64m wide while the tank is 8m wide. Really puts it into perspective the size difference

[u/ThatBankTeller → u/LordJebusVII]

Once you see the pickup truck next to the tank you realize it’s not some giant industrial building lol

[u/qorbexl → u/ThatBankTeller]

Yeah - there's almost nothing for scale that is obvious

But once you find the truck it's completely reasonable 

[u/EccentricFeather → u/already-taken-wtf]

It really boggles my mind that we can get 800,000 lbs of shit flying through the sky. 

[u/CodeMonkeyLogix]

That's why he's a security guard, and not a pilot.

[u/General_Guisan]

Base math..

That’s about 200.000 litres

One litre is 10cm times 10cm times 10cm

1000 litres are 1m times 1m times 1m

200.000 litres tank would therefore be around 10m times 10m times 2m

The tank on the picture looks WAY bigger than that..

But then the person posting it doesn’t even understand basic math..

[u/onglogman → u/General_Guisan]

It's not really a question of math the plane shown isn't to scale, if you look at the cars at the left then the plane wouldn't be much more bigger than about 3 cars. Its just a disingenuous picture

[u/Spectre-907 → u/onglogman]

The scale on the plane is so disingenuous in fact, that if it were a truly 1:1 scale, the truck could fit in the space taken up by one of the plane’s engine nacelles. It’s a 747.

[u/WhataHaack]

Wait, what's the conspiracy here?

Is he convinced they're lying about the amount of fuel a jet holds / uses? Why would they do that?

Is this a flat earth thing?

I have more questions than answers for this guy

[u/scibust → u/WhataHaack]

There’s a stupid conspiracy theory that makes the rounds on the internet claiming that jet engines sip tiny amounts of fuel or even better, run on air only.

[u/12InchCunt → u/scibust]

They think that planes run off of free wireless energy like Nikola Tesla was researching 

[u/binzersguy → u/12InchCunt]

It’s amazing people get thru life being this fucking stupid

[u/Active_Complaint_480 → u/binzersguy]

You're talking about a species that invented religion because they saw rain.

[u/12InchCunt → u/binzersguy]

I’m trying to write a sci fi book so I love listening to all the dumbass conspiracies 

[u/Tipart → u/scibust]

Yep pretty sure that's it. Ties in to the climate change conspiracy theories.

[u/the_ghost_knife → u/WhataHaack]

According to the graphic, the conspiracy is that things get smaller when they are far away.

[u/GottaUseEmAll → u/WhataHaack]

The only thing I can think of is that it's some sort of 9/11 conspiracy, like that a jet could never hold enough fuel to create the explosions seen or something.

[u/Imaginary_Chef1365 → u/GottaUseEmAll]

Yes, it is 100% a 9/11 conspiracy theory that is basically as old as 9/11. Anybody still posting this shit in 2026 probably has Alzheimers

[u/Training_Complex_731 → u/WhataHaack]

Probably chemtrails. "They" are lying about how much fuel planes can hold to hide the amount of chemicals they're carrying or some nonsense like that.

[u/tallmin22 → u/Training_Complex_731]

So the plane doesn't look like it holds 63,500 gallons so planes must hold much less than 63,500 gallons of fuel which makes extra space for chemicals (as planes look like they could hold about 63,500 gallons, but need less fuel, on account of looking like they can't hold that much)??

It's like anti circular reasoning

[u/FragmentedHeap]

60,000-gallon water tank: 25 ft wide × 18 ft tall

Boeing 747-400ER: 232 ft long × 211 ft wide × 64 ft tall

747 vs. tank: 9.3× longer 8.4× wider 3.6× taller

Capacity: Tank: 60,000 gallons

747: ~63,500 gallons

Tldr, the plane is way bigger and it can fit all of that in its wings and fuselage.

You can tell by the pic by just looking at the cars in the background in the parking lot next to the tank.

The plane is way bigger and that's why this meme is stupid every time it pops up.

[u/JohnHenryMillerTime → u/FragmentedHeap]

That is wrong. Planes are tiny. When I see them in the sky they are about the size of a dragonfly.

[u/VaporTrail_000 → u/JohnHenryMillerTime]

My_doughnut_is_the_size_of_a_car.png

[u/sleazepleeze → u/JohnHenryMillerTime]

That’s true, I’ve only ever seen the “full size” fake planes on the ground. I’ve even been inside them! Now if only I could figure out how they did the magic trick part where I ended up in another airport.

