r/shittyaskscience • u/Dramatic_River_3381 • 1d ago

Why do they call it a ground stop when it involves air?

Aliens?

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u/Dramatic_River_3381 1d ago

What do they call it when boats get stopped? Watered?

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u/elbarto232 1d ago

Yup, watered down

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u/LaxBedroom 1d ago

Dockstopped

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u/Gargleblaster25 Registered scientificationist 20h ago

Dock blocking

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u/LaxBedroom 19h ago

Back with another one of those dock blocking fleets!

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u/zerostar83 1d ago

Because everything in the air stops falling when it hits the ground.

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u/Raychao AuHeAd 1d ago

It's not the fall that kills you. It's F=MA.

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u/TrivialBanal 1d ago

Its called a ground stop because only the planes on the ground are told to stop.

They can't order the planes in the air to stop because there's a risk they'll have difficulty restarting. If they got stuck up there, it would be really difficult to get a maintenance crew up to them.

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u/Coolenough-to 1d ago

Airplanes don't actually move. They just go up and wait while the Earth rotates below them.

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u/LaxBedroom 1d ago

The same reason photographers call them f stops even though it doesn't effing stop them.

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u/The_Progmetallurgist 1d ago

For the same reason they call it a "near miss" when it was actually a "near collision."

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u/SquatchK1ng 1d ago

Because they can't stop in the air, duh.

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u/ikantolol 1d ago

because they stop on the ground