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Wow... The innovation... Sails on ships... Next they add wheels to sleighs, These nerdy bastards
can't we just enjoy positive changes for a second?
Rather than usual sails these are solid and foldable and act more like plane wings
I mean sails form an aerofoil but these are ridged aerofoils.
Sails can be folded away and what do you call those big vertical things in the picture?
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.
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.
I'd rather be immature and right than anything like you.
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
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