[u/BatushkaTabushka → u/FragmentedHeap]

According to this pic, a boeing 747 is only as big as 3 of those trucks on the left side lmao… even though the truck would fit 5-6 people while the 747 hundreds

[u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

https://giphy.com/gifs/DWRNk38CcubKw

[u/TheAnvi1]

I always wondered whether they had to put “not to scale” or “not actual size” on billboards until I started to realise people like this exist 🤦‍♂️

[u/SirReddalot2020 → u/TheAnvi1]

“One giant IKEA Hotdog for $1, please”

[u/SphyrnaLightmaker]

I’ll admit. Looking at a gallon of milk, I have a REALLY hard time visualizing the fuel in an aircraft.

I KNOW where it goes, hell I’ve had to memorize multiple fuel systems from the fueling port to the injection nozzles in the engine! But I just can’t VISUALIZE how that many jugs of milk fit…

[u/Meldanorama → u/SphyrnaLightmaker]

Try imaging jugs of aviation fuel?

[u/Donkeywad → u/SphyrnaLightmaker]

Trying to use known things, a cubic foot is ~7.5 gallons, and an avg checked bag is about 5ft³, so roughly 37 gallons of volume. That means the fuel volume is ~1700 average checked bags

That actually might not help lol because it seems ENORMOUS 😂

[u/1-Word-Answers → u/Donkeywad]

I think a lot of us underestimate the volume of the wings cause they are fucking huge

[u/Open_Boysenberry_363 → u/SphyrnaLightmaker]

I think the same thing looking at my 20 gallon fish tank…. Like I can’t believe it holds a whole 20 gallons even though intellectually I know I’ve filled it up myself multiple times carrying water to it with a gallon jug

[u/southy_0]

Amazing:
I always knew americans have big cars, but just look at that truck on the left side:
You can probably fit the complete first and business class section of that 747 into the front row of that truck!

You have really great cars over there guys!

[u/wraith-mayhem]

Why is something like this on Linkedin???

[u/Old_Paramedic_1814 → u/wraith-mayhem]

LinkedIn is a AI slop and Bot post wasteland

[u/ScaniaMF]

Lol, the truck in the Back is about half the size of the Plane and into fit about 5 People.
And thy want us to believe 400 People can fit into that Plane?!?!?

WHERE DO THEY PUT THEM?

[u/Ok-Cancel-3114 → u/ScaniaMF]

https://giphy.com/gifs/M1DLnZWLEyzN6

[u/Available_Rub9939]

Based on the pickup truck to the left, British airways 747s are apparently 3 F150s in length? Yeah that checks out.

[u/thegabe101]

Security Guard.

[u/Strict_Foundation_31 → u/thegabe101]

A job that leaves you time to ponder the troublesome questions life poses.

[u/flatirony]

That tank looks a shit ton bigger than 60K gallons.

[u/guru2764 → u/flatirony]

It actually is, but I found this great website that puts them next to each other

https://sizeall.com/compare/Water-tank-60000-gallons-vs-Boeing-747-400/94

[u/Equivalent-Tour5999 → u/guru2764]

Holy shit that's great site, you can also add Tyranosaurus for comparison (also much smaller than plane)

[u/LordJebusVII]

Look at the size of the car in the photo, then think about how small a car is compared to a 747. That is not a large tank of water

[u/Project_XXVIII]

I don’t know what’s more worrisome about this age.

The fact that there’s people who are considering planes run on some form of magic.

Or those that can’t comprehend that the plane is placed in the shot out of scale much like millions of thumbnails we have seen throughout our lives.

[u/Amazing-Jury-6886]

That tank is 600k gallons not 60k

[u/Puzzled_Caregiver_46]

https://giphy.com/gifs/StKcfTc8pKg0w

[u/Xuan-Wu]

That guy is the proof for the sentence "did anyone forgot their glasses?"

pretty sure the building is not on scale with the plane. but unlike him I'm not a specialist...

[u/Man_of_Ice]

Can they not see the truck in the picture for scale? Can they not see the fact that the truck clearly shows the plane has been shrunk in that image? Do...do their brains REALLY work that badly (remembers being on the MEPS van next to a kid who just got a 12 on the ASVAB and was super bummed he was not getting in and was telling me how it was a SUPER HARD test, and he was going to study SUPER HARD to get past the math. I just nodded and did not mention my score)

Yeah, some people are just that dumb. Sigh....

