Then why can you accelerate in a horizontal direction?

a helium balloon would have a negative weight because it is less DENSE than air

what is salvage-able from the theory is survival of the fittest, but only in so much as genes carried to next generation within that species

What about density causes weight?

we have been messing with DOG DNA for quite awhile, we have never created another type of species from it

all DOGS are still dogs, not cats

density is how packed something is

density requires something

I know what density is, but why does that cause weight?

like if you want to float in water

to have weight

you spread out, so your less dense

if you move into a ball, you don't float, you sink

your body weight hasn't changed, just your density

https://youtu.be/BNpmJVa10PU

Your density doesn't change just because you curled up into a ball.

you sink becaues you are more packed together

you are more dense

there is a reason why a brick doesn't fly but a plane does

You sink because you have decreased the amount of surface area for the water to apply a force on.

right ,less dense

Here's what we've got, the RAND corporation, in conjunciton with the SAUCER PEOPLE under the supervision of THE REVERSE VAMPIRES are working together in a fiendish plot to make our parents go to bed early to eliminate the meal of supper. We're through the looking glass here people.

But you're not more packed together, the atoms that make up your body are still just as equally spread out across the volume you take up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8kszaZGLKE

You do actually know what density is right?

It's just mass divided by volume.

do you?

okay

When you scrunch yourself into a ball, neither your mass nor your volume is changing.

and yet you sink

because your density has changed

But how has my density changed if neither my mass nor my volume has changed?

your volume has changed, your distribution of your mass over the water is more distributed when your spread out

when your in a ball its less distrubuted

@noah You can also do it with the other 9 laws of Sheeple's Accelerationism

You can change the density of the medium

you can blow on it, or splash it, applying pressure vectors.

You can add something to the medium to make it more viscious

You can apply control surfaces to the body and change your drag, wave a big bedsheet on a windy day.