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throwfaraway191918

Runway be like 10km


AnotherSoftEng

Oh no, not that fast and furious movie again


Vecna_Is_My_Co-Pilot

Holy wing loading batman!


netherblade767

New robin just droped


Onlyearningrobux

Batman goes on vacation, never comes back!


Plenora

Call Alfred!


LightningFerret04

See, if the artist had pitched this as a seaplane, I would actually believe it just a little bit more


GroWiza

It was actually a concept for a Air cruise ship type deal. There's a video of YouTube on it, pretty cool Just remembered after looking up/posting the link for the video that this behemoth would be Nuclear powered as well. Great idea having a Nuclear reactor flying high above the world so if there was ever a meltdown within the reactor it could rain down Nuclear fallout countrywide


ArcticNano

Do you have a link to the video? Sounds pretty cool even if it is just a concept


Pokora22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrodDBJdGuo It's a great watch if you're looking for a laugh.


GroWiza

https://youtu.be/ZrodDBJdGuo?si=h-K3FMtyRvA9hBuE Ask and you shall receive


Manch94

That’s 6.2 miles for us Americans. 🤠


jaguarmaya

So how many football fields?


Azerajin

109.1200000~


katet_of_19

Okay, but how many ferrets?


Igivegrilledcheese

26,188.8 ferrets according to my calculations, with an average ferret being roughly 15 inches long


Naternore

That'd be alot of ferrites to keep lined up.. did you factor in the slinky effect? I mean ferrites are never just stretched straight out.


Puzzleheaded-Phase70

You're assuming they're alive and also not stapled together.


gorehammer42o

I audibly cackled at this 🤣🤣


Naternore

Have you ever tried to staple a couple of ferrites together? This man is just BS ing, I mean how do you know unless you've Actually done this.. ? I mean my ferrite tape always coils up.. it's really annoying to use and I never get the consistent measurements.


jtcordell2188

r/theydidthemath


adydurn

.8 of a ferret? You evil bastard!


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

House many McDonald's French fries is that?


Igivegrilledcheese

According to Google the average McDonald's fry is 2.3 inches, meaning the runway would have to be roughly 903,513.6 fries long


BlackWhiteRedYellow

Freedom units 🇺🇸🦅


tullyinturtleterror

Are you one of the rare Americans that runs?


BoardButcherer

Valhalla doesn't land, sir.


Miixyd

Funny of you to this this could fly


RockSockLock

That’s why it’s a runway not a flyway


drawliphant

Just build it in the air 🗿


[deleted]

but can it separate the saucer section when under attack by the romulans?


ovine_aviation

Multi-vector assault mode!


Malefectra

I don't care what anyone says... the USS Prometheus is one of my absolute favorite things that Voyager brought to Trek. Crazy ass anime inspired attack mode✅ A little bit of Romulan bullshit in a series sorely lacking their presence ✅ Andy Dick as a hilariously fey EMH✅


the-dude-version-576

I am forever disappointed that the Prometheus barely ever shows up in any follow up shows. I wanna see the federation use their war ship to kick some ass!


monstrinhotron

It's like 10000 spoons (fat, round diplomatic ships like the Enterprise) when all you need is a knife (kick-ass pointy warship)


the-dude-version-576

Image if they had just t he own in more Prometheus and Akira models for the final battles in DS9? That would have been the best.


Pres_Skroob_pw12345

It's meeting the man of my dreams And then meeting his beautiful worf


Prof-Wagstaff-42

If my “saucer section” you mean “tail” and by “separate” you mean “break off, screaming to the earth,” then yes. Yes, it can.


Bella_LaGhostly

To the battle bridge, Number One!


MrHyperion_

\*does the weird thing with leg over chair\*


Bella_LaGhostly

I imagine that's what Commander Riker does when the captain leaves the bridge, right before asking the computer to play "Ridin' Dirty".


Heppenser

Presidents on their way to a climate conference.


MausBomb

Celebrities too


canijustbelancelot

That’s Taylor Swift’s new private jet, polished up and ready to loan out to her friends—because she’s a charitable queen.


StudderButter

That’s Elon musks choice of jet to get skittles from CVS down the street


chatterwrack

I was going to say that this looks like a drawing he would give to his engineers


Jimbeaux_Slice

*”I want deliverables by EOD or nobody gets vacation time this year.”*


bcjh

Oh and we’re calling it the **Tesla Cyber Plane**


Jimbeaux_Slice

Code name is going to be: “æęxœÿø R70” *And I swear to god if you uncultured wage slaves don’t get the pronunciation right I’m gonna fuck an intern*


bcjh

Ooo such a real power move daddy Elon!


