Fish don’t really swim, they are flying through the water.
Birds don't really fly, they are swimming through the air.
Submitted 10 months ago by FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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AliasAKA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That is essentially what penguins do, yeah.
db2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Air doesn’t float, it just doesn’t sink as hard
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How high are you right now ?
Centillionaire@kbin.social 10 months ago
They are so high, swimming way above the clouds.
unreachable@lemmy.world 10 months ago
yes
lung@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Water - swim Air - fly Space - ?? fly Ground - dig? Plasma - liquefy?
foo@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Plasma - liquefy?
You misspelled “vaporize”
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 10 months ago
to fly and to swim are very different actions
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What is a verb?
VulKendov@reddthat.com 10 months ago
That’s Phineas’s step brother
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And what is a platypus?
akash_rawal@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
dukethorion@lemmy.world 10 months 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)
technomad@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Some birds fly through the water.
The common merganser, for instance.
Donebrach@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
xoggy@programming.dev 10 months ago
But spoons are just tiny bowls to get food from the bigger bowl, man!
Donebrach@lemmy.world 10 months ago
WRONG. Spoons are tiny ladles you degenerate. If you need a tiny bowl go get yourself a cup.