• Agent641@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      If you’re on a plane with Trump, Putin, Xi, musk, and 30 other billionaires, and you have a gun with only one bullet, who do you shoot?

      The pilot.

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            11 days ago

            One of the windows would be better. There aren’t a ton of places where a single bullet will take down a plane, if you can get a window you can at least depressurize the cabin and force a really sketchy landing, but guaranteeing the plane crashes when it’s full of people capable of keeping it in the air is no small feat. Maybe if you have access to the maintenance cabins you can pop one of the hydraulic manifold blocks, I’m not sure if the main ones have redundant fail-safes if the whole manifold spontaneously opens a new outlet.

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                  11 days ago

                  lol. i’m mostly thinking those big circular bulges (one with what looks like a nut, one which is empty and shows threading) in the middle are valves or something idk, not in/output ports. pop it on the right side of a valve and all you gotta do is close the valve.

                  this assuming it’s not just one hollow piece covered in nipples or something. i’m not an airplane mechanic.

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                    11 days ago

                    It’s not completely hollow, it has channels between the various holes that open and close selectively. The way hydraulics work requires everything to hold the hydraulic pressure, manifolds are where all of the various pressurized points meet up and get distributed to the various mechanics. If you can break that pressure seal at the manifold you can usually cripple the whole system at once. Most of a plane is run off of hydraulics, especially flight control systems.

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        11 days ago

        I would tell the billionaires if they look outside they’ll see an underage girl, then shoot the plane’s instruments and then help the pilot escape with me with the only two parachutes on board.