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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Good thing no one risked boating before Archimedes invented bouyancy ๐Ÿ™

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I heard people used to just float around before Newton invented gravity.

But I'm not sure. I think that's just hot air.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

That's brilliant

PS: English is not my first language so I had to confirm if "hot air" is an idiom

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'd imagine people moved around using giant levers, his guess what?

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Boats float because of their shape, Archimedes is a bitch.

-Aristotle

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Boats float because an ideal boat floats, Archimedes and Aristotle are both bitches

-Plato

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

But what floats your goat, if not magic??

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

"I got my swim trunks. And my flippy floppies."

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)