#620: Wings explain

Cueball: Titan’s gravity is 14% of Earth’s, and its atmosphere 50% denser.

Cueball: So if you can generate 9% of your body weight in lift, you can fly on Titan.

Cueball: With wings, a stage harness, a cable, and 91% of my weight in bricks, I want to test this.

[There is a heap of materials on the ground. Cueball is holding a stage harness.]

[Large diagram of a bridge, seemingly metal. A rope leads through pulleys tied to the bridge. One end goes to Cueball, one end to a pile of bricks.]

[Cueball is standing with wings attached to his arms.]

[Cueball flaps the wings, and appears to be floating.]

[Cueball glides.]

Cueball: It works!

Megan: Except you have two problems.

Cueball: What?

Megan: You used hot glue on your wing joints and you have friends into Greek mythology.

Cueball: Huh?

[Black Hat is standing on the bridge, with a large lamp labeled “heat lamp” attached to a battery.]

[The wing segments fall off Cueball and he tumbles downward.]