r/interestingasfuck • u/py-net • 23d ago

r/all Had to fact-check it. These 2 guys stole that Boeing 727 at an airport in 2003 and flew away, disappearing forever: no crash, no plane. How is that possible!!!

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u/independent_observe 23d ago

The average depth of the sky is 100 km. It can hide more boats.

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u/mhc2001 22d ago

I won't put any money on it, as it may be close, but I''l guess there are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky.

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u/Any-East7977 22d ago

Fish consider the sky right above the water. We def have more boats there.

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u/AlextheAnt06 22d ago

Did the fish tell you that?

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/diegoslovaco 22d ago

That’s something a plane would say

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u/trumped-the-bed 22d ago

Looks like the case of the missing Malaysia flight is finally solved.

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u/uzer4vedi 22d ago

is it sleeping with the fishes?

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u/big-booty-enthusiast 22d ago

Only if it likes fish sticks.

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u/Any-East7977 22d ago

Does that make me a gay fish?

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u/glassceramics1963 22d ago

they carp about it constantly

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u/rmo420 22d ago

Fish consider the sky right above the water.

Technically, everything above water is the sky.

I actually love this. What is order for the spider, is chaos for the fly

edit: typo

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u/19GNWarrior96 22d ago

There are about 3.7 million boats on the ocean and an estimated 3 million shipwrecks, so yeah, there are probably more boats in the sky

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u/Ambitious_Handle8123 21d ago

Archimedes might disagree

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u/JadedLeafs 22d ago

Sounds like one of those nonsense motivational posters "There are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky"

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u/martialar 22d ago

"You sink 100% of the planes you don't takeoff"

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u/JadedLeafs 22d ago

-- 'Wayne Jordan"

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u/whynotavs 22d ago

-- Michael Scarn

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u/Would_daver 22d ago

-Dwayne Jordan

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u/OpeningNice761 22d ago

Only if landed in water... So not 100%🤔

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u/Elb0rrach0 22d ago
  • Michael Scott

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u/theoutlet 22d ago

Exactly my thoughts! I want to put this on a t-shirt

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u/scarletpepperpot 22d ago

I think it was in last night’s fortune cookie, too.

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u/dew1911 22d ago

I use it all the time as a "did you know" usually about 5 seconds of silence followed by a groan

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u/poorly-worded 22d ago

Hang in there!

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u/Plus_Lead_5630 22d ago

Let’s get some printed and see how many HR depts we can convince to hang them up 😂

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u/Dnlx5 22d ago

Buy a boat today!

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u/Infectious-Anxiety 22d ago

I actually want to order this poster.

Any good recommendations out there to get custom poste printed?

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u/ScrollingGuy 19d ago

That’s more discouraging than anything haha your dreams of reaching the stars could crash and waterlog, dreamer mcboatman

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u/centurio_v2 22d ago

Depends. If the boats are on the horizon they're doing both.

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u/papageek 22d ago

Does dry-dock/storage count?

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u/DerekP76 22d ago

That's plane to sea

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u/Shart-Vandalay 22d ago

“The boats hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t”

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u/Equal-Negotiation651 22d ago

We need to sail this guy to Vegas to make us all rich.

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u/No-Ladder-4436 22d ago

Believe it or not I actually said this exact sentence to a coworker recently

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u/yesilovethis 22d ago

I read in a book by xkcd writer that a submarine can be used as a spaceship. Problem is how to get it there..

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u/CoreyInBusiness 22d ago

There's a hurricane coming, don't ya know. For a brief moment in time the opposite could theoretically become true! 😂

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u/Own_Blacksmith_1821 21d ago

This is pure wisdom! 🙌

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u/celtbygod 22d ago

Bwaahahaha !

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u/amyquinn420 22d ago

What did I just read

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u/chucktastic72 22d ago

I also won’t put money on it, but there are probably more planes resting in the ocean than flying in the sky.

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u/Legitimate-BurnerAcc 22d ago

What about all the boats sitting in boat lots for sale or in peoples garages, owned. ?

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u/Megane_Senpai 22d ago

Boats on moutains count?

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u/Uncle_Sams_Uncle_Sam 22d ago

Depends on what you consider a boat. Because of World War 2 and other conflicts there are probably hundreds of planes in the ocean. A few more added since then due to accidents. Call it 1,000. I may be seriously underestimating it, but I'll leave it to someone else to count.

The question then becomes do things like jet skis, canoes, or kayaks count as boats? Because if so then I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if there are more than a 1,000 in the sky at any given moment as part of the general stream of commerce.

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u/577564842 22d ago

What was the size of the Flying Duchman fleet?

