• @[email protected]
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    108 months ago

    Wow… The innovation… Sails on ships… Next they add wheels to sleighs, These nerdy bastards

    • MacOP
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      378 months ago

      Rather than usual sails these are solid and foldable and act more like plane wings

      • Jake Farm
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        28 months ago

        I mean sails form an aerofoil but these are ridged aerofoils.

    • @[email protected]
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      Its actually better than sails as they can be folded away and there are no masts That could hinder the ship driving under a bridge.

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      • @Mango
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        Sails can be folded away and what do you call those big vertical things in the picture?

        • @[email protected]
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          Sails cannot be folded away, they can be rolled in, this however doesn’t change the hight of the mast they are on. Also the weight/drag ratio seems to be better.

          • @Mango
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            We can’t find fabric anymore? Shit. And I suppose we can’t collapse a mast the way these guys collapse a mast if there’s fabric involved. Oh well.

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                Bro do you really think that? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

                We have dramatically better flexible teenage materials than any metal you can think of. Ever heard of kevlar? That’s only the cheapest and most well known example too! Don’t tell me you’re not embarrassed to have said that shit.

                • @[email protected]
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                  78 months ago

                  I will just block you now, you are annoying, you don’t understand shit (or don’t want to) and you are immature.

                  • @Mango
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                    -218 months ago

                    I’d rather be immature and right than anything like you.

    • @[email protected]
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      308 months ago

      lowkey tired of being able to guess the exact snarky deadpan top comment before opening the post

      no hate to you commenter. :) its a funny comment and the world is fucked i just wish we could for once be genuinely happy and celebrate that engineers are helping us do better