How horses fly on planes

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greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org · 95 pts · 206d (17 replies)

Why are they flying horses, jesus, just pick up a rental horse at the destination.

TheBat@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 206d (1 reply)
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SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 206d (4 replies)

Lots of money in show jumping

TOTAL PRIZE MONEY | 4.1 million CAD

Foreigner@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Horse racing too

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 206d

Thankfully not as much as there used to be. 6/9 tracks closed this last year in California alone.

#KillRacingNotHorses

greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 206d

we all know a rental car horse is the fastest car horse in the world.

Just make sure you get the Altima to ensure victory, even if it is tempting to pony up for a pony car .

Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 205d

You can show a horse jumping without having to fly them somewhere.

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 206d (9 replies)

Wait until you learn how expensive certain horses are

Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 206d (8 replies)

A syringe of cum from a decent race horse will set you back about €600 or more (if I remember correctly).

SupraMario@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 205d

That's the price for just a papered horse. A horse with a few wins and a good line will run you around 5-10k. Then a horse with even better set of papers/lineage and wins, will push into 25k easy. Rich ass people will buy a horse that's won a lot for a few million, then stand the horse at stud with a vet and collect checks for years until it's swimmers start slowing down. Then they basically drain the poor bastard dry and then sell or get rid of him. The horse world is filled with shit people, who don't really give a fuck about the animals.

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 205d (1 reply)

I can do that cheaper.

Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 205d

You have to be decent tho

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 205d (1 reply)

Almost as expensive as printer ink

Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d

😭

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d (2 replies)

That makes for expensive shots

Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d (1 reply)

I prefer rum anyway so it's not much of an issue...

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d

Ah, the classic Rum and Cock!

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 53 pts · 206d (3 replies)

I didn't read the article, but I assume they have to customize all the controls so a horse hoof can still operate them. That alone would make the cockpit huge.

cornshark@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 205d

They were. Just Google huge horse cockpits

smeg@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 205d (1 reply)
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AmidFuror@fedia.io · 2 pts · 205d

Don't know; didn't click.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 42 pts · 206d (6 replies)

Looks like they're standing, not flying. 🤔

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 206d

Just wait till the plane does one of those special nosedives

socsa@piefed.social · 6 pts · 206d

They might be hovering. Hard to tell.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 205d (2 replies)

I know it's weird because whenever I fly, I'm actually sitting.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 205d (1 reply)

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d

Yes just like that.

TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 205d

The photo shows the inside of the giant cannon the horses are about to be shot from.

Waldelfe@feddit.org · 33 pts · 205d

Funfact: there are several airlines specializing in horse transport. One of them is called "Air Horse One".

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 205d (1 reply)

This is what's wrong with this fucking world.

Flying goddamn horses, and people can't afford medicine or rent.

michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 205d

At least the horses are working

CoffeeTails@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 206d (9 replies)

What is that gray thing on their neck?

GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 206d

Neck pillow, duh.

UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 206d (4 replies)

Some sort of loose restraint so they can't rear back maybe?

starik@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Maybe so they can’t bite each other

albbi@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 206d

Ryanair taking notes.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Probably the same reason humans wear seat belts on an airplanes... prevents them from hitting the ceiling when the plane does a barrel role.

13igTyme@piefed.social · 1 pts · 205d

Thanks, Peppy Hare.

ickplant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d

I am not sure - this was originally posted to Reddit 3 years ago, and it doesn't look like anyone asked that question.

StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 206d

Sound cancelling headphones.

kazerniel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d

might be another of those calming devices like the ones they put on their lips? (reddit link)

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 206d (12 replies)

Fun fact: This was in fact a parabolic flight. NASA was trying to figure out how horses would behave on the ISS and if they can be used as emotional support animals for stressed out astronauts.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 206d (2 replies)

I want this to be true.

W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 206d

Name checks out.

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 205d

i want this to be false.

it would be animal abuse

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 205d (2 replies)

I'd suggest a sloth, instead. I feel like a sloth would get along just fine in zero-G.

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 205d (1 reply)

Alright Bud, you go ahead and argue with Commander Williams, why he is not allowed to take his emotional support horsie on that space station.

tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 205d

There's a horsieeeee
Who's heading for the Sun
He'd like to be back home
With a box of apples for everyone

https://youtu.be/a_EDpth9xvU

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 205d (2 replies)

We'd better get a Space Cowboys movie out of this!

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 205d

Shoot out at the meo corral.

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 205d
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 206d

I cannot imagine the vet bill were that true.

WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 205d

Why...pray tell...would anyone want to know how horses would behave on the ISS? You couldn't even fit a horse in that thing!

daddycool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d

Space stallions.

Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 205d (4 replies)

The smell in there must be ungodly

Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 205d (3 replies)

Just wait until you have to peel back the gill liner during heavy check.

ReasonablePea@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 205d (2 replies)

I choose to believe these are fake terms

tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 205d

You'd clamp that noiserator too if you'd seen the flack-end of a swot bristler take down a hummer at thirty thousand high

Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 205d

At some point, all that plastic covering the walls comes off during a long maintenance cycle, and there's usually concentrated horse piss waiting for you where it meets the floor.

slickgoat@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 205d

I don't understand, how do they get the food and drinks trolley past all that?

