One of the most controversial and inexplicable topics of modern conspiracy theories is the topic of atomic energy - an area extremely closed to all outsiders, for whom any opportunity to test in practice everything that is written about nuclear reactors in Wikipedia is excluded.
On this basis, many people express a rather wild, at first glance, but not unfounded idea that there are no nuclear power plants in nature. In fact, there is just a certain building, which is called a nuclear power plant, where in a small extension, electricity is generated by a certain device put there by the “Martians”. And everything else that is there besides the secret extension is just a props for the general public.
So far, no one has succeeded in either convincingly refuting or confirming this theory, however, in the meantime, in the minds of conspiracy theorists, another, no less wild and radical theory has appeared that not only nuclear reactors, but jet engines in fact also do not exist. … And to prove this theory, people propose to turn to facts known to everyone, but for some reason unnoticed by anyone.
The photo above shows an Airbus A380, on the wings of which double-decker buses are photographed, which give a total weight of about 300 tons. This is exactly how much, that is, 320 3525 liters of jet fuel, is poured into the Airbus A380 before departure. As you can see from the analogy, 300 tons is quite a lot. This is a whole herd of large elephants.
According to the theory of resistance of materials, the wings should somehow react to such a load and, at least slightly, bend. But nothing happens to the wings and when the fuel is fully loaded, they do not strike the concrete.
A second interesting question is the rate at which fuel is supplied to the tanks, to illustrate which the authors of the theory suggest looking at a super-hose filling an Olympic pool with a capacity of 2,500,000 liters:
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As you can see, the hose to the pool is pulled up quite healthy, and the pool is filled for 4 days.
The capacity of the Airbus A380 tanks leaves 8% of the volume of the Olympic pool, therefore, using such a pump, the aircraft should refuel for about 7-8 hours. However, in fact, the Airbus A380 takes 45 minutes to refuel, during which a whole marching column of tankers is pumped into it through a pair of hoses:
Agree, the fuel hose is not USB 4, and the Airbus A380 is not an advanced external hard drive, the kerosene feed rate has limitations. It cannot be fed under incredible pressure, since the tank will simply burst, as well as the kerosene itself does not know what will happen. How does this happen?
Not knowing how to answer these questions, the conspiracy theorists assume that something is unclean with jet engines and, most likely, they do not work on the principles that are written about in "Wikipedia". It is possible that a certain “made on Mars” device is integrated into the jet engine, which turns the turbine, for which very little kerosene is required: it is used either only for spinning up the turbine, or for the usual props.
It is possible, of course, that the guys go overboard with their theory, nevertheless, it is difficult to disagree with the given facts and we do not know how to explain them. In addition, on our own behalf, we want to draw the attention of readers to the strange progress in the development of jet engines over a couple of decades.
At the dawn of the jet era, a fighter without outboard fuel tanks flew for only a few tens of minutes. So, the MiG-21, that is, the plane of the THIRD generation, could stay in the air for no more than 45 minutes. At the same time, the F-35, the FIFTH generation aircraft, is in the air twice as long. At the same time, it also takes off vertically, although at the time of the MiG-21, even the radar was removed from vertical take-off fighters to facilitate the design and the ship's radar directed the missile to the target. And on this basis, many aerodrome technicians have long been tormented by the question: where does such an awesome progress in efficiency come from?
Mercedes (of the same mass) how much gasoline ate per 100 kilometers during the time of Stirlitz - and continues to eat so much after almost 100 years, the developers of piston engines somehow fabulously did not advance in economy. And in jet aviation it is just an inhuman technological breakthrough. So we consider it quite appropriate to ask: is this technological breakthrough really not entirely human? Maybe some units of jet technology are delivered in sealed boxes to factories by some “Martians”?