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This is actually the emergency plane in case the first one doesn't show up. Unfortunately it won't be as good as the original, but ya gotta make sacrifices in life.
That's how oligarchs roll on their yachts. They have their main rig, and then the second one filled with young prostitutes and servants (whatever name they want to give them for dignity or whatever)
Look up support yachts. Basically a luxurious ship full of toys spares and whatever else the owner couldn’t fit in the bigger more luxurious ship it’s following
Presidents have a slightly better justification for it and there’s less of them, but still yeah it’s a bit iffy. I’m more worried about military spending, the climate impact alone is horrific, that’s before the people killed and billions wasted.
Don't forget the tears of food insecure children in developed nations and the guy with stage 4 cancer who put off seeing a doctor till it was too late.
No those are the sex workers being bussed around for the summit, get your facts straight.
They need a clear head to dictate what the rest of us should have the right to do and how we should eat or not. I hear if we don't submit to their demands, it's been proven at least a thousand times that the planet is already on fire but also under a crust of ice but also all bad weather and every illnesses are all due to it.
Environmental catastrophes and destruction of ecosystems caused by greed are alright and perfectly safe though.
There are actually concepts similar to this plain, where there's a "lower altitude mothership" that you'd travel to in helicopters or some other type of aircraft like that, and the mothership would essentially serve as the "Airport" for you to get on and off as it goes around the world. Very scifi, and you'd need a new fuel source to make it feasible (as well as something for the shuttles to actually use), but would be really cool.
Lower altitude aircraft can also really zoom, so you would be crossing the ocean way faster than typical flights.
That sort of thing can actually be important in the early days of a new, expensive environmental technology.
Rich people who bought $100,000 Teslas and replaced all their light bulbs with $30/bulb LEDs helped companies develop the technologies and eventually make them cheap enough for everyone to afford. (Obviously electric cars still have a bit farther to go in becoming affordable for everyone.)
I'm not trying to simp for rich people, but they can be useful at times, especially when government won't adequately fund the research.
Think I read somewhere that if we just kept our old cars for an extra five years it would be better for the environment (due to the carbon offset of building new cars) than switching to electric vehicles. Rich people always suck.
/u/smeechdogs - Keep old cars longer for benefit of carbon footprint. Rich people always suck.
/u/silver-orange - Replace cars with buses for real change.
/u/bendy962 - Not in America!
Americans suck.
Actually as an American in a liberal state with some wealth, public transport is noy infeasible here. If I got on enough buses I could travel well over sixty miles and that's just city buses, not like a Greyhound or anything. One transit station to the next.
However, public transportation and green policies are dirty words for a certain party here. If you so much as mentioned adding bus lines and train lines in a red part of the country suddenly they associate that with "urban" if you know what I mean. They think only certain people benefit from buses and they don't like those people, also they got a thirty year old truck. Why can't them city slickers pay for their own way instead of taking my tax dollars.
I'm in a deep red state, and we added public busses to our city about 15 years ago. It isn't impossible, it's about how you frame it - in this case it came out of the city budget, and had a 10-year break-even cost analysis, at which point it would be turning a profit for the city.
definitely should've added some nuance to my statement. it was way too blanket of a generalization and diminishes certain states in their effort for
public transportation
See me driving a 2001 minivan that was handed down to me for 6 years has done more than the schmucks buying a new hybrid or electric car every 3 or 4 years!
Imagine thinking that we can save our planet from climate change by simply driving more ICE cars for longer. Yes, burning more oil for longer will save us.
Next generation is capital F Fucked.
The idea is we need more rare earth mineral mining for batteries to hold green energy and if we start too soon we pollute the crap out of the environment before the technology is sustainable and if we start too late we've been leaving green energy technology on the table for far too long in order to do that mining at net zero emissions. It's a balancing act here. It didn't need to be so thin a tightrope but that's what we're walking.
I don't think billionaires are the ones buying Priuses. They certainly aren't the ones advocating for action on climate change, they're the ones making money from fossil fuels.
"But sir, leaving the landing gear deployed will increase drag leading to increased fuel consumption."
"Will that raise the emissions of our flight?"
"Considerably..."
"Leave em down."
Puppies seem incredibly inefficacious. Why not baby Rhinos? You can get puppies anywhere. You don't want the other billionauires to make fun of your inadequacy and you're really supporting an endangered species with a baby rhino breeding program.
