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minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down15·3 days agoIf only planes could last as long as birds
minus-squareLembot_0004@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 days agoBirds live 10-20 years.
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down10·3 days ago The oldest recorded flamingo lived to be 83 years old.
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThe oldest still-flying plane is the Bleriot XI from 1909. That’s 116 years now.
minus-squareexu@feditown.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoPathetic, planes can do up to 116 years and counting Wikipedia Concidentally the first flight across the English Channel happend with this plane model 116 years ago tomorrow. Reasonable people use average age, mathematicians use median for such comparisons.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days agoI like the implication that mathematicians are not reasonable people.
minus-squareRailcar8095@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoThey are the one who thought “we don’t have enough numbers” and invented imaginary ones.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agowhat if I don’t have an imagination? can I not count? have I forgotten maths?!
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoWell, have you talked to them?
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down7·3 days agoTo be fair they have had extra special attention and are barely planes by modern standards
minus-squareJiminaMann@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoOld cars still kinda work Unless you’re trying to compare a flightless bird to a flying machine
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoFlamingoes are not flightless…
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoThere’s probably a parrot older than that, somewhere.
minus-squarebeemikeoak@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoOops…sorry! https://media.tenor.com/mK0CV18OzXsAAAAM/monty-python-dead-parrot.gif
If only planes could last as long as birds
Birds live 10-20 years.
The oldest still-flying plane is the Bleriot XI from 1909. That’s 116 years now.
Pathetic, planes can do up to 116 years and counting Wikipedia
Concidentally the first flight across the English Channel happend with this plane model 116 years ago tomorrow.
Reasonable people use average age, mathematicians use median for such comparisons.
I like the implication that mathematicians are not reasonable people.
They are the one who thought “we don’t have enough numbers” and invented imaginary ones.
what if I don’t have an imagination? can I not count?
have I forgotten maths?!
Well, have you talked to them?
To be fair they have had extra special attention and are barely planes by modern standards
Old cars still kinda work
Unless you’re trying to compare a flightless bird to a flying machine
Flamingoes are not flightless…
There’s probably a parrot older than that, somewhere.
Oops…sorry!
https://media.tenor.com/mK0CV18OzXsAAAAM/monty-python-dead-parrot.gif