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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 66 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

One of the consequences of getting older is that you forget what its like to simply not know things.

My two year old son is constantly climbing up stuff and tumbling off it without any regard to the possibility that gravity might be holding him back. Every time he lands hard, he looks at me with tears in his eyes, as though the whole world has betrayed him. If you could just fly by not understand gravity, everyone under the age of six would be levitating constantly.

Although, in Andrew's case, it might be less "getting older" and more "getting repeatedly concussed".

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Well, it's not enough to not understand gravity, or Isaac Newton would be the most hated human of all time. You have to fall and miss the ground, for example by being distracted in just the right moment.

[–] Rug_Pisser@piefed.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

And from that point you can just fly all the way to the restaurant at the end of the universe.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

liek if u cry evrytime :'(

[–] IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 14 hours ago

Just wait 'til he turns 3 - that's when they gain the teleportation skill.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I think he was always a dumb son of a bastard