One thing I never understood about Back to the Future

[Artois]

If you alter the past, then the future HAS to be different.

You're still thinking 3 dimensionally.

 

[Easy 10]

Next week, NSC will deconstruct the logical implausibilities of Dumbo.

How can an elephant fly? I don't get it. Surely it doesn't make sense?

Just his massive ears. Thats all there is to it (although he quite charmingly holds a little feather in his trunk at one point, as if THAT would make any difference, bless).

 

[Lokki 7]

Ah but Easy, Terminator 3 states very clearly that Judgement Day WILL happen, despite the apparently successful efforts made to avoid it. The eventual outcome will be the same, even if the way in which it is reached is subject to change. This is the beauty of fate and the power of destiny at work for all to see!

 

[Easy 10]

Ah but Easy, Terminator 3 states very clearly that Judgement Day WILL happen, despite the apparently successful efforts made to avoid it. The eventual outcome will be the same, even if the way in which it is reached is subject to change. This is the beauty of fate and the power of destiny at work for all to see!

You're very good at this.

 

[Trufflehound]

Just his massive ears. Thats all there is to it (although he quite charmingly holds a little feather in his trunk at one point, as if THAT would make any difference, bless).

All right, but Mary Poppins didn't have big ears. How did SHE get off the ground then?

 

[Lokki 7]

The truth will always find a way to be told Grasshopper

 

[Seagullible]

All right, but Mary Poppins didn't have big ears. How did SHE get off the ground then?

She had a brolly that caught warm air rising up from the west (I think?)

 

[Easy 10]

There's no real science with Mary Poppins, she's just "magic".

Its also worth remembering that Dumbo was just a cartoon - they could basically draw whatever they wanted. In reality, I think his ears would have had to have been far, far bigger. And he would have needed enormous power in those ears to have been able to flap them hard enough for takeoff.

 

[Seagullible]

There's no real science with Mary Poppins, she's just "magic".

Its also worth remembering that Dumbo was just a cartoon - they could basically draw whatever they wanted. In reality, I think his ears would have to have been far, far bigger. And he would have needed enormous power in those ears to have been able to flap them hard enough for takeoff.

Physically impossible for a bumble bee to fly - surely same can go for Dumbo!

 

[Lokki 7]

Physically impossible for a bumble bee to fly

That's not strictly true is it

 

[Seagullible]

That's not strictly true is it

yes and no. The amount of energy needed to make a bumblebee fly with wings of relative size is disproportionate...or something like that. Never can remember the full story. Basically, we can't recreate the mechanics of it

 

[MattBackHome]

I've just drawn a cartoon picture of me flying. And I don't even have wings! I do have a jetpack though. It's really cool.

 

[Trufflehound]

There's no real science with Mary Poppins, she's just "magic".

Its also worth remembering that Dumbo was just a cartoon - they could basically draw whatever they wanted. In reality, I think his ears would have had to have been far, far bigger. And he would have needed enormous power in those ears to have been able to flap them hard enough for takeoff.

I'll buy Seagullible's "using the umbrella to ride the thermal updraughts" argument. But:

Dumbo was a CARTOON?!? Now I know you're just taking the piss...

 

[Easy 10]

Well, nature has designed bumblebee's for flight, and the fact that in relative terms they are tiny does help with this. Its a matter of body mass v gravity, divided by the square route of energy, or something.

Dumbo is a freak of nature though, but even then, I'm not sure that the Disney artists allowed enough in their equation to enable flight. I think Dumbos ears needed to be bigger - unless we are falling back on "magic" again, but that was never the premise of the story. The crows taught Dumbo how to fly, so we are being told that there was nothing mystical about it.

The story in theory can hold water, but it needed to be drawn better.

 

[MattBackHome]

My jetpack is huge. And really powerful.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I'm glas my thread has provoke such in interesting argument, I have learnt a lot.

 

[Artois]

I'm glas my thread has provoke such in interesting argument, I have learnt a lot.

And I only bounced it because I thought the first post was as funny as f***

 

[Seagull Stew]

Now then, stop this thread RIGHT NOW, it's getting silly!

 

[The Large One]

Dumbo was a baby elephant (a calf), but he was drawn with the proportions of an adult elephant. That's wrong innit? It can only mean one thing; MattBackHome has copied Dumbo's propulsion method - our cute pachyderm must have used a JETPACK.

 

[Marc]

Well, nature has designed bumblebee's for flight,...

not strictly true (so Mother Nature tells me herself).
Originally the BumbleBee was a distant relation of the Beetle but without the wings, it used to climb the Flower Stem to retrieve the pollen from within. Flowers then grew bigger petals thus causing the Bumble problems in getting to the Pollen. So it grew tiny wings for it to hover out and above the petals, to this day they are still in evolution, hence why its all disproportionate (sp?) and all that. In 36,751 years time the wings will be at the correct size and mass to make it fly more accuratley and this enables them to migrate to other warmer lands when flowers die for the winter.