• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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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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      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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    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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    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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    The airline would probably cancel the flight if they sold only one seat, so that’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

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      Nah, airlines have their planes in a complex web of routes all dependent on each other, that plane would fly regardless because after it gets (if it got there heh) to the next airport it would also prob have a route from that airport to another

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        Exactly. I was on an empty flight red eye PDX to Boston. Didn’t get cancelled, but what sucked that they didn’t have first class, so I still had to be crammed into those tiny seats. Couldn’t sleep as always.

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      Have been the only one on a flight before. It’s weird when the flight attendants outnumber you.

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      I flew from Oman to Dubai with like 4 people on the flight aside from crew. Stretched out in the centre aisle.

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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.”

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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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    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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    Plot twist: they canceled because of a terrorist who intended to kidnap the plane. And now you’re shocked because there is no use in kidnapping an empty plane. All the planing you invested so far…

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    Hmmm…whole plane to myself… if it’s international I’d say it’s worth the risk