@[email protected]M to A sub for [email protected]English • 28 days agoBreak out the sea shanties, lads and lasses!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1310arrow-down12
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish26•27 days ago“Giant kites” is indeed how an alien, or a child, might describe a sail.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish31•27 days agoOnly if they don’t realize that kites are actually a real propulsion method distinct from sails. Kite propelled ships look nothing like sailing ships.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•27 days agoNonsense, they clearly mean to leash giant birds of prey to the ship and have it pulled by a team of them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•27 days agoThat’s what they’re doing to cut emissions from planes, dummy. Cars are going to use horses.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish24•edit-227 days agoFor once the article title is quite accurate, when they say “giant kite” they means something like that:
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•27 days agoAnd it powers an engine, it doesn’t pull the boat
“Giant kites” is indeed how an alien, or a child, might describe a sail.
Only if they don’t realize that kites are actually a real propulsion method distinct from sails. Kite propelled ships look nothing like sailing ships.
Nonsense, they clearly mean to leash giant birds of prey to the ship and have it pulled by a team of them.
That’s what they’re doing to cut emissions from planes, dummy. Cars are going to use horses.
And ships dolphins?
And spacecraft by teams of tardigrades
Dugongs. They’re more majestic.
For once the article title is quite accurate, when they say “giant kite” they means something like that:
And it powers an engine, it doesn’t pull the boat
No, it does pull the boat like a sail.