• Johanno@feddit.org
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    I really don’t get the joke.

    I mean I think I get it, but it isn’t funny.

    The joke is that the physicists cancelled because of the possibility that it crashes?

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          I’m genuinely curious what you thought the joke was when you thought they were all physicists. Also I’d be way more afraid to get on a plane that a bunch of physicists came to a consensus that it was unsafe rather than a bunch of whacky scam artists that thought was unsafe because magic beans or whatever.

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    I’d still go. I’d find it macabre and funny, it wouldn’t make me anxious. Private plane!

    Humans like to believe a lot of stupid stuff without evidence, and feel like it becomes more true the more other people believe in the same stupid stuff.

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    They could not do a prediction before they booked the flight nor when they scheduled the event? So their powers are limited to same-day predictions? Probably low-level NPCs.

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      That’s still pretty good. Waking up and knowing that the day is lost and you may as well go back to sleep would be wonderful.

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      I thought the same thing.

      I was like “there were Ziggy cartoons in 2015?!” But yep, Ziggy is apparently still ongoing.

      The most recent one is also about airplanes. “We’ve upgraded you to early deplaning, here’s your parachute!”

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    This is a psychological evaluation test. Please choose the answer you deem most likely to explain the event.

    Question 1

    A group of people scheduled to go to the same event all decide not to go, why?

    A. The event is cancelled

    B. The group rescheduled

    C. They all, individually, have super powers

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      There might also just be one ot two with that super power among them, but if the rest knows how accurate their power is (or at least believes as much), them sending a message around “I woke up from a vivid dream about being on a crashing plane today, I’m staying tf home” might be enough to make everyone else cancel.

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      D. They all, individually, have superpowers and predicted a disaster would happen. However, their future vision is predicated on the fact that they’ll all be on the plane. Them all choosing not to go will have significantly altered the outcome of a potential future event.

      In short; you’re probably safe.

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        Technically, their inability to predict a crash doesn’t prevent a crash – you might die all the same (it’s particularly grim that, according to the meme, even their supposed clairvoyance wouldn’t prevent a crash because they presumably would just quietly avoid going).

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        Idk probably A.

        If rescheduling, it would have to be extremely last minute if the airline did not have time to rebook seats. That would be disruptive to everyone and basically just means second event at the same cost as the first which sort of unravels the benefit of rescheduling.

        Also. If they are all psychic, why would they book flights then cancel them? 🤔

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    Plot twist the only reason the plane was going to crash was because of all the psychics. It’ll fly perfectly safely with one passenger.

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      Or the catastrophic event was going to occur at the convention so they all decided not to go, end of the day im enjoying that empty plane lol

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      You chang3d the future by acting on it. Fate probably nocks one of them in a road accident or a freek 9/11 2

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      I think true psychism in the universe does not allow for confirmation of what psychics predict. The universe reacts in a way beyond our ken. The plane will land just fine.

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    I’d be off that plane so fast

    Yeah, but then you gotta watch out for all those little Rube Goldberg death traps coming for you for like, forever. Is that really a life worth living?

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    My first cross-country flight/flight of any kind was a red-eye in one of those planes with the middle rows (plus rows left and right). It was so empty that me, my friend, and my dad could all lie down across entire rows. It really did not set realistic expectations for what future air travel would be like. “Damn, it’s fuckin’ NICE back here in coach. Don’t. Mind. If. I. Do.”