Flying Buildings

Jets shouldn’t be in the air.  I mean, it’s crazy.  Do you know just how huge these things are?  There’s no way they should be able to get off the ground.

 

I do know some of the physics behind it, lift and drag and thrust and all.  That makes sense.  But even knowing the fundamentals does little to subdue my amazement seeing the results of applying these physics to a large hunk of metal.  Aerodynamics works on a paper airplane quite well.  Heck, it works great on a little foam airplane too!  Jets are just too big.

 

What if large buildings could fly?

 

I would be flabbergasted to see this, and only partly because I don’t know of any physical law that could induce levitation and subsequent forward movement of a building.

 

That doesn’t mean this mystery law is non-existent… it could be hiding somewhere around our universe, waiting to be discovered like many of the other physical laws were at one time.

 

A little magnet can levitate and move, and there are other things which can seem to “float” on air and not utilize aerodynamics.  So like I can accept the flying paper airplane I can accept this.  But also like the paper airplane, we can scale up the little floating magnet so it could help a large building in its attempts to levitate or even fly.  But imagine no magnet, no aerodynamics.  Just a building quietly (ominously) floating, moving, flying.  Wow.