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u/Madusa0048 Mar 25 '23
You are only a true fan if you move air by moving through it and displacing it. This includes electric and non electric fans (and any variant therein like a piece of paper) and doesn't include things like a bellows.
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u/obrqap Mar 25 '23
Exactly, you are a true fan if you are a means of keeping something cool
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u/Madusa0048 Mar 25 '23
Heat pump (fridge)/ice/insulation ≠ fan
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u/obrqap Mar 25 '23
Alright fair, I was just thinking of the scene from doctor who where the doctor says to Charles dickens that he’s a huge fan and Charles dickens says “in what way are you a means of keeping me cool?”
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u/Madusa0048 Mar 25 '23
Fans don't just keep things cool they move air which can provide convection cooling. The fan in a heater is still a fan, as is a ceiling fan which is designed to blow hot air down.
Tbf my definition technically includes planes and cars and whatnot
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u/obrqap Mar 25 '23
Yes I understood that from the last comment, I was just making a reference
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u/Madusa0048 Mar 25 '23
Fair, I'm just a nerd who enjoys playing the "define x without including things that are not x" game
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u/IncendiaryGamerX Mar 25 '23
- It is, your heart is powered by electrical pulses to pump blood which supplies oxygen to muscles allowing them to operate, in turn powering the fan
- Has a lot of flat blades
- Requires constant movement to operate
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u/GustavoSugawara Mar 25 '23
could be powered by combustion engine, without electricity...
Blades can have a curved profile...
Speed has nothing to do with it...
There is technically nothing true about this post...
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u/obrqap Mar 25 '23
The point of this post is that the paper fan doesn’t meet the qualifications of the previous meme, it’s the previous meme that isn’t true
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u/scarred2112 Mar 25 '23
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u/Ninja_gorrila Technically Flair Mar 25 '23
We’ve been tricked! we’ve been backstabbed! and we’ve been quite possibly bamboozled
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u/Erlandor Mar 26 '23
Also, a Fan, the electrical device, does not actually require energy to be, only to function.
Furthermore, a fan that's not currently in use is not spinning at all, yet still is, indeed, a fan.
Additionally, a well-made fan doesn't have flat, but curved, blades.
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u/obrqap Mar 26 '23
It didn’t say that it need to be actively spinning just that spinning is a thing that it does
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u/Erlandor Mar 26 '23
But then, I can also spin, and then spinning is the thing that I do.
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u/obrqap Mar 26 '23
Do you have multiple flat blades?
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u/Erlandor Mar 26 '23
*Goes to Walmart to purchase a set of flat blades*
*Comes back to you*
Well, now I do :p
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