• wizzor@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    I would have a hard time tossing a crumpled paper ball further than a good paper airplane would go.

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      Gotta crumple it as tightly as possible. A loose paper ball isn’t gonna go anywhere but a tight one will go far. It’s all about maximizing cross sectional density!

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        I won’t my paper airplane competition several times in grade school. I was a G. It went way farther than a tightly balled up piece of paper.

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      A good plane required mathematical precision, not fanciness. In theory they take about a minute to make. The son did not make a mathematically precise plane.

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      That’s what I was thinking. The most basic paper airplane, the kind that looks like a fighter jet, will cover a football stadium if thrown right.

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      Yeah, this guy hasn’t seen many paper airplanes apparently

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        y’all clearly never played paper football.

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        I flicked one across the basketball court in highschool, bleachers to bleachers.

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          And sadly it’s still the conventional football players that get the trophies.