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- Mon Jun 16, 2003 6:43 pm
#82775
Right, for some reason I got thinking about greek mythology today on my walk home from work. How stupid are those stories? How stupid did the people who made them up think we are?
Let's take an example - the story about Icarus. For those of you who don't know (you uneducated cretins) Icarus was the bloke who made himself wings (really) and flew too close to the sun, so his wings melted and he fell to his death.
So, he made himself some wings did he? Out of feathers and glue? Just how big were these wings exactly? They'd have had to be pretty * huge to get a fully grown man off the ground. Bear in mind he strapped these wings to his arms, they'd have been pretty heavy, so how did he lift them (and let's not forget that the extra weight has to be lifted into the air also).
Secondly, he flew close enough to the sun that his glue melted. HOW * FAR DID HE FLY????? Let's not forget the sun is 93,000,000 miles away. He must have flown a fair old way to get close enough for his glue to melt - let's face it, if the sun was strong enough to melt his glue a few thousand miles away from Earth, it would have been able to melt the glue when he was on Earth, so he'd never have got off the ground!
Even if we assume a conservative estimate and say he was 10,000 miles away before the sun started to melt the glue, how long must that have taken? A good few hours by my reckoning. Hardly likely given the fact he's carrying his weight plus the weight of his massive feather and glue wings.
In conclusion, stupid stupid story.
I need to get out more.
Let's take an example - the story about Icarus. For those of you who don't know (you uneducated cretins) Icarus was the bloke who made himself wings (really) and flew too close to the sun, so his wings melted and he fell to his death.
So, he made himself some wings did he? Out of feathers and glue? Just how big were these wings exactly? They'd have had to be pretty * huge to get a fully grown man off the ground. Bear in mind he strapped these wings to his arms, they'd have been pretty heavy, so how did he lift them (and let's not forget that the extra weight has to be lifted into the air also).
Secondly, he flew close enough to the sun that his glue melted. HOW * FAR DID HE FLY????? Let's not forget the sun is 93,000,000 miles away. He must have flown a fair old way to get close enough for his glue to melt - let's face it, if the sun was strong enough to melt his glue a few thousand miles away from Earth, it would have been able to melt the glue when he was on Earth, so he'd never have got off the ground!
Even if we assume a conservative estimate and say he was 10,000 miles away before the sun started to melt the glue, how long must that have taken? A good few hours by my reckoning. Hardly likely given the fact he's carrying his weight plus the weight of his massive feather and glue wings.
In conclusion, stupid stupid story.
I need to get out more.
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