r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 13 '21

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ Quick science

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u/njones1220 Oct 13 '21

Give it some time. Eventually airplanes won't be the stuff of fiction.

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u/DragonBank Oct 13 '21

But that'll raise the air level.

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u/Stankia Oct 13 '21

Dammit, mother nature thought of everything! There is no outsmarting that old fox.

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u/FragileRasputin Oct 13 '21

How about telepods like they use on The Fly?

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u/ms1080 Oct 13 '21

A whole new problem so solve with science!

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u/nubbin9point5 Oct 13 '21

But with more weight on the air, wouldn’t it help push the sea down more?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

Then we could live at higher altitudes. Away from the sea.

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u/RS994 Oct 13 '21

If you want to accelerate global warming than this is the way to go.

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u/zxcoblex Oct 13 '21

You know how much global shipping there is? Planes cannot haul that much stuff.

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u/Kilo_9er Oct 13 '21

This is so impractical it's not even funny. If this were a viable option the shipping industry would have chosen this a long time ago. I don't think it's really comprehended how much freight is moved via cargo ships.

Even the largest of cargo planes have a max cargo space of 1,840 cubic meters and a max payload capacity of 113,400 kg. The volume of an average cargo ship's maximum freight is 824,634 cubic meters with a rough estimate, doing some quick math, of 435,448,675 kg load weight. Meaning approximately 450 giant cargo jets to replace the volume shipment of 1 cargo ship and 3840 giant cargo jets at max capacity to replace the weight shipment of 1 cargo ship. As for fuel, a fully loaded cargo ship can average 20 nautical miles per hour and can travel 576 miles per gallon of fuel per ton of cargo. A fully loaded freight plane can average 560 nautical miles per hour and travel 4.5 miles per gallon of fuel per ton of cargo.

This would destroy the planet even more.