# When would you have learned you could fly?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 16, 2023, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-you-have-learned-you-could-fly/994718 "2023-12-16T23:28:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-you-have-learned-you-could-fly/994718/21 "2023-12-18T10:15:45Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> and agents from the nefarious lab referred to only as The Lab

So they’re evil, but not great at marketing? On the whole, it sounds exciting.

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-you-have-learned-you-could-fly/994718/22 "2023-12-18T12:51:23Z")

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> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> Hasn’t everybody at the age of 5 or so, put on a makeshift cape and run as fast as they can to try to achieve flight?

Haven’t most folks thought, _hey, I wonder if I could jump up there to reach that,_ before giving it a try and (a) sometimes learning, _yup, it turns out that I can,_ but (b) sometimes learning, _well, I thought I could, but I fell short by — what, two or three inches? That’s surprising. Okay, let me back up some more steps, get a good running start this time, push off just so, and I’ll bet I’ll be able to — wow, I was still like an inch shy of touching it?_

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**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-you-have-learned-you-could-fly/994718/23 "2023-12-18T13:18:01Z")

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From the earliest memories I have, no one was ever flying around, so I think it was simply an inherent knowledge that people simply cannot fly as opposed to an epiphany.

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-you-have-learned-you-could-fly/994718/24 "2023-12-18T14:33:25Z")

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I probably would have discovered it that time I was knocked off the roof of an asylum.

(Okay, technically, it was a hospital wing housing a secure psychiatric ward, but “asylum” fits the thread better.)

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**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-you-have-learned-you-could-fly/994718/25 "2023-12-18T22:25:11Z")

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I did learn early on … but I must admit I had mostly micro-successes

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