🚨BREAKING: Kenya has invented the wheel!
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Oh? Did they overturn the laws of physics while I was in the shower? To move Mass A from Point X to Point Y takes energy, period. You can spread it out (like levers or pullies) or do it all at once (lift & carry) but the total energy required is the same. Unless it's downhill all the way? 😊 But it still took energy to get it up the hill, even if that was sunlight & rainfall (for water).
I can put my car in neutral, get behind it and push it down the street. So you should be able to pick it up like superman and carry it right? “Same amount of energy”, so no big deal.
Idiot lmao. It’s 2026 and you still don’t understand the wheel. You’re actually dumber than the kenyan niggers we’re making fun of right now.
All you're doing is spreading the energy used over a (much) longer time. That said, the energy needed to lift & lower it is avoided :/ but that' separate. You still use the same energy to MOVE it. In the case of the Hippo, there's 120 pounds of added weight too.
If you go to extremes of course it seems 'off'. But put a single gallon of water in the Hippo and tell me it's easier to roll 130 pounds than carry 12 pounds (10 + 2 pound container) ok?
Or tell me how the laws of physics changed?
The wheel does take advantage of friction to save energy. In space you need to spend as much energy to slow/stop something as to accelerate it. But friction & stuff does that for you on Earth, so there's savings there. You can use momentum to "roll along" at a savings, but eventually must replace the energy lost to friction to keep rolling.