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submitted 9 months ago by Womble@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Because Boeing were on such a good streak already...

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[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz -4 points 9 months ago

Elevators don't travel any distance so if anyone is hurt by one they immediately lose by your metrics

[-] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 12 points 9 months ago

are you 100% sure that elevators don't travel any distance? or are we going to argue semantics over what distance is or isn't.

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[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Just throwing this out - do we include the altitude the plane climbs in its distance traveled?

[-] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

sure. why the hell not? lets go nuts on these data points.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

You would need to keep track of how high airplanes fly if you did argue semantics

[-] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

in three dimensions you have three axis. all of those measure distance traveled from 0.

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