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[–] 96 points 2 months ago (27 children)

If you count toys then it's definitely wheels. Even if you didn't it's still probably wheels. Chairs, strollers, shopping carts, luggage.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 months ago (16 children)

    Any large multi-room building, like an apartment complex or a hospital or something, would drastically increase the door count. And if we're talking toys, what about toy houses? Do lego doors count?

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  • [–] 69 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Hospital doors have to be out numberer by the stools doctors scoot around on, I think.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Plus hospital beds, medical equipment, supply carts.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    1 office chair has 5 wheels. Almost every home has at least 1 office chair. And if we look at hospitals then it gets even worse because there are a lot of the beds have wheels.

    And then we can go even further. A lot of curtains use rollers which are wheels. So if I just look at my apartment, I probably have 15-20 doors(cabinet doors, etc. but a lot of the normal doors are sliding doors which use wheels) and probably 50-100 wheels. And that is probably undercounting the wheels that are there by a lot.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but does that hold up globally? There are 8 billion people out there, plenty without computers or curtains. My guess is wheels only win cause you can also count defunct wheels on landfill bound chairs and things-- is a door still a door if it's unhinged and scraped?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Cabinets man. Look around in a kitchen or bathroom, every single house in the world has a ton of doors.

    Hotels, they're basically made out of doors (including furniture and appliances). Cruise ships take it to a whole other level.

    Commercial lockers. It's ridiculous how many doors these spaces have.

    Wheels probably wins because of the ridiculous amount of toys, but it's a fight.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    I don't know if this is true, but when I was doing training in the tyre industry, one of the leaders liked to ask, which company, globally, manufactures the most tyres? obvious answers included Michelin and the like. Their answer? Lego. apparently they pump out more rubberized tyres than any other car tyre manufacturer

    again, not sure if actually true, but it makes me think there a lot of wheels out there. however, Lego also makes things with doors...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I wonder what the rubber volume is like in comparison rather than numerical volume.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    The materials are different, but a Lego tire is like 2.5 grams. A car tire is, let's say, 10kg - some are lighter, others heavier.

    Michelin alone produces like 200 million tires a year, Vs Lego's 300 million, so car tires use more materials by several orders of magnitude, it's not even close.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Think about how many wheels and doors you have in your place. Every cabinet and oven has a door. Every building is chock full of doors. I feel like most people only have a few wheels around compared to doors.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Gears. The car's transmission alone has probably 30 meshed together on its own, not to mention gears are in everything. Bearings too. Is a sphere a wheel? Casters, slide rails with wheel runners, washers, and conveyor belts feel like they deserve a spot as they are round locomotive devices.

    Doors also are very rare in nature, but a rock pretty regularly forms the right shape for a wheel.

    I might be missing the forest for something that looks like trees, but it feels like there are overwhelmingly more wheels than doors.

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