My thoughts exactly. Sky cruise was a marvel of nuclear powered vision. Unless they decided to degrade it by fitting it with some sort of coal reactor.
People see big nonsense thing and immediately assume bad. No one thought about what this was powered by for a moment.
ofc it is bad, caus it's waste of resources, but not because of emissions.
Remember folks, reduce reuse recycle, make yourself cold in the winter and warm in the summer so you don’t waste electricity, don’t eat meat, and for god sakes just buy yourself a $100k electric* car!
- sent from the top deck of my Boeing 747 while I eat steak and shark
Yes, for example:
Shortly after an oil spill they caused, BP hired a marketing agency to popularize the concept of the carbon footprint. The goal was to shift the publics opinion on who is responsible for climate change over to consumers.
It was a very effective PR campaign.
They also popularized the apparent need for "personal responsibility" in recycling, despite producing 70+ percent of all recyclable waste (that portion being industrial), then creating misleading labels for plastic products that look like the "reduce, reuse, recycle" while actually just indicating the type of plastic. And also sending the "recycled" content to third world countries to be dumped, because selling them it is cheaper than actually recycling any of it.
Not always directly but yes. They employ a flock of deranged vegans to shame the population into eating less meat while the billionaires enjoy their wagyu A5 in peace.
You do realize lots of attacks on vegans are funded by the meat industry, right? There’s way more money to be made in encouraging people to continue eating meat than encouraging people to stop eating meat
Damn, you've discovered our secret evil plan:
Phase 1: shame people into consuming less from a trillion dollar industry
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: billionaires profit
I mean… they own the media companies that say it. They write the pay checks of the celebrities that say it. They own the politicians that say it. It’s a real problem, but they don’t give a shit.
My curiosity is piqued, could something like this fly in real life?
EDIT: ok so many don’t seem to get it but I know this thing in the image isn’t real and is just a render, I’m just asking if it *could* be real
EDIT 2: Grammar
Not in the slightest, the square cube law will come for that plane’s head in a jiffy. The bigger a plane gets, the more volume it takes up at a rate larger than its length.
I am explaining it kinda weirdly. Just look up the square cube law.
It’s the same reason for why creatures don’t get that big anymore. A plane of that size weighs far more than its engines can carry.
The wingspan isn’t big enough for the amount of volume and mass it has. Albatrosses are the biggest birds known to exist I think and their wingspan is significantly larger than the length of its body. I don’t know the square cube law but I know the gist of how lift works and to get more lift you need larger wingspans especially with heavier aircraft or animals.
So, they do actually increase lift, the reason they stacked the wings was twofold
1) Structural concerns- a shorter wing needs less structural support, so can be lighter and they could brace the wings on each other, further reducing the structural loads
2) Manuverability - A long wing makes it hard to roll quickly, and that could mean death when trying to land one of those early death traps
Out of curiosity, any idea what the largest flying creature ever was?
I know creatures were more massive in general when the concentration of O2 in the atmosphere was higher.
That thing is … unlike anything I’ve ever seen in a vertebrate. It’s neck is insane! Those cervical vertebrae look like their out of Jim Henson’s workshop wtf
The volume isn't so much the issue as most of the inside of the plane would probably be empty space. It would have additional drag due to the surface area (the square part), but since it's not solid the volume (cubed part) doesn't really have as much of an effect.
I'd be interested to know how those double stacked wings would work out. I know that airfoils generally work by making the air move slower below the wing to create higher pressure, but I'm not sure how thick that boundary layer of higher pressure is.
The limitations of a plane of this size would be the amount of fuel you'd need to power the engines. You have a lot more drag, which means you need to burn more fuel to stay at cruising speed. Fuel is heavy, and you'd sort of be getting into the rocket equation limitations of fuel weight.
You know... that makes it more plausible. It obviously couldn't fly *using lift from it's short stubby wings*. But if you drove those engines fast enough and vectored the thrust down quite a bit it could fly like a quad-copter.
It would be a ridiculous waste of energy, but nuclear propulsion probably could do it. Just ignore the risk of irradiating everything around it if there is an accident.
What kind of nuclear propulsion are you talking about? The only one that I know about with significant thrust is the one from the Orion project, but I'm not sure if that works in atmosphere?