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 206d

Ok now show us how planes fly on horses.

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 205d

How else would they fly? They don't have wings

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 206d (1 reply)

If they are flying they are actually called Pegasuses not horses.

yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 206d

Pegasus was just the personal name of the last of the winged horses, not the name of the species.

r00ty@kbin.life · 13 pts · 206d (3 replies)

Business class, nice! Can I have prosecco instead of champagne? Thanks.

ickplant@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 206d (2 replies)

Sorry, all we have is Chardonneigh.

r00ty@kbin.life · 5 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Is that the wine, or the name of the cabin crew serving it?

ickplant@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 206d

Just the wine. The crew serving it is called Sotally Tober.

huquad@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 205d

I've had it with all these motherfucking horses on this motherfucking plane!

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 205d (7 replies)

you know, we had a way of transporting horses way back in time; it was called "riding". basically the horses have legs and they can walk ... (/s)

SorryQuick@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 205d

Unfortunately they refuse to cross the ocean when you’re riding them.

OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d (5 replies)

I love you for this comment

tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 205d

I divorce you for this one

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 205d (3 replies)

that's what a bot would say 🧐️

OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d (2 replies)

That's the worst thing anyone has ever said about me. I was a little buzzed when I first commented so an upvote wasn't enough appreciation. Anyway, have a human day!

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 203d (1 reply)

sry i didn't intend to be mean 😅 have a nice day too!

OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d

Oh you're totally fine. I didn't take it as mean. But your comment made me think about how terrible the internet has become knowing that I have to prove myself a human. Like being myself isn't human enough. Weird times we are in

VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 12 pts · 205d (3 replies)

That must be incredibly scary for the horses.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 205d (2 replies)

My first thought is "what are they sedated on, and who injected them with it?" So sad.

My other thought was "why the heck did they need to travel somewhere?"

Bullerfar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 205d

Sport

tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 205d

Let horses fly, life is short

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 206d (3 replies)

Like, I know why they wouldn’t put widows but I still think they should put windows

Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 206d (2 replies)

The horses would loose their fucking minds.

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 205d (1 reply)

I wonder if they'd even understand what they were seeing.

Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 205d

I think they'd understand enough during takeoff.

BigTrout75@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 205d (1 reply)

Looks like they get pretty good leg room.

toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 205d

Neigh

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 206d (3 replies)

Can I fly with the horses? That looks so comfortable.

ickplant@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Probably better than RyanAir.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d

So is having a horse stomp on your nuts

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 206d

They get decent legroom at least.

1984@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 205d

Looks like economy class.

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 206d (1 reply)

No entertainment or food service means that's a long time doing nothing with no view. Bored horse a board.

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 206d

At least they each have their own armrests!

Sergio@piefed.social · 9 pts · 206d (2 replies)

OK, but if you get on a horse's back, are you riding, or flying?

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 9 pts · 206d

You're riding in the reference frame of the plane.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d

Yes

regedit@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 205d

No window seat? Restraints around their necks? Must be Spirit Air.

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 205d

LOL ITS LUNAR NEW YEAR YEAR OF THE HORSE so fitting 🤣

My zodiac animal is also horse LOL

the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 205d (2 replies)

This seems dangerous. What if the engines stall?

toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 205d (1 reply)

Don't worry, plenty of extra horse power

GandalftheBlack@feddit.org · 1 pts · 205d

I suppose that solves the mane issue, but it wouldn't behoof them to help

HubertManne@piefed.social · 7 pts · 206d (1 reply)

I want to see this for pigs.

ickplant@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 206d

Amuletta@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 205d

No in-flight movie? Cheapskate owners couldn't spring for business class?

MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 206d (2 replies)

A few months ago I ate horse sashimi in hida Japan, I'd like to think those horses got to have a fun airplane ride to get there like I did

ickplant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 206d (1 reply)

I have tried horse meat at a Mongolian restaurant once. I'm always scared to admit it...

HubertManne@piefed.social · 6 pts · 206d

horses are great. they get you places. sexy time. source of nutrition...... gonna need to be /s on this one although I hipe folks can recognize the callback.

Photonic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 206d

More leg room than in economy

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 206d (1 reply)

“I’ve seen a horse fly…”

cattywampas@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 206d

But I ain't never seen a donkey fly.

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Time Flys

Fruit Flys

House Flys

Horse Flys

trailee@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 206d

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Aeri@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 204d

I think being in this room would actually kill me from the smell alone.

HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 3 pts · 206d

Pegasus airlines

umbraroze@piefed.social · 2 pts · 206d

Obligatory comment from someone on the !fuckcars@lemmy.world crowd:

How cars fly on planes? WELL THEY USUALLY DON'T. We just make shitloads of infrastructure for them. BCUZ OF FREEDUMZ

Rajtinka@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d

So, horse inside the wagon to fly?

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d

Same, my guys.