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ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 12 天前

How horses fly on planes

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How horses fly on planes

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ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 12 天前
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  • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Why are they flying horses, jesus, just pick up a rental horse at the destination.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      deleted by creator

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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      Lots of money in show jumping

      TOTAL PRIZE MONEY | 4.1 million CAD

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        Horse racing too

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          Thankfully not as much as there used to be. 6/9 tracks closed this last year in California alone.

          #KillRacingNotHorses

      • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org
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        we all know a rental car horse is the fastest car horse in the world.

        Just make sure you get the Altima to ensure victory, even if it is tempting to pony up for a pony car .

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        You can show a horse jumping without having to fly them somewhere.

    • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Wait until you learn how expensive certain horses are

      • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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        12 天前

        A syringe of cum from a decent race horse will set you back about €600 or more (if I remember correctly).

        • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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          That’s the price for just a papered horse. A horse with a few wins and a good line will run you around 5-10k. Then a horse with even better set of papers/lineage and wins, will push into 25k easy. Rich ass people will buy a horse that’s won a lot for a few million, then stand the horse at stud with a vet and collect checks for years until it’s swimmers start slowing down. Then they basically drain the poor bastard dry and then sell or get rid of him. The horse world is filled with shit people, who don’t really give a fuck about the animals.

        • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          12 天前

          I can do that cheaper.

          • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world
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            12 天前

            You have to be decent tho

        • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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          12 天前

          Almost as expensive as printer ink

          • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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            12 天前

            😭

        • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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          12 天前

          That makes for expensive shots

          • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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            12 天前

            I prefer rum anyway so it’s not much of an issue…

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              12 天前

              Ah, the classic Rum and Cock!

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    I didn’t read the article, but I assume they have to customize all the controls so a horse hoof can still operate them. That alone would make the cockpit huge.

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      They were. Just Google huge horse cockpits

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      I didn’t read the article

      What article? Isn’t this just an image post?

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        Don’t know; didn’t click.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Looks like they’re standing, not flying. 🤔

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      12 天前

      Just wait till the plane does one of those special nosedives

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      12 天前

      They might be hovering. Hard to tell.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      12 天前

      I know it’s weird because whenever I fly, I’m actually sitting.

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        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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          12 天前

          Yes just like that.

    • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz
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      11 天前

      The photo shows the inside of the giant cannon the horses are about to be shot from.

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    Funfact: there are several airlines specializing in horse transport. One of them is called “Air Horse One”.

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    This is what’s wrong with this fucking world.

    Flying goddamn horses, and people can’t afford medicine or rent.

    • michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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      At least the horses are working

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    Fun fact: This was in fact a parabolic flight. NASA was trying to figure out how horses would behave on the ISS and if they can be used as emotional support animals for stressed out astronauts.

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      I want this to be true.

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        Name checks out.

      • gandalf_der_12te
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        i want this to be false.

        it would be animal abuse

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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      I’d suggest a sloth, instead. I feel like a sloth would get along just fine in zero-G.

      • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Alright Bud, you go ahead and argue with Commander Williams, why he is not allowed to take his emotional support horsie on that space station.

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          There’s a horsieeeee
          Who’s heading for the Sun
          He’d like to be back home
          With a box of apples for everyone

          https://youtu.be/a_EDpth9xvU

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      We’d better get a Space Cowboys movie out of this!

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        Shoot out at the meo corral.

      • gandalf_der_12te
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        for the uninitiated

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      I cannot imagine the vet bill were that true.

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      Why…pray tell…would anyone want to know how horses would behave on the ISS? You couldn’t even fit a horse in that thing!

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      Space stallions.

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    What is that gray thing on their neck?

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
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      Neck pillow, duh.

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      Some sort of loose restraint so they can’t rear back maybe?

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        Maybe so they can’t bite each other

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          Ryanair taking notes.

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        Probably the same reason humans wear seat belts on an airplanes… prevents them from hitting the ceiling when the plane does a barrel role.

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          Thanks, Peppy Hare.

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      I am not sure - this was originally posted to Reddit 3 years ago, and it doesn’t look like anyone asked that question.

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      Sound cancelling headphones.

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      might be another of those calming devices like the ones they put on their lips? (reddit link)

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    The smell in there must be ungodly

    • Dettweiler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Just wait until you have to peel back the gill liner during heavy check.

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        I choose to believe these are fake terms

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          You’d clamp that noiserator too if you’d seen the flack-end of a swot bristler take down a hummer at thirty thousand high

        • Dettweiler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          At some point, all that plastic covering the walls comes off during a long maintenance cycle, and there’s usually concentrated horse piss waiting for you where it meets the floor.

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    I don’t understand, how do they get the food and drinks trolley past all that?

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    Ok now show us how planes fly on horses.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    How else would they fly? They don’t have wings

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    I’ve had it with all these motherfucking horses on this motherfucking plane!

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    Business class, nice! Can I have prosecco instead of champagne? Thanks.

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      Sorry, all we have is Chardonneigh.

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        Is that the wine, or the name of the cabin crew serving it?

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          Just the wine. The crew serving it is called Sotally Tober.

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    If they are flying they are actually called Pegasuses not horses.

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      Pegasus was just the personal name of the last of the winged horses, not the name of the species.

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    you know, we had a way of transporting horses way back in time; it was called “riding”. basically the horses have legs and they can walk … (/s)

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      Unfortunately they refuse to cross the ocean when you’re riding them.

    • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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      I love you for this comment

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        I divorce you for this one

      • gandalf_der_12te
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        that’s what a bot would say 🧐️

        • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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          That’s the worst thing anyone has ever said about me. I was a little buzzed when I first commented so an upvote wasn’t enough appreciation. Anyway, have a human day!

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            sry i didn’t intend to be mean 😅 have a nice day too!

            • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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              Oh you’re totally fine. I didn’t take it as mean. But your comment made me think about how terrible the internet has become knowing that I have to prove myself a human. Like being myself isn’t human enough. Weird times we are in

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