It's our infinity glitch
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Wait'll you hear about levers, wedges, incline planes, and screws!
(Websearch simple machines)
Screws are just wandering inclined planes
Yeah that just sounds like rotation and inclination with extra steps.
I think this is the first time I've seen someone make a contraction out of "till."
I'm partial to simply using "til" myself.
It's funny because I hear "wait'll" often as the predominant colloquialism to express "wait until." Must be a regional dialect thing.
ITT: OP reinvents the wheel.
For my next trick, I shall reinvent fire
Not to be overly pedantic, but fire is naturally occurring. Humans only invented ways of utilizing it.
I love pedantry. Just to kick it up a notch, I'd like to point out that people are a part of the natural world, therefore our technology is a part of nature. For example farms don't seem natural, but I think most people would agree that ants are natural. Some ant colonies engage in farming, and we accept that as a part of nature.
Wheels in the form circular rocks are also naturally occurring. Plenty of human "inventions" are actually just finding useful applications for existing stuff. Like penicillin from mold. And organic iPhones from the Apple tree.
Simplifying what the others said, humans discovered Fire. But they did invent the campfire, the torch, the cooking fire, the pyre, and a bunch of other "fires" (as tools).
So, the "invention of fire" makes sense just fine, I think
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If you are male than you can make some sweet circular motion in the shower as well.
In the shower?
Nah, man. I do that to my wife as a power move when I step out of the shower.
I thought everyone in this community was in the shower 24/7
I think you have it reversed
Loituma is a Finnish quartet whose members combine the Finnish vocal tradition with the sounds of the kantele. Loituma were selected Ensemble of the Year at the 1997 Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. Loituma members compose or arrange the tunes by themselves, often using improvisation. Lyrics come from many sources, two main traditional sources are the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, and the Kanteletar.
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Wait till OP discovers the lever.
He'll lift the world!
Add a cam or rack and pinion and oh baby you got a stew goin.
Spiral power!
Smoke some herb and get ready for this, all motion is curved, there's no such thing as straight motion. The summation of movement can be said to be linear.
I will say conservation of angular momentum really feels like a cheat code sometimes. “This thing can’t be tipped because it’s spinning too fast”
Orbital sanders trip me out every time. I want to lift it off and put it away sideways like any other tool but orbital sander goes "lol dude you can't do that".
An engine lathe is one of the only standalone machine tools that is capable of recreating itself in its entirety.
And not only can it recreate itself, with the correct tooling setup it can recreate itself in a more precise, accurate manner than it itself is built.
Wait how
Not OP, and I'm not sure how the lathe itself does it. But it shouldn't be surprising that it's possible to create more precise tools from less precise tools. Otherwise it would be impossible for us to ever create tools more precise than our own hands and fingers.
Basically, any moving mechanical system has slop/clearance in it. When operating machine tools this is called "backlash", aka how far you have to turn an adjustment handle before it creates a real change in machine position. Any and all moving mechanical systems will have some non-zero amount of slop.
Skilled operators can compensate and "take out" this backlash so that each cut runs perfectly true. Basically as long as you take a "sloppy" machine and always adjust it to run against the very edge of its "sloppiness" zone, you get high precision... I have used lathes at my old college with probably 0.100" or more of backlash and was still able to turn parts that had less than 0.001" of runout.
And obviously once you get to computer controlled machining centers the backlash compensation can be baked into the program to get perfectly true cuts each time.
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If you use Circular Motion with both fists perpendicular to your chest in a vertical orientation, with both fists maintaining a 180° offset from the other’s circle, you can look like an old-timey boxer
It can be vicious tho
OP?
Original Poster?
Old People?
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Physics used Angular momentum!
It's super effective!
This sounds like something a character from Dr. Stone would be amazed about. XD
But yes, I agree.
Theoretically, it's possible to use circular motion to build a train to orbit. Literally, you could have a floating platform suspended above the Earth's surface and a train line running right up to the thing. One could have a stationary ring circling the entire planet that you could ride a train right up to. Hell, with sufficient mastery of circular motion, you could build a structure that allowed you to sail a boat to the Moon.
If you're going to quote orbital mechanics as to why this is impossible, you don't know as much about orbital mechanics as you think you do.
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