With circular motion, you can spin threads, mill grain, move a wheel forward, drill holes, bring water upwards, generate electricity spinning turbines, create gravity, defeat gravity. It’s just too OP

  • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 days ago

    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”

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      22 days ago

      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”.