Why don’t … why don’t they just throw a giraffe in water to see what happens?
Will it float rule
Submitted 1 month ago by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
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finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Robotunicorn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What also floats in water? Churches! Very small rocks…
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Now I wanna throw a church into water to see if it floats!
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It has to be full or it doesn’t count
workerONE@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They have good neck mobility, able to reach high up so I’d say they could hold their head above the water like a snorkel
imadethis@fedinsfw.app 1 month ago
The issue with that is it would create a very large lever arm (not really a lever arm, but it’s the closest way I have to describe it) with the buoyancy force of the neck disappearing unless the neck is placed in the water, and if the giraffe is holding it’s head up higher, the angle necessary to have the neck in the water while the body (the other significant buoyancy provider) is also in the water would dunk even more of the giraffe’s face in the water, almost certainly plunging the giraffe’s nostrils and mouth below the surface.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Oh yeah, like those Land Rovers that have a pipe for their air intake
m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
So you see how its front legs droop so much because they’re so heavy? This means its torso is tilted far forwards and so it can’t really lift its neck much more.
workerONE@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But giraffes can stand on flat ground and reach their head almost straight up above them. I tried to match the body position in the comparison image I made. I’m not sure why they think the giraffe’s legs would be so far forward but it doesn’t matter because it shows neck mobility Image
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 month ago
The better question with giraffes is ‘will it blend?’.