Birds don't really fly, they are swimming through the air.

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• Donebrach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am so sick of shower thoughts that are people just ignoring definitions of words and using other words instead like it’s some mind bending reality shock. No, birds FLY through the air because that is the DEFINITION of flying you dweeb.

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  • xoggy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But spoons are just tiny bowls to get food from the bigger bowl, man!

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    • Donebrach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      WRONG. Spoons are tiny ladles you degenerate. If you need a tiny bowl go get yourself a cup.

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• AliasAKA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fish don’t really swim, they are flying through the water.

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  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is essentially what penguins do, yeah.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Air doesn’t float, it just doesn’t sink as hard

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• Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How high are you right now ?

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  • Centillionaire@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are so high, swimming way above the clouds.

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  • unreachable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yes

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• lung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Water - swim Air - fly Space - ?? fly Ground - dig? Plasma - liquefy?

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  • foo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Plasma - liquefy?

    You misspelled “vaporize”

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• BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  to fly and to swim are very different actions

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• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is a verb?

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  • VulKendov@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s Phineas’s step brother

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    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And what is a platypus?

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• akash_rawal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1 a : to propel oneself in water by natural means (such as movements of the limbs, fins, or tail) b : to play in the water (as at a beach or swimming pool) 2 : to move with a motion like that of swimming : glide a cloud swam slowly across the moon 3 a : to float on a liquid : not sink b : to surmount difficulties : not go under sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish— Daniel Webster 4 : to become immersed in or flooded with or as if with a liquid potatoes swimming in gravy 5 : to have a floating or reeling appearance or sensation

  www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swim

  Apparently, swimming inherently requires a liquid.

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• dukethorion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Air is a mixture of gases also qualifying as a fluid, so I see the logic here.

  A more interesting question would be in the absence of gravity, would you sink in a liquid or remain on the surface? (Surface tension/buoyancy issue)

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• technomad@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some birds fly through the water.

  The common merganser, for instance.

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