What is a Frisbee?

You know what Frisbee is, don't you, or should I say flying saucer?

It was very famous once upon a time, I don't know if the current children play. Today's children like to play computer games with their tablets. We used to play on the streets.

But I met these frisbees quite a while later.

I looked a bit on the internet, and it was named after a patisserie that sells pies. This patisserie was in the state of Connecticut in the USA and the name of the patisserie was Frisbie Patisserie. 

College students who bought pies or cakes in round cardboard boxes from this bakery used to throw the cardboard boxes at each other after eating their pies and play a game called Frisbee, which we call playing cardboard boxes in the air today.

This game was noticed by the American Wham-O toy company in 1959 and the company patented the Frisbee in those years and started mass production in the 1970s.

It is written in the etymological dictionary that Frisbee entered our language for the first time in 2000 with sour dictionary. Look, I could not be sure of this information, as far as I know, Frisbee existed even when I was little, could I be remembering it wrong?

By the way, Schweppes in the USA used to give frisbees as a gift in the 70s on soda caps. Frisbee in English!

Anyway, where did we come from, right?

This company earned a lot of money with a simple plastic toy disc. I don't know if other toy companies pay patent fees to this company for the frisbees produced now, but I can say that they are now available, you can find a frisbee at a very cheap price on the toy shelves of the markets, who knows whose production it is.

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Isn't that interesting? You throw it by rotating it and it flies straight away for a long distance. 

I would write the Bernoulli equations of this flight here and now, but I won't confuse you. Yes, this simple plastic disc flies in the air with that interesting fluid rule of physics.

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All these years I have been thinking, why don't they build flying saucers that can fly on a similar principle? Is it too difficult?

Supposedly aliens always come to the world in flying saucers or come to the world in films, many things that were imagined in films have now been realised and produced.

I wonder why humanity cannot produce flying saucers?

Logically, it should have very low fuel consumption!

The Frisbee flies by spinning, and don't say that a spinning pilot's head also spins. Of course the pilot's quarters won't spin. I think that part will be solved somehow.

In principle, a circular device will be produced and there will be sections on this device that can use the buoyancy of the air by rotating.

I think such a thing is possible! Our technology has advanced so much, I think the time to make flying saucers has come and gone.

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I'm not going to be too long today, I just wanted to share this topic because it stuck in my mind. 

Maybe someone is really working on such a device. They may have even made prototypes. Otherwise, could there be pilots in the United States who seriously say that they have seen a flying saucer?

Or do you think those pilots really saw flying saucers produced by aliens?

It is interesting why it is always Americans who see such things.

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Let me tell you one last thing, it just came to my mind while talking about this subject. 

One day when I was working in Norilsk, I looked out of the window and saw a light shining in the sky. I'm talking about the morning, it was almost light. I was immediately confused, because there were never any aeroplanes flying in the direction I was looking from the only airport in that region. I looked for a while to see if the light I saw could be the rear view of an aeroplane, and then I was sure that it was indeed an aeroplane, but I still wonder where was that aeroplane flying to? Because planes never flew in the direction I was looking at, and since the airport was 50-60 kilometres away, we had never seen a plane flying over the city. 

For those who don't know, this city is in the Arctic Circle, so flights are usually in the direction of Moscow, that is, west, and the direction I was looking at was east, maybe a little north-east.

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Anyway, spring is here, if you are planning to have a picnic or something, if not, you can find frisbees on the toy shelves of a nearby market, it would be fun to play in picnic places. I recommend it.

Or should we say flying saucer?

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow.