Are they flying? We’ll never know

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Do fish think of water just as little as we think of the air? edit: changed a g to a k

  • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The main difference between swimming and flying is basically just how compressible the fluid you’re moving through is, so it’s not that different really. Although I guess you can fly through space so my attempt to sound clever kind of falls through, huh?

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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      3 hours ago

      Just look at the compression in 3D (resistance to existing motion) instead of just in an up/down 2D plane and your analogy still works, even in space.