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I Read The Funniest Post In The Politics Section Just Now

It claimed that The War Against Iran Is on the Right Trajectory

I suppose, using that same logic, the Hindenburg and the Titanic were also on the right trajectory.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Hmmm...

What is a "right trajectory"?

The word trajectory comes from the branch of Physics called Theoretical Mechanics - the study of mass, force and motion.

It means the course taken by an object that has been propelled into flight by an initial force, followed without further control, but acted against by external forces.

E.g. a thrown ball, a bullet from a gun, an arrow from a bow, or indeed a ballistic missile (rocket). Their trajectories once released from the operator's aim and the propelling force are set primarily by speed, mass, gravity and air resistance.

In other words,

something or someone "on a trajectory", by definition has no way to control its own destiny.


So is the metaphor appropriate...?
Northwest · M
@ArishMell
So is the metaphor appropriate...?

It is, but the OP, I'm sure had something else in mind, and considered only certain factors and outcomes.

What he did not consider is the forces acting against the object that do not produce a positive outcome, from the OP's perspective.

A trajectory can also get interrupted. Columbus' trajectory had him land in India, but the Americas got in the way.

Lack of knowledge and imagination can do that to a trajectory.

The trajectory guaranteeing another 75 years of US/Western hegemony against Iran seems to certain to fail.
Yeah sure, right trajectory —- until it isn’t.

The question is where this one ends up.
Your guess is as good as mine. 😐
trollslayer · 51-55, M
Took me awhile to realize it was not satire.
Northwest · M
@trollslayer
Took me awhile to realize it was not satire.

Couldn't have been long. I posted this less than 1 minute ago 😂
The right-winged trajectory, perhaps. But like most things classified as conservative, the wrongest
possible side of history. 🥺

 
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