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XeroxCool ,

This is the kind of thing that “makes sense and agrees with my beliefs” to his audience - people who don’t fly. His party hammers down on flyover state residents to make them think people in planes are snobs. This keeps them from flying. This keeps them from traveling. This promotes the local echo chambers throwing snowballs at the other side’s forts. This is by design.

intensely_human ,

I’ve seen so many planes grounded for weather at the denver airport. I wonder if his comments have something to do with that, instead of that nonsense theory

Filibuster_Rhymes ,

Trump is mistakenly equating electric planes with solar powered planes. It’s that simple. It was a snarky talking point on fox years ago to say that these planes would only be able to fly when it’s sunny. He tends to latch on to fox talking points and then jumble them up when speaking because he doesn’t have a very firm understanding of how things work.

XeroxCool ,

Fox says a thing as an opinion. Trump says the same thing as a statement because Fox viewers don’t know fact from opinion (or from “satire”, legally). Fox says Trump said the thing as a fact, so it must be fact. This is a feedback loop. This is by design.

n3m37h ,

Why the fuck would anyone listen to the dumbass who stared at a solar eclipse?

Zron ,

Other dumbasses who stared at the solar eclipse.

It’s hard to learn when you have a shitty education and also can’t read due to burned out retinas

andrewth09 ,

It’s like he takes fragments of memories and tries to make it a policy suggestion.

Bombing hurricanes was a theory in the atomic age and became an urban legend.

During a COVID briefing, he read a poster about how to disinfect surfaces and thought they would make suitable treatments.

With the electric aircraft thing he probably saw a tweet about NASA’s Pathfinder and made a ton of assumptions about electric aircraft.

It’s an incredibly stupid way to operate as someone who wants to lead the creation of policy.

intensely_human ,

And you just believe this headline, no critical thought on that front?

andrewth09 ,

“What happens if the sun isn’t shining while you’re up in the air?”

A quote from Donald J. Trump.

Did you just disregard the article based on only the headline?

Snapz ,

He’s an incredibly stupid man, so that makes sense.

cultsuperstar ,

Is anyone surprised that the man that suggested we nuke hurricanes doesn’t understand how battery-powered boats and planes work?

anarchist , (edited )
@anarchist@lemmy.ml avatar

Laughing at Trump has gotten old for me. He has bottomed out the level of idiocy so much that it’s just not funny anymore, almost like real-life flanderisation. If anything, it brings me sadness thinking how half of america is somehow more stupid than this guy.

If this community is going to be just a list of stupid shit Trump is going to say until the elections, I am not sure if I want it in my face every day, especially as a non-american. It must be possible for me to block posts based on words

Edit: At least on Eternity there is such a filter! I shall see nothing about this arsehole anymore

at_an_angle ,

Listen, man, just look at social media like once every 3-4 days. It’ll do wonders for you.

CableMonster ,

Its funny, I can not read a single word of that article and confidently say that he didnt suggest that. I can do this so easily because EVERY TIME these stories are exaggerations or directly manufactured stories based on “sources close to trump”.

uebquauntbez ,

Trump’s very interesting for all astrophysicists. His brains seems like a black hole. Some say there’s a whole new universe in it. Some say it’s terrible, no good place to live in, in there. So who’s right?

Vertelleus ,
@Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works avatar

Red eye flights are magic!?

JeeBaiChow ,

Hasn’t he heard of the flights that chase the sun? You can fly fast enough to remain in perpetual daylight, so it’s not really a problem.

0x0 ,

That’s a stupid idea. They could just start by flying the plane higher so it’s closer to the sun, then the batteries would charge up and they can fly anywhere.

JeeBaiChow ,

Kinda like superman. Which he’s not.

Otherwise, based on my information from conservatives, the plane would burn up because it’s out of the goldilocks zone.

BleatingZombie ,

I just hate those flights going 23 hours west

cabron_offsets ,

All we need is one fateful hamberder to deliver us from this ruin.

Pheonixdown ,

I’m not sure why light would matter, obviously if you’re flying you’d use wind over solar, there’s so much wind flowing around the planes it’d be a much more available and reliable source of power.

/s

Hadriscus ,

get this guy some funding !!!

ConstantPain ,

And make the plane path always decent so it can use gravity assist.

b000rg ,

And down with the paywall: archive.is link

kinkles ,
@kinkles@sh.itjust.works avatar

Asked what he thinks about a presidential candidate speaking about batteries this way, Sadoway laughed. “Are we talking about the scientific literacy of any candidate?” he said. “I question the scientific literacy of anybody who’s running for president.” He added: “There are so many battery posers out there who don’t know the cathode from the anode.”

Absolute battery chad

evidences ,

Pfft everyone knows oxidation happens at the anode and reduction happens at the cathode, this should not qualify me to run for office.

KittenBiscuits ,

I made a battery from a potato once. Am I disqualified from office?

TexasDrunk ,

I drank a drink made from a potato once and I say you’re qualified.

snausagesinablanket ,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

He will make it illegal to fly in the dark just to save face.

DarkCloud ,

It’s from a bit he does about solar powered planes, but everything is old and tired now, so he’s just skipping parts like a broken record, or mentally degenerating flesh monster finally in its dying stages.

mkwt ,

For a while the only electric aircraft around in the news was that solar flyer. Things are a bit different now.

errer ,

Yeah the Atlantic article here is going a bit far saying “no planes are solar powered” when yes, there are some out there that actually are…

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