Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds

y0kai@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• reev@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As a European… Are feet logarithmic? Wouldn’t even surprise me that much.

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  • felbane@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Only when viewed from the north.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And on Tuesdays.

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• Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The zero key got stuck.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They used different people’s feet.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Chinese feet are smaller.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So those units didn’t scale right, clearly. But you also can’t possibly call those “high altitudes”. Small planes like cessnas fly at low altitudes, like 5000 ft, a 747 flys at a high altitude, 40,000 ft; 1600 ft is nothing, that’s lower than some buildings.

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  • breadguy@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    they're talking about the extra 0 on 10,000

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I did catch that, I was just pointing out there are additional problems with the statement as well.

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  • y0kai@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Agreed. I had the same thought and then saw the numbers and was like wait, “which part of this is the fucked up part?”

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