The inner diameter is less than the outer diameter which makes for a small overdrive gearing ratio, translating to fewer steps even under normal operation.
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.
Yes, 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.
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
Realistically, 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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LostAndSmelly@lemmy.world · 128 pts · 1y
Could we please include credit for webcomics?
XKCD makes linking with attribution super easy: Permanent link to this comic: https://xkcd.com/2684/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/road_space_comparison.png
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 43 pts · 1y
OP is big on digital data preservation https://xkcd.com/1683/
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y
Sorry 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.
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
fun fact: it's illegal to not credit them! see the creative commons license at the bottom.
LostAndSmelly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
This community is awesome.
Halosheep@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Just reverse image search. Good god people need their hands held for everything.
(/s BTW)
teft@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 1y
Alt text: I wonder how hard it would be to ride an electric scooter in a hamster ball.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
I wonder how hard it would be to stop...
activ8r@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
Why would I stop?
Klear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
And how hard it would be once you stopped...
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 49 pts · 1y
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Is it one plane flying into 5 sky scrappers?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
How do you scrap the sky?
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc · 5 pts · 1y
With a scrapper
n3cr0@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y
What if these 50 people are clowns and all they have is one Fiat Uno?
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 1y
thats only 39 hamster balls, 0/10
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 1y
Technically he only specified how many people. Some of those hamster balls are multi passenger
MeatPilot@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 1y
kamen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Speaking from experience?
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y
It doesn't say there are 50 hamster balls.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
In the original there are 50, 16 rows of 3 plus 2 more.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
Wait, someone edited this just to remove some hamster balls ? Weird
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
What were they hiding?
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 1y
The lower half is obviously nonsense. The future belongs to the 50 people tandem
phorq@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Humancenticycle
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 1y
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y
They've probably just never seen a tandem 50 in a major city, it sounds made up.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Gotta swing 'er wide left then hard right for a turn on those tight city blocks.
Gigasser@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
So uh, walking, buses, and bikes for the win?
Fermion@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 1y
The hamster balls also win for style points but that's arguably walking with extra steps.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Fewer steps if you get going fast enough and just ride tumbling ass over tea kettle.
Fermion@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 1y
The inner diameter is less than the outer diameter which makes for a small overdrive gearing ratio, translating to fewer steps even under normal operation.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
That sounds way less fun. You go ahead and calculate how many fewer steps like a nerd and I'll tumble around in one like a cool person.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y
Scientifically speaking yes. Also trains
Klear@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Train using road space for comparison:
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
Unironically yes
frezik@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1y
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.
Kalkaline@leminal.space · 17 pts · 1y
Why wouldn't the wolves just eat everything?
LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz · 27 pts · 1y
Because they don't like cabbages
xkbx@startrek.website · 16 pts · 1y
“My cabbages!”
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
You must guard the goats from the wolves, and the cabbages from the goats. You may leave the cabbages with the wolves unattended.
Skates@feddit.nl · 17 pts · 1y
Why are there only 39 hamster balls? Are some people sharing?
dch82@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
Yes, 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
oo1@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 1y
One of the lanes is a ball-pool lane.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
At least 12
bstix@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 1y
How fast can it stop? I wouldn't want to first heading against a crossing or wall with 49 people pushing the pedals behind me.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · -21 pts · 1y
Chatgpt says
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
ddplf@szmer.info · 17 pts · 1y
If I wanted to ask ChatGPT, I would ask ChatGPT myself. You're useless.
Aedis@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 1y
Could've done without the insult.
affiliate@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
so, people walking
nifty@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 1y
Realistically, 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
friendlymessage@feddit.org · 16 pts · 1y
nifty@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
I don’t get it, are you confused or doubtful?