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[–] EF5C_EF5C 6 points 5 months ago

Reminds me of Spy magazine's analysis of our good friend Santa Claus: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-physics-of-santa-and-his-reindeer/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Also to make him a prince wouldn't there have to be a lineage with wars won and lost families created and torn apart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

The most interesting part is...what constitutes "him"? What if he became a prince by having his DNA from his father replaced?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 3 points 5 months ago

Aladdin's exact words were "Genie, I wish for you to make me a prince." I always assumed that that meant that the wish merely caused a compulsion in the Genie to use his "standard," non-wish-granting powers to make Aladdin as prince-like as possible. If he'd instead phrased it as "I wish to be a prince" then it would have caused reality to alter to give him a genuine royal lineage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Ptolemy: 'Am I a joke to you?'

[–] niktemadur 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but what about the Parker Solar Probe?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Relativistic_sex_meme.elf

[–] anas 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They didn’t leave the atmosphere for reentry to affect them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They didn’t leave the atmosphere

That just makes the aerodynamic heating effects worse.

[–] anas 1 points 5 months ago

(which does not protect from atmospheric reentry)

I know, I was mainly referencing this part, which I now realize I forgot to quote

[–] RampantParanoia2365 1 points 5 months ago

Well, Egypt isn't "the world", is it?

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