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i'm on a boat!! (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Good thing no one risked boating before Archimedes invented bouyancy ๐Ÿ™

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I heard people used to just float around before Newton invented gravity.

But I'm not sure. I think that's just hot air.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

That's brilliant

PS: English is not my first language so I had to confirm if "hot air" is an idiom

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'd imagine people moved around using giant levers, his guess what?