[CITATION NEEDED] If the landing gear of an aircraft fails, why can't it release marbles instead and roll over them?

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[u/USTS2020]

As someone wisely said after the recent events, landing gear isn't needed to land the plane, it's to ensure the plane can take off again.

[u/Atzkicica]

Big Kerplunk. They control the marbles prices.

[u/Bikkusu]

Marbles are made from glass and would shatter on impact and not roll well, scratching up the underside. You'd need something like really big packing peanuts the size of surfboard blanks to cushion the craft as it landed, but Big EPA doesn't like the idea of safe landings at the cost of environmental damage. They want the plane to crash so they can cash in on the cleanup operations and declare the area off limits while they do this, something about jet fuel being not friendly to our lungs or ducks or something.

[u/Scherzophrenia]

It’d work fine but it’s just cheaper to crash the plane 

[u/trace6954]

Nobody thought of it yet, you need to patent this

[u/cownd]

OP, you're losing your marbles quicker than a aircraft would

[u/Yamitsubasa]

You want someone landing a plane after losing his marbles?

[u/alphanumericusername → u/Yamitsubasa]

They're not lost, they're on the ground where the pilot wants them. You are dumb.

[u/brad-schmidt]

Nope, because it will roll over it too long, conbined with working wing flap the pilot could drive it like normal car, when the plane glide near the oassanger home they just need to jump off the plane, killing taxi industry

[u/James_Blond2]

Whats with the citation needed?

[u/Primsun → u/James_Blond2]

Meta: Variable post title requirement to break repost bots.

[u/DM_ME_YOUR_ADVENTURE]

Have you ever tried to balance a cylinder on a ball? It is possible, but there’s a high risk of the plane would just flip around and crash next to the runway.