c/nottheonion · by stermy4u@lemmy.world · 12d

Professor who claimed ancient Malays could fly loses university post

https://townflex.com/professor-who-claimed-ancient-malays-could-fly-loses-university-post/

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23 Comments

RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 42 pts · 12d (4 replies)

Anyone can fly, once.

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 12d (2 replies)

I'd argue that during an unpowered flight attenpt, if the vertical distance traveled is greater than the horizontal distance traveled, that is not flying. That is plummeting.

Dave@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 12d (1 reply)

So if I dive forward from a very low height I can briefly fly?

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 11d

Technically, yes, in my unlearned opinion.

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 12d

magnetosphere@fedia.io · 20 pts · 12d

She’s going to regret turning down that six-month payout lol

luthis@lemmy.nz · 17 pts · 12d (2 replies)

This is so wack it makes me wonder if there is more going on here

M137@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 12d (1 reply)

Uh, have you not read any history and news your whole life? This is not a rare thing, and people with beliefs that are just as weird as hers get elected and put in positions of power all the time all over the world, and it's always been like that.

luthis@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 12d

Well.. yep I guess so. It does seem to be like that.

grue@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 12d

Ah, that finally explains the mystery of the Quimbaya Jets!

See, Malayo-Polynesians expanded across the Pacific, made contact with Amerindians in Colombia, and apparently traded their fighter jet technology for kūmara (sweet potato, a New World crop that the Polynesians had before the Columbian exchange too). Then those Amerindians time-traveled 1000 years into their past to give the jet plans to their ancestors who, through a hilarious error in metric-ancient unit conversion, made tiny gold models of them instead.

[Big, fat

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for about half of that.]

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 9 pts · 12d

Yeah well, drug abuse is not welcome in academia.

CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 12d (3 replies)

The earliest flight legend in Islamic history is Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi, and even with historical records whether it has been successful is still a topic of debate among historians.

Claiming an earlier flight without any historical record to show as proof is a really dumb move.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 10 pts · 12d (1 reply)

Ancient Malays would be pre-Islamic, since Islam is Medieval.

faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 11d

Yeah but also fanatics to a degree. So to claim something like this is both being a heretic in eyes of islam and untrustworthy in eyes of teaching community. Stupid move.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 2 pts · 12d

Isn’t there a flying horse in the Quran?

unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 12d (1 reply)

Flying kung fu? Is she saying Kung Fu Hustle is historically accurate?

azimir@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 11d

Shaolin Soccer was a documentary.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 12d

Anything can fly if you strap a big enough rocket to it.

Though I’m guessing that’s not what she meant.

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 12d (4 replies)

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 12d (3 replies)

Such a great series of books