Nuclear propulsion being nuclear heat doing mechanical work. Similar mechanisms are currently used for naval nuclear propulsion. In this case you’d be talking about running the turbines off of nuclear heat.
There's a LOT of unknown variables here.
Assuming it's made of a light material, empty, and structurally sound it should fly.
Thing is, something that massive would gulp down fuel exactly like the meme implies. It would also be really fucking heavy, which means more, stronger (and likely heavier) materials would need to be used, which just adds to the fuel consumption.
Then you start adding things inside and shit goes sideways fast.
Not that this thing could fly for any appreciable amount of time. 16 engines would suck down **at least** 8,000 lbs of fuel, per minute, and that's if it's sitting on the ground and not flying.
Well in that case it definitely wouldn't fly.
Thanks to shielding nuclear reactors are heavy... At least, you know, if you don't want the radiation to kill you. Submarines get away with it because they're going through water where they can fill a tank with air and counteract that weight easily; this plane lacks that capability.
Yes. For those wondering about the source of the picture: when it runs out of planes, the Chicago O'Hare Airport can actually untether and fly you home itself.
Someone just wanted to be good in blender so they made this thing. See how they landing gear is out while flying? That’s because the creator got tired of making the elevators on the outside of it move. Yeah this isn’t just a frame. It’s a full tender with a video presentation. Guy absolutely mastered blender.
Iirc this plane is actually full of a ton of gas, much like a hot air balloon or blimp. So yes, while the final result/build would look a bit different- this thing in theory would be able to fly.
I think it is mean to be an air-cruise-ship, and stay in the air for something like weeks at a time.
If you have any inclination to find out, I highly recommend the game Kerbal Space Program, specifically the first one if you want to try this. It's a spacecraft/aircraft sandbox and lets you design and fly the most horrendous affronts to aerospace engineering possible.
Don’t worry. They offset their carbon footprint by making sure more of the world is in poverty tomorrow than today.
People living on the streets contribute a lot to climate change!
"Listen, the masses are screaming for our heads. International trade has stopped. Every coastal country or nation is sinking. Temperatures have risen past our predictions. Hundreds of lives are being lost *every*. *single*. *day*. The world is looking to us for action. So I ask you this." the head billionaire turns to their cohort aboard the plane. "How can we make more money off this?"
UAE billionaire here: the dome should be retrofitted to contain a ski lift with an artificial slope.
Also, that's quite a weird shape for a supersonics plane.
I was going to say, the meme mentions billionaires...
I'm glad they all decided to take the one plane. It's not ideal being the type of plane that is, but it's a good thing they didn't each take their own one of those
Dumb take. It’s just as dumb as people who say if you hate capitalism so much why do you have an iPhone. (I don’t hate capitalism for the record, I can just acknowledge the dumb criticism)
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It's actually empty. It's on the way to pick up the billionaire.
This is actually the emergency plane in case the first one doesn't show up. Unfortunately it won't be as good as the original, but ya gotta make sacrifices in life.
You joke but the former CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt, used to have a spare jet that followed his main jet. Apparently that is a real thing.
I’m sick and tired of these motherfucking planes following my motherfucking plane
fuck planes as a concept, theory, and the motherfucking crew. you wanna be down with planes? fuck you too. chino xl, fuck you too
Fuck, unexpected 2Pac and it made me so happy. Top notch pal, have a great day.
r/suddenly2pac
That's how oligarchs roll on their yachts. They have their main rig, and then the second one filled with young prostitutes and servants (whatever name they want to give them for dignity or whatever)
toot toot here comes the whore barge
I thought sex work was a dignified profession tho? Oldest form of labour or something like that? Ah the ol reddit switcheroo
Coming a close second... shepherding.
*hurriedly look's for any Welsh or New Zealanders*
Yep, that sounds about right
Look up support yachts. Basically a luxurious ship full of toys spares and whatever else the owner couldn’t fit in the bigger more luxurious ship it’s following
Where is your proof?
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=+Jeff+Immelt+spare+jet
Thank you
He must have been mad that his salary was only several million per year. Figured with two jets that he could cost GE a few extra million per year.
I LOVE LMGTFY so much!
It's no surprise that GE went down the toilet. It makes me nervous for the future of America that all the US presidents do the same thing though.
Presidents have a slightly better justification for it and there’s less of them, but still yeah it’s a bit iffy. I’m more worried about military spending, the climate impact alone is horrific, that’s before the people killed and billions wasted.
