The Happy Scientist

 JrzyTmata wrote:  


They did a more realistic job of "fake flying" in my 8th grade school production of "Peter Pan" than these guys.

 miamizsun wrote: 
and genuine bullsh*t is more of an art than a science.

genuine science ain't no bullsh*t

 oldslabsides wrote: 
he loves America!

 JrzyTmata wrote: 

is that Sean?

 aflanigan wrote: 

 oldslabsides wrote: 

Are you genuinely looking for an explanation, or are you just trying to start a lab fight?



It's a matter of relative size and mass.  Ponder this:  A bottle rocket expels gas and swiftly propels itself up to the sky.

You expel gas and go nowhere (and repel your friends away).

 oldslabsides wrote: 
It's just the perversity of the universe.  It's a Law of Thermodynamics or something, and it probably is just entropy, anyway. 

Anything perverse has something to do with thermodynamics, because Sadi Carnot, J Willard Gibbs, Kelvin, Helmholtz, and Clausius were all perverts. 

Now quit whining and take your pain.

Um, yeah...

Like, how come on the merry-go-round down at the playground when I was a kid, when you got the thing spinning it threw you off, but when the earth spins it sucks you down onto it?  Why is that?  They say it's that like, gravity thing but I dunno.  I think that's bullsh*t.  Yeah.