Something deeply silly about this “we don’t know how aerodynamic lift works” article doing the rounds. Mystery is not in the phenomenon but in people’s weird expectations of what “explanations” ought to be able to accomplish. Cc @gravity_levityhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/ …
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Not my conscious intention, but who knows what confusions lurk in the depths of my psyche?
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If you "attack" rationality without explaining another way of making sense of reality, you'll just come across as a proponent of woo. The latter two seem obviously related.
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