Originally from XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2684/
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
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Is it one plane flying into 5 sky scrappers?
Why are there only 39 hamster balls? Are some people sharing?
One of the lanes is a ball-pool lane.
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
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
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.
This community is awesome.
fun fact: it's illegal to not credit them! see the creative commons license at the bottom.
Just reverse image search. Good god people need their hands held for everything.
(/s BTW)
Are you serious with your caption? The top row is the serious examples, the bottom row is the joke. XKCD is a comic strip that tells jokes occasionally.
They've probably just never seen a tandem 50 in a major city, it sounds made up.
Gotta swing 'er wide left then hard right for a turn on those tight city blocks.
The lower half is obviously nonsense. The future belongs to the 50 people tandem
Humancenticycle
...wonder how fast a 50-seater tandem bicycle could get going, assuming ideal conditions and riders.
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.
At least 12
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Alt text: I wonder how hard it would be to ride an electric scooter in a hamster ball.
I wonder how hard it would be to stop...
Why would I stop?
And how hard it would be once you stopped...
thats only 39 hamster balls, 0/10
Technically he only specified how many people. Some of those hamster balls are multi passenger
Speaking from experience?
It doesn't say there are 50 hamster balls.
In the original there are 50, 16 rows of 3 plus 2 more.
Wait, someone edited this just to remove some hamster balls ? Weird
What were they hiding?
What if these 50 people are clowns and all they have is one Fiat Uno?
So uh, walking, buses, and bikes for the win?
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.
Scientifically speaking yes. Also trains
Train using road space for comparison:
Unironically yes
The hamster balls also win for style points but that's arguably walking with extra steps.
Fewer steps if you get going fast enough and just ride tumbling ass over tea kettle.
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.
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.
so, people walking
Why wouldn't the wolves just eat everything?
You must guard the goats from the wolves, and the cabbages from the goats. You may leave the cabbages with the wolves unattended.
Because they don't like cabbages
“My cabbages!”
- Baahvatar, the Last Goatbender
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