Why do people still believe in flying carpets?

[kentauros]

I mean, come'on! The Djinn left this world thousands of years ago.


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:P

[rcrush]

1. they are fuel efficient duh.

[kentauros]

8. Yeah, since, unless you're Larry Niven, magic doesn't run out.

[scheming daemons]

2. That third picture makes a believer out of me...

[kentauros]

3. I should hope so!

I wonder if she's the kind that gives a limited number of wishes or is devoted to you for life...?

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. That third picture lets me know that female Djinni use their magic

to keep aloft an overloaded flying carpet as well as keeping their waist from snapping like a twig.

[kentauros]

4. The reality of flying carpets through physics

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/flying-carpet

http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/03/the-physics-of-the-f...


:D

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Yes Virdjinnia, there is a Santa Claus.

Speaking of inexplicable flying contraptions.

[kentauros]

6. Although in the inexplicable Narnian Wardrobe

"Father Christmas" had a sleigh that stayed put on the snow ;)

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Gotta be careful to whom you give superpowers.

They might use them for evil.

[kentauros]

9. Like David Warner?

:P

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Exactly. Give the superpowers to concentrated evil

but not to someone with an agenda like Father Christmas. Must be poetic license or something!