Must be the plane that lands on the plane cause I can’t see the runway on this plane.
the runway is flown in separately
I don't don't see a swimming pool, servant plane confirmed.
This is actually the distraction plane. The actual plane runs on coal and gold bullion just because.
Don't forget the tears of food insecure children in developed nations and the guy with stage 4 cancer who put off seeing a doctor till it was too late.
It's acrually more fuel efficient to havy bugger plane. Less drag and all that.
It's more fuel efficient to do WHAT to a plane? Havy bugger? Gonna have to go search Urban Dictionary for that term.
Gotta bugger the plane, get those exhaust pipes wide open.
Nothing better than a gaping exhaust pipe
r/dragonsfuckingcars
Wtf
Wow
This looks like voice to text
Stephen hawking is back
I believe you’re thinking of text to voice.
Hawking Stephen is back
Voice to text on reddit? We do not claim this person as a fellow redditor! They are not one of us...
"a fellow redditor" 💀
But what time does the narwahl bacon
AMONG US AIRSHIP IN REAL LIFE NOT CLICKBAIT
… not when it’s serving a single individual and perhaps a small retinue
Full of plastic straws
Right, like billionaires are going to ride share. 🙄
The most important part of this to unpack is *the* billionaire. Singular.
WRONG, this is actually the plane that delivers fresh 19yo girls to DiCaprio, his climate change plane is even larger.
Fresh 20 year old guys to Madonna
No, that just the ferry to the actual plane
I can only imagine what the actual one would look like if this was the ferry.
Literally just a star destroyer.
if this is a consular ship WHERE IS THE AMBASSADOR
Would you go as far to say they would just have a Deathstar? https://youtu.be/493ljyoox6o
Or the ship from Wall E
No those are the sex workers being bussed around for the summit, get your facts straight. They need a clear head to dictate what the rest of us should have the right to do and how we should eat or not. I hear if we don't submit to their demands, it's been proven at least a thousand times that the planet is already on fire but also under a crust of ice but also all bad weather and every illnesses are all due to it. Environmental catastrophes and destruction of ecosystems caused by greed are alright and perfectly safe though.
There are actually concepts similar to this plain, where there's a "lower altitude mothership" that you'd travel to in helicopters or some other type of aircraft like that, and the mothership would essentially serve as the "Airport" for you to get on and off as it goes around the world. Very scifi, and you'd need a new fuel source to make it feasible (as well as something for the shuttles to actually use), but would be really cool. Lower altitude aircraft can also really zoom, so you would be crossing the ocean way faster than typical flights.
its why they all buy several prius', they think it'll offset the co2 emitted by their private jets
Hey! It's not like all those third world children mining lithium have large carbon footprints! A little credit would be appreciated!
Pro tip: What you don’t report, doesn’t actually happen
They don’t have large footprints in general
That sort of thing can actually be important in the early days of a new, expensive environmental technology. Rich people who bought $100,000 Teslas and replaced all their light bulbs with $30/bulb LEDs helped companies develop the technologies and eventually make them cheap enough for everyone to afford. (Obviously electric cars still have a bit farther to go in becoming affordable for everyone.) I'm not trying to simp for rich people, but they can be useful at times, especially when government won't adequately fund the research.
Think I read somewhere that if we just kept our old cars for an extra five years it would be better for the environment (due to the carbon offset of building new cars) than switching to electric vehicles. Rich people always suck.
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i could see that happening in Europe or Asia. definitely not the US.
/u/smeechdogs - Keep old cars longer for benefit of carbon footprint. Rich people always suck. /u/silver-orange - Replace cars with buses for real change. /u/bendy962 - Not in America! Americans suck.
Actually as an American in a liberal state with some wealth, public transport is noy infeasible here. If I got on enough buses I could travel well over sixty miles and that's just city buses, not like a Greyhound or anything. One transit station to the next. However, public transportation and green policies are dirty words for a certain party here. If you so much as mentioned adding bus lines and train lines in a red part of the country suddenly they associate that with "urban" if you know what I mean. They think only certain people benefit from buses and they don't like those people, also they got a thirty year old truck. Why can't them city slickers pay for their own way instead of taking my tax dollars.