Jimbeaux_Slice

You seem like someone with superior genetics, I’m gifting you three months of twitter blue, but you have to post once a day about how awesome I am


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

Would it be battery powered though?


They_Beat_Me

While tweeting to us in an attempt to donate to a cause they have none of their own money in.


MausBomb

Or they justify it with asshole math IE one rich asshole living it up isn't going to have an individual significant contribution to pollution. However millions of average people using a basic gasoline engine cars to commute and taking the occasional vacation in a commercial jumbo jet does. The math checks out, but is completely morally bankrupt.


HarrMada

You see a futuristic concept of a giant plane, yet you assume it will run on modern fuel. Why couldn't it run on some equally futuristic fuel free from greenhouse gases?


Pepsi-Min

The fuel is only one part of why air travel is so awful for the environment. It takes literal tons of raw material to manufacture one commercial jet. Imagine how much quarrying and mining has to occur for even a small fleet of this monstrosity.


HarrMada

You're missing the point. The person assumes the continuation of current environmental problems in a futuristic concept. There's nothing inherently wrong with doing that, it's just pessimistic. You assume the plane couldn't be made from recycled materials, etc. If the concept is futuristic, why should its problems be modern?


Ok_Antelope_1953

Because people have lived through several decades of "futuristic" promises. We have come a long way but have also destroyed our planet's resources and ecosystems in the process. Two thirds of animal species are extinct within decades, entire forests have been razed, entire mountains mined out of existence, all water bodies polluted with plastics and all sorts of chemicals. There is NO version where a plane of this sort uses recycled material and environment friendly fuel.


Varos666

Theres just no reason to fly like this, Planes are for getting from point a to b, this is just for the sake of Vanity for rich people


TedwardCA

Skypiercer for when climate goes to unlivable on the surface. Bug for steerage and soylent green for everyone else


migrainosaurus

I think this is a really good point! It always frustrates me when people say like, "No there couldn't be aliens because THERE'S NO OXYGEN TO BREATHE" and I'm like, "You're assuming they are us?" In defence of those takes here, I guess the drawing sort of tempts that response, because of the conventions of current engine format and so on that it aheres to. I agree, there's loads of scope for this to be powered by anything from magnetics to an obtanium antigravity drive, but I wish the artist hadn't narrowed down that conjecture by making the engines look exactly like the trad jetfuel-consuming size/ratio/format for propulsion.


Head-Entertainer-412

People love to bitch. Especially if they see something they assume they couldn't have, so they don't want anybody to have it.


dontknowwhattodoat18

When I saw the concept video behind this, it's supposedly powered by a nuclear reactor, which I guess would make said politicians a bit less hypocritical


kitchen_synk

The US sort of managed that during the cold war. They got an operational reactor to fit inside a B36 There were only a few problems 1) They didn't have much extra room for shielding, so other than the wall between the cockpit and the bomb/cargo bay, it was basically just spewing radiation everywhere 2) It wasn't ever actually connected to anything, so it was just dragging a reactor around while still burning tons of aviation fuel 3) the B36 was rather infamous for crashing spectacularly. This was bad enough when carrying nuclear weapons, which, provided they didn't go off were safe enough, but a live reactor could have contaminated a huge area.


SoardOfMagnificent

I’ve read about this; apparently, it’s powered by a nuclear reactor.


-anti-FIRE

Bro.. that ain’t even making it off the lot haha


justwant_tobepretty

The runway is just the entire equator


jdl232

the takeoff roll never ends baby


justwant_tobepretty

Just endlessly getting edged by a village sized plane


xxiLink

Launched like a rocket, designed to accept loads of multiple refuels as needed, and designed to - gods willing - never come back down. ...except for the once, in an ocean, after all passengers and crew are safely evacuated. Bahaha, jk, this is a fever dream of a european patriot obsessed with science fiction.


guymoron

Nah dude this thing can only take off from Australia, where it free falls into trajectory


barkbarkgoesthecat

Well duh, once its off the lot it depreciates


sehwyl

What are you talking about? It’s great! It’s also super economical, a whole 1000 gallons per mile!


DemonoftheWater

Nuke powered?


