valtsv:

valtsv:

i can’t vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. “oh i’d never do that i would have remembered my father’s warning and been fine”. do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn’t want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you’re too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you’d be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.

Icarus had no reason to suspect that flying closer to the sun would harm him. Temperature typically decreases with altitude. if you were close enough to the sun to increase the effect of its heat on you, that would mean you’d already been flying through many miles of the vacuum of space, which probably did more harm to you.

I do not know why the temperature was warmer in the upper atmosphere on that particular day, but it was a rare fluke that Icarus could not possibly have predicted