Yuh uh, very realistic situations
Yuh uh, very realistic situations
Originally from XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2684/
Could we please include credit for webcomics?
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126OP is big on digital data preservation https://xkcd.com/1683/
41Sorry about that, I found it somewhere else without credit and completely forgot the art style was from XKCD.
I'll add it to the post.
14fun fact: it's illegal to not credit them! see the creative commons license at the bottom.
12This community is awesome.
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Just reverse image search. Good god people need their hands held for everything.
(/s BTW)
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Alt text: I wonder how hard it would be to ride an electric scooter in a hamster ball.
69I wonder how hard it would be to stop...
13Why would I stop?
9And how hard it would be once you stopped...
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Why are there only 39 hamster balls? Are some people sharing?
17One of the lanes is a ball-pool lane.
5Yes, it's the new scheme work put in for reducing hamster ball costs, ballsharing. I mean, most people run in hamster balls with more space than needed, no? Although it would more efficient if there was a bus route to carry all 50 people ngl.
edit 50 not 51
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What if these 50 people are clowns and all they have is one Fiat Uno?
36thats only 39 hamster balls, 0/10
30Technically he only specified how many people. Some of those hamster balls are multi passenger
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50Speaking from experience?
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It doesn't say there are 50 hamster balls.
13In the original there are 50, 16 rows of 3 plus 2 more.
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Are you serious with your caption? The top row is the serious examples, the bottom row is the joke. XKCD is a comic strip that tells jokes occasionally.
18They've probably just never seen a tandem 50 in a major city, it sounds made up.
16Gotta swing 'er wide left then hard right for a turn on those tight city blocks.
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The lower half is obviously nonsense. The future belongs to the 50 people tandem
20Humancenticycle
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...wonder how fast a 50-seater tandem bicycle could get going, assuming ideal conditions and riders.
14At least 12
5How fast can it stop? I wouldn't want to first heading against a crossing or wall with 49 people pushing the pedals behind me.
2Chatgpt says
Professional Cyclists: Elite professional cyclists can produce power outputs of 300 to 400 watts during races, with peak efforts exceeding 1,000 watts for short bursts (like sprinting).
Time Trials and Climbs: During time trials or climbs, trained cyclists can maintain higher power outputs for extended periods, often around 350 to 450 watts for well-trained athletes.
But then it tells me 40km/h assuming 400W which is obviously wrong. I guess you'd have to model that "tandem" in CAD and simulate the airflow to get accurate drag numbers
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So uh, walking, buses, and bikes for the win?
18Scientifically speaking yes. Also trains
8Train using road space for comparison:
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For space efficiency, yes. Bikes are actually better than walking for CO2 output. Your food has a CO2 cost, and bikes are really damn efficient at turning your food calories into forward momentum. Ebikes are even better on a per mile basis, but their higher manufacturing cost mean they never catch up to lifetime CO2 output of a regular bike. Still, whatever gets more people on bikes is a win in my book, ebike or otherwise.
6Unironically yes
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Why wouldn't the wolves just eat everything?
17Because they don't like cabbages
27“My cabbages!”
- Baahvatar, the Last Goatbender
16
You must guard the goats from the wolves, and the cabbages from the goats. You may leave the cabbages with the wolves unattended.
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so, people walking
1Realistically, the 50 people riding a bus scenario will become 50 people riding a bus with rest of the road space occupied by 16-wheelers or other large transportation trucks
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16I don’t get it, are you confused or doubtful?
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