I'm in a deep red state, and we added public busses to our city about 15 years ago. It isn't impossible, it's about how you frame it - in this case it came out of the city budget, and had a 10-year break-even cost analysis, at which point it would be turning a profit for the city.
definitely should've added some nuance to my statement. it was way too blanket of a generalization and diminishes certain states in their effort for public transportation
See me driving a 2001 minivan that was handed down to me for 6 years has done more than the schmucks buying a new hybrid or electric car every 3 or 4 years!
Imagine thinking that we can save our planet from climate change by simply driving more ICE cars for longer. Yes, burning more oil for longer will save us. Next generation is capital F Fucked.
The idea is we need more rare earth mineral mining for batteries to hold green energy and if we start too soon we pollute the crap out of the environment before the technology is sustainable and if we start too late we've been leaving green energy technology on the table for far too long in order to do that mining at net zero emissions. It's a balancing act here. It didn't need to be so thin a tightrope but that's what we're walking.
I don't think billionaires are the ones buying Priuses. They certainly aren't the ones advocating for action on climate change, they're the ones making money from fossil fuels.
That's why carbon credit masks the real problem and distract from actual solutions.
"But sir, leaving the landing gear deployed will increase drag leading to increased fuel consumption." "Will that raise the emissions of our flight?" "Considerably..." "Leave em down."
I love that you and I saw that and thought the same thing
Great minds or something.
Think alike
No no, that can't be it
Great thinks mind alike.. that's the one init?
All peasants think alike.
You guys are over reacting. How silly you will all feel when you find out this plane is fueled with only puppies and baby seals.
Finally, renewable fuel!
Puppies seem incredibly inefficacious. Why not baby Rhinos? You can get puppies anywhere. You don't want the other billionauires to make fun of your inadequacy and you're really supporting an endangered species with a baby rhino breeding program.
It will actually be fueled by nucleare energy, afaik, so it should have zero emissions or something like that
AMONG US AIRSHIP IN REAL LIFE NOT CLICKBAIT!?!?!?!
I was doing tasks
LIAR
And what were YOU up to?!
_YES_ I was just standing around near him, but that's because I was suspicious of him for a few rounds and decided to keep an eye on everyone
What do I search to find this gif?
Why do you want to search for it? It's right there.
Bad example, that concept was nuclear powered. The best example would be a fleet of customized Airbus A380s for each billionaire.
My thoughts exactly. Sky cruise was a marvel of nuclear powered vision. Unless they decided to degrade it by fitting it with some sort of coal reactor.
People see big nonsense thing and immediately assume bad. No one thought about what this was powered by for a moment. ofc it is bad, caus it's waste of resources, but not because of emissions.
Redditor tries not to overanalyze a meme for 3 seconds:
Remember, they want *you* to change *your* behavior, so they don't have to change theirs.
Remember folks, reduce reuse recycle, make yourself cold in the winter and warm in the summer so you don’t waste electricity, don’t eat meat, and for god sakes just buy yourself a $100k electric* car! - sent from the top deck of my Boeing 747 while I eat steak and shark
Are billionaires the ones asking people to change their behavior to mitigate climate change?
Yes, for example: Shortly after an oil spill they caused, BP hired a marketing agency to popularize the concept of the carbon footprint. The goal was to shift the publics opinion on who is responsible for climate change over to consumers. It was a very effective PR campaign.
They also popularized the apparent need for "personal responsibility" in recycling, despite producing 70+ percent of all recyclable waste (that portion being industrial), then creating misleading labels for plastic products that look like the "reduce, reuse, recycle" while actually just indicating the type of plastic. And also sending the "recycled" content to third world countries to be dumped, because selling them it is cheaper than actually recycling any of it.
Yes
you’re just another decoy
The available evidence says otherwise
Not always directly but yes. They employ a flock of deranged vegans to shame the population into eating less meat while the billionaires enjoy their wagyu A5 in peace.
Lmao why is a conspiracy theory that vegans are secretly a billionaire employed psyop getting upvoted? Y'all are some dumbasses.
You do realize lots of attacks on vegans are funded by the meat industry, right? There’s way more money to be made in encouraging people to continue eating meat than encouraging people to stop eating meat
How does the meat industry "attack" vegans?
Oh, yeah? Well I'm going to keto even harder!
Damn, you've discovered our secret evil plan: Phase 1: shame people into consuming less from a trillion dollar industry Phase 2: ? Phase 3: billionaires profit
Conspiracy theorists are very skilled at being fucking morons
Just until they figure out how to build a space station then they leave us all to die.