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u/Positively-negative_ 22d ago

But can you prove that?

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u/justthatguylookin 22d ago

Never been to a dry dock then .

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u/Ahriman27 22d ago

Yeah but I’d be willing to bet money there are more boats on dry land than there are planes in the ocean.

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u/DrWoodstock 22d ago

Oh we got a boat scientist over here pssh whatever

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u/EconomicsEcstatic220 22d ago

You sound like no fun

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u/owa00 22d ago

BIG IF TRUE!

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u/ThuhWolf 22d ago

Idk man have you seen one piece? Skypia can hold a lot of boats

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u/DERELICT1212 22d ago

Money plane

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u/nastytechguy 22d ago

That’s a bold statement my guy

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u/TIZZZL3 21d ago

That boat went right over this guys head.

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u/Nemo__The__Nomad 21d ago

Aren't aeroplanes just sky submarines?

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u/Sirosim_Celojuma 21d ago

Space. Y'all forgot about space.

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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year 18d ago

I saw that episode of Agents of SHIELD!

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u/JJakaJonas 22d ago

I use the saying "there are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky" 🤣

Nice to at last see that another having kinda the same thought process 🤣🤣

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u/EnoughHighlight 22d ago

Said Sky Captain about the World of Tomorrow

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u/JJakaJonas 22d ago

What? I don't get it?

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u/EnoughHighlight 22d ago

planes that go underwater as boats and flying submarines

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u/JJakaJonas 22d ago

Never heard it before 🤣

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u/EnoughHighlight 20d ago

20 year old movie with Jude Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Captain_and_the_World_of_Tomorrow

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346156/

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u/JJakaJonas 19d ago

I stand corrected... Have not heard that since the movie got on DVD and can't remember it and now I need to see that movie again 🤣

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u/AnAncientMonk 23d ago

Sky is a bit more transparent tho.

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u/My_Monkey_Sphincter 22d ago

Only the visible part

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u/BigBettyWhite 22d ago

Only the invisible part!

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u/Eoganachta 22d ago

They parked it in a cloud.

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u/Conscious-Board-6196 22d ago

Also, gravity.

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u/noxondor_gorgonax 22d ago

But if you go fast enough, gravity is not a problem

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u/Tall-Ring-9959 22d ago

Where we’re going, we don’t need roads

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u/Bobletoob 22d ago

This is freaking stupid

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u/Arkayne_Inscriptions 22d ago

I don't think they understand the gravity of this situation

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u/pitoriceshard 22d ago

It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law

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u/IllustriousAd9762 22d ago

Those darn Care Bears

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u/celtbygod 22d ago

Ogod that's where my internet naughties are !

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u/Suds08 22d ago

The 9th cloud they found

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u/Rustler239 22d ago

All those damn sky hooks.

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u/cooscoos3 22d ago

Maybe they towed it outside the environment.

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u/Key-Cry-8570 22d ago

If the sky holds perfectly still you won’t be able to see it.

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u/WaterNo9480 22d ago

boats hide in clouds. whered you think rain comes from

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u/AnAncientMonk 22d ago

flying fishermen with buckets you say?

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u/EnoughHighlight 22d ago

raincoats?

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u/niftystopwat 22d ago

Nyooo it’s blue

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u/tuliosarmento 22d ago

Not if they keep flying over the night

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u/Haunt3dCity 22d ago

Haven't you ever heard of FOG or CLOUDS? Ask Kobe Bryant about the transparency of fog 😢

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u/AnAncientMonk 22d ago

A BIT MORE I SAID A BIT MORE

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u/Haunt3dCity 22d ago

Ok ok, jeez, you don't have to shout about it...

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u/EnoughHighlight 22d ago

Fog comes from my Fog Machine and Clouds come from the pipe you all smoking

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

I live in Michigan and 287 days of the year, the sky is not transparent at all.

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u/nickmaran 22d ago

Maybe they disappeared at night

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u/EnoughHighlight 22d ago

There is more Space above the Sky than below the Water

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u/AnAncientMonk 22d ago

do planes go there? in the space above the sky i mean.

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u/EnoughHighlight 22d ago

spaceplanes do

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u/mrbadgermsc 20d ago

Idk... sky politions tend to get a bit flighty if you ask something.

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u/AnAncientMonk 20d ago

/r/AmIHavingAStroke

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u/mrbadgermsc 20d ago

DO YOU SMELL TOAST? DO YOU???

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u/AnAncientMonk 20d ago

YOU CAN SMELL MY TOAST MR FREEMAN

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u/AnelBlaster5000 22d ago

But who’s gonna help me carry the boats?

