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xkcd #3269: Airport Meeting

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Although it was a setback for physics, I'm glad the particle naming rights issue led to the cancelation of Pizza Hut's Superconducting Super Collider in the early 90s, so the Double Stuffed Extra Cheese Topping Quark ended up just being named 'top quark.'

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3269/

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[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 46 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The Michelin tyre company made its restaurant guide so that people would drive more and more they could sell more tyres.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And redbull invented the supercar so that people would think it made you go faster so they'd drink more redbull

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And airports invented airplanes so that you would go there to go somewhere

[–] Dpek@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 hours ago

This is propaganda by big airport

Airplanes were invented by harbors because they got annoyed by passanger liners and decided to lite a fire under them to get them inline

Only later would the "flying boats" decide to have a breakup with harbors