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.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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But spoons are just tiny bowls to get food from the bigger bowl, man!
WRONG. Spoons are tiny ladles you degenerate. If you need a tiny bowl go get yourself a cup.
Ladles are just small bowls on a stick
Fish don’t really swim, they are flying through the water.
That is essentially what penguins do, yeah.
Air doesn't float, it just doesn't sink as hard
Water - swim
Air - fly
Space - ?? fly
Ground - dig?
Plasma - liquefy?
Plasma - liquefy?
You misspelled "vaporize"
What is a verb?
That's Phineas's step brother
And what is a platypus?
How high are you right now ?
They are so high, swimming way above the clouds.
yes
to fly and to swim are very different actions
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
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swim
Apparently, swimming inherently requires a liquid.
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)
Some birds fly through the water.
The common merganser, for instance.