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
LIES! YOU AND ASUKASA WILL NEVER KILL THE DREAM OF MECHA!!!
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
The solution to giant mechs is to use a shrink ray to make the people and city tiny
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Replying to @Kthranos @BootlegGirl and
Yeah well then the people all die like instantly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Kthranos and
I admit I did read a book (Laurence Yep's Monsters Inc., written decades before the Pixar movie) about a future genetic engineering company whose proof of concept is making a "functional Godzilla" who is two feet tall
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Their tech demo is having the little guy knock down a miniature cardboard Tokyo, it's adorable The big finale is him using his fire breath to torch the knocked over models (real working fire breath that doesn't kill the animal took them years to perfect)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Kthranos and
In order to make the fire compounds he has to eat a ton of calories per day and then spend most of his time sleeping, which matches his fictional source material but also demonstrates why Godzillas didn't evolve in nature
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