How was flying higher bad for icarus?

[Cloaca Rimjob]

He flied too high and the sun melted the wax in his wings apparently. Wouldn't it be cooler at higher altitudes?

 

[DJ Grelle]

You're applying materialist empiricism to a fable that teaches youths to listen to the warnings of their elders instead of going off on a folly and dying.
I don't know when exactly the wax would melt but clearly, your brain already has.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Icarus must've flown even higher than high in the air?

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Well.... technically no:

https://www.encyclopedia.com/earth-and-environment/atmosphere-and-weather/atmospheric-and-space-sciences-atmosphere/thermosphere

Among the four atmospheric temperature-defined layers, the thermosphere is located highest above Earth's surface, beginning at about 57 mi (90 km) above Earth, and reaching into about 300 mi (500 km) height. The name of this layer, thermosphere, originates from the Greek thermo, meaning heat, because in this layer the temperature increases with altitude reaching temperatures higher than 1830°F (1000°C).

 

[Ultrapenguin]

You're applying materialist empiricism to a fable that teaches youths to listen to the warnings of their elders instead of going off on a folly and dying.
I don't know when exactly the wax would melt but clearly, your brain already has.

#1: Make up a story that proves you don't know what you're talking about

#2: "Now you see here sonny, the point of the story is that I always know what I'm talking about"

 

[DJ Grelle]

#1: Make up a story that proves you don't know what you're talking about

#2: "Now you see here sonny, the point of the story is that I always know what I'm talking about"

Imagine getting filtered because of daddy issues by a more than twenty centuries old story

 

[Wine em Dine em 69 em]

Let’s face it the Greeks were degenerate bloodthirsty retards and we’d be far more advanced by now if they hadn’t tainted our collective consciousness with their nonsense.
Maybe if they weren’t so busy stuffing their faces and oiling each other up they’d have realized that wax is a stupid material to use for flight purposes. Duh.