Did you know that a blue whales carotid artery is so large that a small child could swim through them, but neither the whale nor the child would enjoy that.
Well, now both seem right. Can we get a physicist consultation? If you pull a rope bridge from both sides, it raises it. But if low enough, that puts you in the water...?
There is a length at which the weight of the rope itself exceeds the force exerted to tighten the rope and not break it. So basically you can have a tight shirter rope, longer saggy rope, or you have 2 ropes.
22 Comments
ZDL@ttrpg.network · 26 pts · 2y
eldain@feddit.nl · 19 pts · 2y
Did you know that if you took every elephant on earth and stacked them up to the moon, they would all pretty much die?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Did you know that a blue whales carotid artery is so large that a small child could swim through them, but neither the whale nor the child would enjoy that.
ZDL@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 2y
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Did you know that if you took a blue whale and laid it lengthwise across a basketball court, the game would be canceled?
suigenerix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Fun fact. If you took every dodgy, corrupt politician and lined them up end-to-end in space... you should probably just leave them there.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 2y
vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
If 8 billion people hold hands and every person would take up 1.3m, the line would go around the equator 250 times. About 6 billion would drown.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Solving climate change.
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Only if all the billionaires and 1% top polluters are the ones who die
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I wish.
vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
True. Still: how much would the sea level rise?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Less than the icecaps melting.
callyral@pawb.social · 2 pts · 2y
No, a line is when there are people waiting in front of you, not when they're beside you holding your hand.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Would they though? Surely the people on land could hold the weight.
Maybe not across the Pacific, Atlantic maybe. Just fashion a human suspension bridge.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Not if the chain were pulled taut enough.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
But if you're a link in a ring chain, isn't pulling just tightening it ?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Well, now both seem right. Can we get a physicist consultation? If you pull a rope bridge from both sides, it raises it. But if low enough, that puts you in the water...?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
There is a length at which the weight of the rope itself exceeds the force exerted to tighten the rope and not break it. So basically you can have a tight shirter rope, longer saggy rope, or you have 2 ropes.
rsuri@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
In that case people would be dismembered, and then drown.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
āIād like to teach the world to swim,
Oh shit, was that a shark?ā
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 5 pts · 2y
The Coke commercial was the first thing that came to mind even after all these years. I never knew as a kid I was watching a mass murder/suicide.
CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
What? Did I miss something?
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Just look at this picture, all the water around the world. It is swimming already, isn't it?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
True, Captain Obvious