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I feel like you're expecting people to understand how to answer questions in ways that satisfy everyone. Part of learning is learning how to ask follow up questions. "What are the differences between these things?" "what is an order?" "What makes something a marsupial?" "I thought carnivore just meant eats only meat, but you're saying there's something called carnivora, could you expand on that?"
When someone asks how airplanes fly some of them won't be satisfied until bernoulli comes up but others are regretting asking by the time you start explaining how wing geometry creates pressure differentials, when they just needed to know about the four forces of flight and that wing shape creates lift
IMO just explaining the concept of lift is probably good enough for a basic but proper explanation.
An answer in the same style as the one in the comic would be more like "Airplanes fly because they go into the air".