How do you move the planes around if the entire tarmac is filled with these? Seems a little impractical.
Comment on Lawyer here: I concur!
radiofreebc@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Have these guys never been to an airport? There are trucks like this all over the tarmac.
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 2 hours ago
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Sometimes you come up with a genius idea only to realize you’ve reinvented the train.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Honestly take these as wins. Clearly it was a good idea.
… or just pulled the idea from subconscious memory…
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I thought I invented the word “tragicomedy”
slothrop@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
The Germans invented it first, with ‘tragikkomeßdykompenbursteißn’ *
*disclaimer: not 100% sure
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
I love the joke, but there is actually a German word for this: Tragikomödie.
It is a compound noun formed by combining Tragödie (tragedy) and Komödie (comedy).
This term was notably used in German Romanticism and later in 20th-century drama (for example like Brecht or Dürrenmatt) to describe works that refuse to fit neatly into a single emotional category.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
It’s apparently attested since at least the 2nd century BCE; Roman playwright Plautus is usually credited with coining the term.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Adam Something, is that you?
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
Convergent evolution
deacon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I think you are thinking of belt loaders, which have a long flat bed on them.
Except, BAM - it’s not a flat bed, it’s a moving conveyor belt that is raised to carry the bags and cargo from those carts into the plane.
Unless you’re thinking of something else. But I think you’re thinking of something like this:
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Or, it’s a self unloading flat bed ;)
mech@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Hmm, makes sense.
You’d need a long bed to transport the planes.
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
A port made entirely of air? Who do you think I am, some kind of idiot?!
bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
No, it’s Japanese so the port side is on the right.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Fun fact! The literal translation of airport in Japanese is ‘sky harbour’
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 19 minutes ago
It’s the same in English…
glibg10b@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
In Afrikaans too. Probably in a lot of languages
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
Introducing the new Apple AirPort
fartographer@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That’s what I’m calling vents from now on
jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
How hot are your apples getting?