FLYING MACHINE THEORY!

I have come up with a genius idea for a working flying machine that I am amazed has never been thought of before. If a person were to take any chair, and work out until he could lift the combined weight of himself and the chair, thus when he sits down in the chair he could simply lift himself off the ground and fly.

Haha, not quite. The force of someone sitting on a chair would increase it they pull up on it (it would just press harder into them), but there is no total force upward because the act of pulling also pushes down on the chair harder. That is, you're pushing down on the chair with you body and pulling up with your arms so the forces cancel no matter how hard you pull.

Sorry to disappoint you, your idea is not new. And it has never worked. The expression 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' has been around since the 1800's. Today's expression 'boot a computer' means to turn it on and let it start up all the functions to enable it to run.

Fantastic idea ! Oh..., but the person would have to push against something to lift themselves and the chair. You need to invent something that can hover over the ground so that person can push on it.

That's not new -- they've been doing it in cartoons for years.

Sorry, completely unworkable. When you pull up on the chair, you are pulling it against yourself, not against gravity.

Probably the reason it hasn't been done before is it violates the laws of physics.

Something is wrong with the physics here.

Then why bother lifting the chair?

Uh huh, sure.

You're a fan of M.C. Escher, aren't you.

Was that all you got? That's insane.