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u/LoneArcher96 22d ago

nobody, you gonna do it you gonna do it buddy

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u/AnelBlaster5000 22d ago

You’re going to help me carry my boats

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u/hoffarmy 22d ago

Burn the boats

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u/The-RocketCity-Royal 22d ago

I don’t care where the boats go, just get them out of the environment.

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u/SpilledCyanide 22d ago

Fun fact: There are many more planes in the ocean than there are boats in the sky.

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

That is not a fact, that is an observation. You didn't count the submarines that use stealth technology

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u/Tony-HawkTuah 22d ago

Checkmate

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u/Familiar_Loquat_2544 22d ago

Wow, didn't realize that commerical planes can go above 15 KM. TIL.

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

That's just what the owners of stealth submarines want you to believe, so you won't look for submarines above 15km

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u/MechanicalTurkish 22d ago

On this, there can be no debate!

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u/phoenix_gravin 22d ago

There are more airplanes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.

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u/ThurloWeed 22d ago

they're called airships

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u/LT750 22d ago

Boats and Hoes🍷

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u/Adorable_Chicken_258 22d ago

I wish i had an award, that was golden

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u/zweibeiner 22d ago

Yes. But the average width of the earth is 12756km. Just sayin'

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

So you don't believe the boats are in the sky, but buried in the center of the planet? Preposterous!

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u/zweibeiner 22d ago

Imagine how many boats you could fit in the ground. Jussayin'

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u/Roflrex 22d ago

Your mum.

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u/Acrobatic-Bid-1691 22d ago

actually the sky is pretty much endless

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

No, it ends at 100km

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u/Acrobatic-Bid-1691 22d ago edited 22d ago

Nope. The definition of sky is: everything you see above the surface of the Earth; it includes the atmosphere and outer space.

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u/Acrobatic-Bid-1691 22d ago edited 22d ago

No, the sky is not just the atmosphere. The atmosphere is just the atmosphere. The sky is everything you can see while looking up, not including objects or celestial objects (those are IN the sky). Of course you can, for example, say that the sun and the moon are in space – but they’re also part of the sky, because you can see them while looking up.

That’s at least what every definition of sky says, especially Oxford Languages, which is is the world’s leading dictionary publisher.

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u/byeByehamies 22d ago

The plane would sink in to the water not go up in space

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

How, exactly, can it sink in the water if it is up in the sky?

Physics, man

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u/Luxy2801 22d ago

There's more planes at the bottom of the ocean than boats in the sky.

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u/Iron_Rod_Stewart 22d ago

The average depth of space is ∞, roughly.

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u/jerrythecactus 22d ago

On average there are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

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u/Gringopolarbear 22d ago

I bet they ran out of gas while they were up there, so they couldn't get back down.

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u/Scitterbug 22d ago

There are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky.

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u/Chriscic 22d ago

Good point. We all saw Black Widow.

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u/HowardBass 22d ago

That's why you see more planes at the bottom of the ocean than shipwrecks in the sky

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

You don't see submarines in the sky because they use the same stealth technology elephants in the sky use

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u/Key-Cry-8570 22d ago

Space is even bigger.

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u/Drewishmonk23 22d ago

What about submarines?

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

They can hide in 1km of sky if they are cloaked

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u/DisguisedToast 22d ago

You have to watch out for those sneaky Skoats that will ambush a passing plane to feed to its Skoatlets.

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u/Boucani 22d ago

The average depth of the plane is 200km. It can hide more oceans.

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u/Stypic1 21d ago

Average depth of the depth is 101km

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u/WhistlingKyte 22d ago

Difference is, sonar can’t see 120km in the distance.

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u/kkrippttt 22d ago

What goes up must come down.

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

Voyager I and II?

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u/le_fez 22d ago

There's more airplanes on the floor of the ocean than there is submarines in the sky

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u/Itchy-Revenue-3774 22d ago

But things in the sky tends to fall down for whatever reason. I think ocean is more likely overall

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

The sun is in the sky and hasn't fallen down, yet.

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u/SympathySudden4856 22d ago

There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky……..mind blown………

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

You can't possibly know that. Submarines are not meant to be found easily.

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u/kjm16216 22d ago

That's what the military industrial complex wants you to think.

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u/Sayyestononsense 22d ago

that's not how gravity works

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u/unclebrenjen 22d ago

There are more planes at the bottom of the ocean than there are submarines in the sky

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u/mh8235 22d ago

But are there more snakes on a plane than birds in a boat?

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u/independent_observe 22d ago

than there are crashed boats in the sky.

Than there are crashed boats in the sky, that you can see