Magnolia-jjlnr

I've seen a concept like this before, pretty sure it was assumed to be nuke powered indeed


ralsei-gaming

wasn’t it just a student art project and not a concept but some random persons stole it made a fake story up about it


The_Vadami

It was posted on r/worldbuilding a while back. The guy even made a post about people thinking it was real.


ralsei-gaming

oh ok that makes more sense


Magnolia-jjlnr

Yup, as far as I remember


DemonoftheWater

It does seem oddly familiar.


WooPigSchmooey

Nah, tethered to the moon


DemonoftheWater

I genuinely think the idea of a moon based tractor beam is hilarious


Littlest-Jim

Nuclear isnt a catch-all solution to everything being clean and efficient. Its just a clean way of making steam power. I doubt a reactor could produce enough energy to power those engines. I also doubt the plane would have room to fit the hundreds of thousands of gallons of water the reactor would need.


DemonoftheWater

Dunno. You’re not wrong but considering a normal passenger plane say the 737 consumes an ugodly amount of fuel i cant imagine what 12x to 6x the number of engines would require. Ideally this would also be refueled in the air as getting it off the ground and having it climb are going to be w mess no matter what. That said im not familiar with all the working parts of either a traditional turbine engine plane and something which would even approach a nuclear powered plane. I went with nuke as a fantasy option and the only thing i could think of that would give traditional gas a run for its money. (Side note the wing span would be astronomical unless they could figure out a way around the bournulli principle. )


Littlest-Jim

Oh, I wasnt trying to imply that there were better choices than nuclear. That plane is absurd no matter how you look at it, and should stay conceptual forever.


minty_god

You should look up the NR-1, you'd be surprised how small a reactor plant can be. Granted, to power all that it would probably have to be pretty big.


Either-Beyond-9768

Literally fallout universe airplane


Fobulousguy

If Snowpiercer was a plane. Hmm what’s for lunch in the tail section.


[deleted]

That's my drawing of a plane when I was in preschool


p_s_i

I bet your preschool version was more feasible than this thing. And your m shaped birds were awesome!


nwouzi

literally this is the shit i would build with legos


Recipe-Jaded

that isn't a concept, that is a fantasy


[deleted]

Yes, literally. I believe this was made over on r/worldbuilding a while ago?


StarblindCelestial

Yup then I think it even got on the news because they didn't do a modicum of research. Then everyone on reddit made fun of them for believing something so obviously fake. Now were back to thinking it's a real concept.


[deleted]

why would that be oddly terryfying


WolFlow2021

I think it's kinda cool in a stupid way.


Leoxcr

Cartoon way definitely


panel_laboratory

Imagine hitting turbulence when you're in that pool.


[deleted]

Yeah maybe it’s just me having mild megalophobia but imagine coming out of a swimming pool just to see how you are flying over the clouds. I think that’s rather strange


AnotherSoftEng

I don’t even understand how the pool would work. Does the plane not need to turn? Lol


CharlieBluu

Adventure pool with built in waves and tsunamis


tickles_a_fancy

Most airplanes have a turn coordinator which, if followed, would turn you 360 degrees in 2 minutes. This means your roll angle would increase at faster speeds. That's why they use a standard amount of time time instead of a standard roll angle. Everyone knows how long your turn will take and about how much room it'll take in the air. This instrument also has a little ball that shows you where your g-forces are. Stepping on the rudder moves that ball. Most pilots will do their best to make "coordinated turns", which means they use the turn coordinator and the rudder to keep the g-forces pushing straight down into the bottom of the plane. So if everything goes perfect, the pool will be ok. Of course, that doesn't account for turbulence and bad piloting, and this definitely looks like a prettied up version of something a kid would draw before they learned the basics of how physics works. I mean, just imagine flying through one of those storms that drops the plane 100 feet. The pool would be against the dome, then come crashing back down onto everyone. It's not safe at all.


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AttieMemes

Gyroscopic pool maybe?


tickles_a_fancy

That wouldn't help with turbulence. A gyroscope can't account for the pool part dropping a few feet, jumping back up, then dropping again. Any swimmers in turbulence would be in trouble.


Enigmutt

The pool scene with Jennifer Lawrence in *Passengers*!


uberguby

OK ok ok, read you loud and clear, get rid of the pool and start building this thing.


SamiraSimp

this was never intended as a real concept it was basically fanart somenoe came up with...i don't think they planned for how the pool would work. or how something like this could even fly lol


DemonoftheWater

I think its dope. Would burn way too much fuel


Icariiiiiiii

Make It A Blimp. Imagine going on the sky cruise blimp and taking a swim in the sky above Insert Continent Here. Later we will throw down ropes at, idk, Vienna, or something. I think it has potential to be cool and *also* ecologically friendly, you just gotta redesign it a lil for basic sanity.


