i'm on a boat!!

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Good thing no one risked boating before Archimedes invented bouyancy 🙏

ShortFuse@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I heard people used to just float around before Newton invented gravity.

But I'm not sure. I think that's just hot air.

That's brilliant

PS: English is not my first language so I had to confirm if "hot air" is an idiom

I'd imagine people moved around using giant levers, his guess what?

yesman@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Boats float because of their shape, Archimedes is a bitch.

-Aristotle

Boats float because an ideal boat floats, Archimedes and Aristotle are both bitches

-Plato

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Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Oh damn, I generally consider myself fairly decent at spelling but I've probably spelled buoyancy wrong every time I've written it.

You know, those two times. I can't say I'm often discussing buoyancy.

Buoyancy. As in a buoy.

As a non-native, this is one of the words that make me cry.

Let me try...buoyancy?

"I got my swim trunks. And my flippy floppies."

But what floats your goat, if not magic??