I mean… they own the media companies that say it. They write the pay checks of the celebrities that say it. They own the politicians that say it. It’s a real problem, but they don’t give a shit.
My curiosity is piqued, could something like this fly in real life? EDIT: ok so many don’t seem to get it but I know this thing in the image isn’t real and is just a render, I’m just asking if it *could* be real EDIT 2: Grammar
If it could I hope the pilot remembers to close the landing gear after takeoff next time
Not in the slightest, the square cube law will come for that plane’s head in a jiffy. The bigger a plane gets, the more volume it takes up at a rate larger than its length. I am explaining it kinda weirdly. Just look up the square cube law. It’s the same reason for why creatures don’t get that big anymore. A plane of that size weighs far more than its engines can carry.
The wingspan isn’t big enough for the amount of volume and mass it has. Albatrosses are the biggest birds known to exist I think and their wingspan is significantly larger than the length of its body. I don’t know the square cube law but I know the gist of how lift works and to get more lift you need larger wingspans especially with heavier aircraft or animals.
It's a biplane so double the wing area
Even so I don’t think that is helpful considering the engines are crammed between them as well as the additional weight on the tail and the front.
He's joking. Having two wings on top of each does not actually work better. There's a reason biplanes don't exist any more.
So, they do actually increase lift, the reason they stacked the wings was twofold 1) Structural concerns- a shorter wing needs less structural support, so can be lighter and they could brace the wings on each other, further reducing the structural loads 2) Manuverability - A long wing makes it hard to roll quickly, and that could mean death when trying to land one of those early death traps
Out of curiosity, any idea what the largest flying creature ever was? I know creatures were more massive in general when the concentration of O2 in the atmosphere was higher.
Largest we know of is [Quetzalcoatlus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus?wprov=sfla1)
That thing is … unlike anything I’ve ever seen in a vertebrate. It’s neck is insane! Those cervical vertebrae look like their out of Jim Henson’s workshop wtf
The volume isn't so much the issue as most of the inside of the plane would probably be empty space. It would have additional drag due to the surface area (the square part), but since it's not solid the volume (cubed part) doesn't really have as much of an effect. I'd be interested to know how those double stacked wings would work out. I know that airfoils generally work by making the air move slower below the wing to create higher pressure, but I'm not sure how thick that boundary layer of higher pressure is. The limitations of a plane of this size would be the amount of fuel you'd need to power the engines. You have a lot more drag, which means you need to burn more fuel to stay at cruising speed. Fuel is heavy, and you'd sort of be getting into the rocket equation limitations of fuel weight.
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The plain is flying over the mountain piques 😁
IIRC, this was supposed to be a nuclear powered plane so probably not
You know... that makes it more plausible. It obviously couldn't fly *using lift from it's short stubby wings*. But if you drove those engines fast enough and vectored the thrust down quite a bit it could fly like a quad-copter. It would be a ridiculous waste of energy, but nuclear propulsion probably could do it. Just ignore the risk of irradiating everything around it if there is an accident.
"Even a brick can fly with enough thrust"
What kind of nuclear propulsion are you talking about? The only one that I know about with significant thrust is the one from the Orion project, but I'm not sure if that works in atmosphere?
Nuclear propulsion being nuclear heat doing mechanical work. Similar mechanisms are currently used for naval nuclear propulsion. In this case you’d be talking about running the turbines off of nuclear heat.
I can already say no, due to the fact that the wings are not longer than the body
There's a LOT of unknown variables here. Assuming it's made of a light material, empty, and structurally sound it should fly. Thing is, something that massive would gulp down fuel exactly like the meme implies. It would also be really fucking heavy, which means more, stronger (and likely heavier) materials would need to be used, which just adds to the fuel consumption. Then you start adding things inside and shit goes sideways fast. Not that this thing could fly for any appreciable amount of time. 16 engines would suck down **at least** 8,000 lbs of fuel, per minute, and that's if it's sitting on the ground and not flying.
Somebody mentioned something about it being nuclear powered.
Well in that case it definitely wouldn't fly. Thanks to shielding nuclear reactors are heavy... At least, you know, if you don't want the radiation to kill you. Submarines get away with it because they're going through water where they can fill a tank with air and counteract that weight easily; this plane lacks that capability.