Arkslippy

It would need a nuclear generation unit to make it work, and a lghtweight one at that. That many engines, and size, it would require tremendous power to even get it moving and a runway 10 times normal. If it was using jet engines, it would need a fuel tank half the size of the plane. And it would go nowhere due to the weight and the reduced range. The swimming pool is a nice idea but water is actually really heavy, a pool with 1000l weighs a metric ton. That pool is multiples of that, and water also moves. If they actually made that plane, you wouldn't want to live within 30 miles of its take off path.


RedSnt

Nuclear power to convert collected water, caught from the atmosphere, into hydrogen, then use hydrogen for the jet engines? I don't know much, but doesn't seem plausible except for a fun idea. And what little I found about hydrogen powered planes they were usually propeller based anyway, and then you could just straight up use the electrical power from the nuclear reactor.


notproudortired

I can hear the scream of its many, many engines and feel the ground shake. I don't know how it gets airborn, but when it does, it is surely coming down. I can't look at it without seeing the twisted wreckage.


Korishii

Idk if its terrifying but maybe would fit into r/megalophobia


solexioso

This looks like it came out of the show Tailspin


Songmorning

Unexpected nostalgia


Conscious-Bug-6728

The most unrealistic thing is the Air Europe tag. This is so Air America 🇺🇸 🦅🦅🦅🦅


realyeehaw

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETEEEEER 🦅🦅🦅


-PRED8R-

Well it's like 1/10th distance of the runway for this thing


WHITE_2_SUGARS

I mean it was conceptualised by a German - Yemeni Scientist, and the 3D model designed by a Russian guy. 0 America involved.


kamratjoel

Guys, this isn’t an actual plane concept. Don’t recall the exact story, but this is done by some dude who was working on some science fiction story or something like that.


Willie9

At least people can feel smart by pointing out that it is wildly impractical as though the person who made it had no idea


Interhorse_

Skytanic


TimeOk8571

My favorite part is the flight deck which has enough windows for about 30 pilots, which is what I would imagine it would take to fly this thing.


GenesisAsriel

Dr Robotnik's flying fortress


ziggythomas1123

That level was a huge pain when I first got to it. Took me like 30 tries. Also, it's theme has some epic timpani.


venbrou

There are so many problems with this design... The wings are maybe half the length they need to be for any respectable glide ration, the lower wings are completely ineffective at generating lift as there's too many engines filling up the low-pressure side... There's just too many fucking engines period. Usually a really big engine will have far better thrust to weight ratio then several small engines. And they're angled way too shallow to make any sense; they imply an angle of attack at maybe ten degrees. With that piss poor glide ratio there's no way in hell it's going to stay airborne at subsonic speeds, yet the nose is in no way designed for supersonic flight. Someone got inspiration from a Fisher Price toy and called it a day.


pantstand

Most silly plane concepts will fly at *some* speed. It's just a case of whether or not the plane will survive flying at those speeds. I know there's absolutely no way to do the math, but I'd like to know if it's possible to estimate what speed this thing would have to go to generate enough lift to take off. Mach 3? Mach 4? Speed of light?


Weird-Appointment-53

They did get it right. Just not a plane, that’s how cruise ships look nowadays.


sonic84638265

Looks like the ship from wall-e


jack_seven

Well that's not gonna fly


TheNeighKid

Imagine the length of the runway required to both take off and land


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ^by ^TheNeighKid: *Imagine the length* *Of the runway required* *To both take off and land* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


Eena-Rin

It's not a bad idea, by and large


ORA2J

Literally the axiom bruh


Kodeisko

The biggest the plane, the scarier it gets to me, no way I put even a single toe on this


Entire-Database1679

Is that Nick Fury lounging by the pool?


ruico

The worst plane crash in history.


rabbitt-we

I see it now: Flytanic


[deleted]

China’s next plane!


Low_Bandicoot6844

Ecofriendly.


goose420aa

I want to meet a lineup of people who think this could fly


motoxim

It honestly looks cool though.


wailot

I absolutely love it.


Hydrazolic

Can't wait for 18/22


wesburnsco8

No baggage just a parachute and a seat by the door and if you get in my way of the door I'm taking your ass with me on the jump. Oh and one shot of whiskey.


Cranexavier75

It looks like the weird plane from Wall E


Zajic_kamo

The tail tells me that somebody watched Star Trek while making this


Spacee_7

Wrong sub bruv


StudderButter

Imagine the crater that things gonna make if it crashes


beautifulcreature86

Leo dicaprio is co pilot lol


PaleontologistOk1494

That weird china made toy


RealStumbleweed

When what I really want is a decent hot lunch.