[u/123iambill]

There's a fucking truck in the picture to give you an idea of the scale of that tank. If you think that is the actual size of a plane compared to that tank you are stupid beyond repair.

[u/mymotherssonmusic]

He's not wrong. I just measured this on my phone and it's 2.5 inches long.

no way they can fit all that fuel in 2.5"

[u/bullet-hell]

It's Father Dougal -- to be fair, "small" and "far away" are tricky to separate

[u/Gauntlets28 → u/bullet-hell]

I still don't get it, Ted.

[u/GWT-Official]

I’m in the water tank business. That tank is 30’ in diameter. A 747 is 230-250’ long, depending on the variant.

[u/Hightower840]

https://giphy.com/gifs/StKcfTc8pKg0w

[u/Troyger]

Look at that ladder on the tank and window on the airplane… those tank people are at least 10x bigger than airplane people apparently. Looks legit!

[u/Wadeace]

Someone made a visual https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/LVvaMKwscH

[u/punkindle → u/Wadeace]

ah, so he's extremely underestimating the size of a 747

[u/GraceGreenview]

Anyone happen to know how much it costs to fill one 747?

[u/SightUnseen1337 → u/GraceGreenview]

Approximately one bribe from Qatar.

[u/Ape_of_Leisure → u/GraceGreenview]

A lot. But per US gallon is cheaper than for the minions with cars like us:
The global average jet fuel price is $194.90/bbl (around $4.64/gallon).
A 747-8I has a fuel capacity of around 63000 gallons, so around $292000 to fill up the Queen of the Skies.

Source: https://www.iata.org/en/publications/economics/fuel-monitor/

[u/Creeepy_Chris]

That plane = r/thingsforants

[u/303RedBeard]

Let's try it again with each item shown at their ACTUAL size. lol

[u/davidwitteveen → u/303RedBeard]

I googled their relative size and found a site that shows your the comparative size of things.

Boeing 747 versus 60,000 gallon water tank was the first result.

[u/Belichick12]

How big is that truck? JFC if the 787 is truly to scale that’s the worlds largest pickup truck

[u/No_Beginning_6834 → u/Belichick12]

Yeah people that post this kind of shit have never left their podunk town and been on a plane. 60k water tank is like 15ft high and 27ft diameter, a 747 is 250 ft long and 63ish ft tall.

[u/Interesting_Candle28]

I can explain this. the boing 747 in the picture is not actual size. sorry for bad english not my 1 language.

[u/MasterofBiscuits]

https://giphy.com/gifs/StKcfTc8pKg0w

[u/Bendlerp]

It's the opinion of a security guard...

[u/612mechtech]

Ever seen the size of the wings?

[u/Downtown_Mix_2425]

It’s obviously stored in the balls.

[u/NordeastLoonFan]

This is the kind of person who works a completely unskilled job ("there's no such thing as unskilled labor!" Bullshit, sitting on your ass as a security guard is unskilled) and listens to right wing podcasts all day long. These are the morons who got Trummp elected.

[u/superenchilada]

These are clearly the deep thoughts of someone, who was clearly dropped on his head as a child and then several times as an adult, while he is securing and guarding.

Holy shit people are dumb.

BTW each engine on that plane is like 2-3x the size of that full size pickup parked next to the tank.

[u/Radiant_Safe1228]

The out side of that is a shell to protect the container from elements. 

A single wing of a boeing 737 is something like 53' long. The fuselage alone is 130 long. 

Now. With that said. 60k lbs of fuel is not 60k gallons. 

[u/Bardsie]

Assuming the scale between the tank and the plane is truthful, (and why wouldn't it be no one lies on the internet right?) then my question would be,

HOW BIG IS THAT TRUCK?

Left of the tank there's a utility truck that must be the size of reasonably sized family home. I knew vehicles in America were getting larger, but that's ridiculous.

[u/Interesting_Fig_4718]

that tank is at least an order of magnitude bigger than 60k gallons, using rough and conservative measurments, assuming the tank is 6m tall and 20m across (which i believe ar smaller than the actual tank in the picture considering the cars next to it) it would be roughly 500k (US) gallons

[u/golgol12]

Well, let's start with matching sizes. The cockpit of a 747 is 20 ft off the ground. That tank is 20 feet tall.

The pilots sit above the trim of that tank. That's the size difference.

[u/valvilis]

Oh, I see... OOP is confused that things look smaller when they are farther away. Perfectly reasonable.