The main difference between swimming and flying is basically just how compressible the fluid you're moving through is, so it's not that different really. Although I guess you can fly through space so my attempt to sound clever kind of falls through, huh?
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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Some crabs can swim.
phudgins@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
They must be helicopters then.
GluWu@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Everything leads to
crabVTOLTrousersMcPants@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
The main difference between swimming and flying is basically just how compressible the fluid you're moving through is, so it's not that different really. Although I guess you can fly through space so my attempt to sound clever kind of falls through, huh?
mEEGal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
you're mostly right !
you can fly through space, but not like a bird flies through air or sharks swim in water; "swimming" in space is way weirder.
I can't find it, but there's a video on PBS Space Time where they talk about how that could work
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 1 pts · 1y
Just look at the compression in 3D (resistance to existing motion) instead of just in an up/down 2D plane and your analogy still works, even in space.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
Well, are they?
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I understand not wanting to go 100% weird with most people, but damnit weird is interesting. So be a bit weird.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Do fish think of water just as little as we think of the air? edit: changed a g to a k
toynbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
1337@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
No, they think it's space.