Landing gear like that would be much heavier, adding to the plane's total weight, reducing fuel efficiency, requiring MORE fuel, which adds MORE weight, which results in more of the plane's payload needing to be fuel instead of passengers and cargo, while providing little benefit
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Replying to @FartCaptor @Random832 and
Couldn't have said it better myself, yeah basically aviation IE making a huge hunk of metal fly by strapping some engines to it, is insanely precision complicated to actually make work
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @FartCaptor and
This is also tied to the square cube law, people don't really think about how much the impact force of falling increases as objects get bigger
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
It's completely impossible for a bug to be damaged by falling in any way (it hits terminal velocity in the atmosphere very quickly) It's pretty hard for a cat to break something by falling, for a human it's pretty easy, for a horse it's almost inevitable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
When you build something the size of a 747, the process of gently setting it on the ground so nothing breaks is an incredibly complex engineering problem
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
Hence the ridiculousness of giant mecha anime Even if you could build something like that that could stand up, having it walk without the impact smashing up its leg with every step would be several times more difficult
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
Having it *fall over* without crunching into ruined scrap metal would be impossible (can a regular building fall over and stay intact?) As would the problem of standing up again from a prone position
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
(I did like them slightly nodding to realism in the MCU, when Giant-Man falls over he simply can't stand up again unless he shrinks first, and the whole process is incredibly exhausting)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
This is a whole evolutionary biology topic It's a tradeoff for us to be bipeds, we get many advantages from being tall and having hands but the flipside is if we suddenly lose our balance we can seriously hurt ourselves Basically not a concern for most quadrupeds
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FartCaptor and
That was a big thing in the Ultimate Comics, that giant man could only get so big or hed be so large he couldn't support himself
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Giant-Man's canonical size is already way above that limit, it only makes sense if the Pym Particles are already compensating to some degree (but apparently can't compensate perfectly)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
Just like, conversely, Ant-Man obviously isn't actually 200 pounds of mass compressed into the size of an ant, or he'd break most of the things he stands on
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
I don't just mean the stuff where he runs across a clothesline or whatever, I mean him falling from a table onto the floor and not punching a hole through the floor
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