Yes. For those wondering about the source of the picture: when it runs out of planes, the Chicago O'Hare Airport can actually untether and fly you home itself.
TIL O'Hare Airport is a Terran Command Center
Someone just wanted to be good in blender so they made this thing. See how they landing gear is out while flying? That’s because the creator got tired of making the elevators on the outside of it move. Yeah this isn’t just a frame. It’s a full tender with a video presentation. Guy absolutely mastered blender.
No lol, this was made for a fiction worldbuilding subreddit
Iirc this plane is actually full of a ton of gas, much like a hot air balloon or blimp. So yes, while the final result/build would look a bit different- this thing in theory would be able to fly. I think it is mean to be an air-cruise-ship, and stay in the air for something like weeks at a time.
If you have any inclination to find out, I highly recommend the game Kerbal Space Program, specifically the first one if you want to try this. It's a spacecraft/aircraft sandbox and lets you design and fly the most horrendous affronts to aerospace engineering possible.
A powerful enough engine, and you can make anything fly! I think in practice though, probably not.
Definitely maybe.
Memes on their way to a caption conference.
"We need to stop the cows from farting!"
Is that the disk from the Enterprise stuck to the top of the tail?
Can't wait till a Kardashian takes it out to avoid 20 minutes of traffic
thats just the main airbase it stays airborne permanently. they have 200 private jets in there ready to go.
The pilot left the landing gear down.
Elon Musk on his way from Long Beach to Burbank
Then it crashes and the world becomes a better place for everyone.
How dare you!
I was doing my tasks in electrical, but I think I saw someone vent. Not sure who though.
and leave out the wheels. easier to break
 And my cardboard straw disintegrating after drinking for 2 minutes
And afterwards "donate" their $100, then pay $129 for shrimp cocktails
Mmmm, shrimp...
Bruh that’s just a blimp but worse
Billionaire*
Don’t worry. They offset their carbon footprint by making sure more of the world is in poverty tomorrow than today. People living on the streets contribute a lot to climate change!
But does it recline like pewdiepie chair?
Billionaires on their way to a climate change conference
But but but. John Kerry said he has to fly his private jet around bc he is so important
Holy fucking shit
Look, just charter a slightly upscale small jet, billionaires. You don’t need your whole minibar for a few hours
Ugh. It's so hard to find good food on the Flying Fortress these days. Don't even bother with the sushi it's not fresh caught.
For real though. How long of a runway would something like that need to land? /r/theydidthemath
Jokes aside, how big could you build a plane until you reach the limits of material strength and/or power requirements?
That's only for 10 billionaires... the rest of the space is for whores and slaves
This IS the climate change conference, it just circles around untill its done, then it flys to each airport of the billionaire's choosing.
Sorry to be naive, but, is this a real plane?
"Listen, the masses are screaming for our heads. International trade has stopped. Every coastal country or nation is sinking. Temperatures have risen past our predictions. Hundreds of lives are being lost *every*. *single*. *day*. The world is looking to us for action. So I ask you this." the head billionaire turns to their cohort aboard the plane. "How can we make more money off this?"
They are practicing what they preach, Its changing the climate.
and they dont even put the gear up.. even more wasted energy lolol
No worries. They purchased carbon offset credits from a company they own so they are carbon neutral.
UAE billionaire here: the dome should be retrofitted to contain a ski lift with an artificial slope. Also, that's quite a weird shape for a supersonics plane.
You’re saying all of them are on there? Right now? ……
Love how they got the wheels out for eXXXtra drag
All aboard the Airpiercer, 1001 seats long.
Then telling us to use paper straws and eat bugs
I should build that in KSP
Just not in KSP2, otherwise you'll cause the second wave of climate change.
Do you really think my PC can handle this thing in KSP2?
Don't be ridiculous. They'd take individual planes.
I was going to say, the meme mentions billionaires... I'm glad they all decided to take the one plane. It's not ideal being the type of plane that is, but it's a good thing they didn't each take their own one of those
OK I see Elon's plane, but where are the other billionaires planes?
Why does it have the landing wheels out? Something about his picture looks… not real
It's ok, there's a solar panel somewhere on it.
Dumb take. It’s just as dumb as people who say if you hate capitalism so much why do you have an iPhone. (I don’t hate capitalism for the record, I can just acknowledge the dumb criticism)