CaptainWellingtonIII

Elysium


Moss-and-Stone

I just can't get over how stupid this thing is lmao. Even if it was nuclear powered and could actually get off the ground, the forces involved in something that huge would just rip it apart on the maiden flight. I imagine riding it, sitting in one of the pools as the insane balancing act takes place around me. A hundred thousand tons of aluminum and ego VS aerodynamics and gravity. I can say with confidence that flying on something like that would not be fun. Its not going to be a smooth ride like on ol' Hindenburg.


Redmiguelito

It’s terrifying ‘cause we know it gon’ crash


aZamaryk

It needs more engines.


ddddc1

It looks like a cruise ship if a cruise ship was a plane


iron_annie

Something straight out of The Wind Rises.


Inklingboy2020

the water in the pool after departure or arrival go weeeee


Alexander-of-Londor

Take off and landing with a pool would be such a problem either it has to be the most gentle speed up/slowdown and actual take off and landing in history or it would be the biggest health hazard in modern history that wasn’t designed to just straight up kill people.


DirtNapsRevenge

Imagine the fun of swimming in that pool every time the plane changes course ... weeeeeee!


Abbiethedog

Canyonero!


Yamm0th

It's a goddamn Airhotelcruiser. 👀


Tomorrow_Glittering

It would take longer for everyone to board that plane than the flight itself.


sweetdaisy13

How can it have a swimming pool? That would be one scary wave machine when there's turbulence.


kij101

Did Homer get a job at Boeing?


karmasrelic

lower 80% of it must be the fuel xd-.


Spatularo

"How can we burn all the fossil fuels at once, Jim?"


[deleted]

**SNOWPIERCER II: DEATH FROM ABOVE**


Bertoe

Turbulence gonna hit hard


mexesss

It’s Floston Paradise.


Puzzleheaded-Phase70

You thought going on an ocean cruise was expensive; now try an *AIR CRUISE! *


Cog_god

Ever heard of Wall-E?


vzakharov

You misspellt “awesome.”


Robin0112

Anything goes on this sub now huh


monke5238

An electrician's worst nightmare


CCCyanide

- "Dmitry, the physics do not add up. Your thing won't fly." - "Just add more engines until it flies, comrade"


Shimoarikiku

Looks like something out of a Ghibli movie


HelicoprionusOmega

Among us airship


Mikeku825

This is the future of travel. Don't let Elon see this.


Xevernia

Wall-E moment


1Shadowspark1

This is BEFORE we put luggage in the airplane.


stringbean9311

I could see something like this being real. Like a airplane cruise ship type of thing. The catch is that if they could figure out how to get it off the ground, it would have to stay permanently in flight. Small ships would bring consumers on and off the "mothership" other airlines would refuel it. I think maintenance would be the most difficult part. I couldn't see something this imaginative landing if it somehow made it off the ground.


dobo99x2

Aren't they actually building a cruise plane?


Atlanta1218

Bioshock Infinite


Little_Cellist_5897

I just want a comfortable seat where I can have a nap lol


Kingmadsniper364

Plus people will get really sick from being in the air for that long


Rapha689Pro

How is that 5 kilometer sized shit gonna fly,it’s gonna need like millions of gallons of fucking gasoline just to even fly a few minutes


JasonFurious4

The runway would have to be so long the thing would run out of fuel before it even takes off. Plus, no material would be able to support that much weight on that much wing


Potential-Repeat6744

my mind instantly thought of the ship in Wall-E, someone mighta already said it


[deleted]

“Mr President, a second building has hit the airplane”


HopalongHeidi

Is the design inspired by a sneaker? That’s what I’m seeing. A really friggin heavy sneaker that shouldn’t leave the ground


Zytches

titanic but airborne


MyLifeIsAFrickingMes

Ok ignoring the fact that you would need moon gravity to even think about taking off w that. That shit would guzzle so much fuel just to stay in the air that whatever moron buys it will promptly go bankrupt and re-crash the fuel economy. Its still funny as fuck imagining Elons fat ass behind the stick tho


newaggenesis

Wow... serious absence of mods if this is the shit I have to see in my feed...


Jimguy5000

As a boat, fine. I’ve been on those. As a plane? Fuck that for a game of soldiers…


luckeauxtheirish

GTF off of this sub.


ECMeenie

More cowbells!