I fucking love wheels vs doors. My entire workplace is about to start throwing chairs. Thank you OP.
wheel's by several orders of magnitude
If ball bearings, needle bearings, roller bearings .etc count as wheels it's possibly many, many orders of magnitude more
Thanks. We've only been at it for 20 minutes and this is ending friendships in my group chat.
Every time I've seen this come up, it turns into a kind of coastline problem. The closer you look at everything we've built you just start finding more and more doors and just as you think it must be the winner you start seeing all the wheels that go along with them (or vice versa).
It's impossible to know which one wins without very clear (and limiting) definitions of "door" and "wheel". Those definitions would have to be equally restrictive to both "doors" and "wheels" or else the limitations decide, not the world we've built around us. I posit that anyone claiming to have an answer have made up their own limits of what "counts" and those limitations are likely not equally balanced.
If ball, needle, roller bearings count as wheels doors lose by a loooooot
What about ball-peen hammers?
What about Deez nutz
Dem bitches warny
Are gates doors? Therefore are logic gates doors?
Oh man, what about electrical switches?
Im going to chime in here and say we expand the definition of wheels to include doors and the definition of doors to include wheels.
Problem solved.
People are getting way to technical about it
Human made doors vs human made wheels
Balls don't count as wheels
I would say you need an actual door so the doorway between your living room and hallway doesn't count. That's a doorway, not a door
The issue is, what counts as a wheel?
My car engine has some round shit that spins for belts on it, are those wheels? I would say, for fun, no. It has to be a wheel... used for moving the object around, gears and shit don't count
I still think wheels win because there are lots of toy cars in the world
Relatedly, I heard somewhere (probably on No Such Thing As A Fish? but maybe also on Lateral) that the manufacturer that produces more tires than any other is Lego.
A gear is called a tandwiel in dutch. Which translates to teeth wheel.
So those are wheels and they are everywhere.
It's called a cogwheel in English
Look, I'm not about to let Dutch tell me what's a wheel and what isn't. 😉
Would a car trunk lid count as a door? My guess would be no. Same with the hood.
What about on a van? My kids get in and out of the back door of our van, but when all the seats are up it's essentially just a big trunk lid.
Then consider kitchen cabinets. There's no other word for cabinet doors - they are necessarily doors. Is a trunk lid different from a car door in any ways that a cabinet isn't different from a house's front door?
Toy cars, scooters, bicycles, motorcycles 2:0 real cars are probably a little over 1:1
I think you nailed it
A better debate would be wheels vs hinges.
Because I wouldn't call a window a small door for example.
What about a garage door? Or a sliding glass door? Neither have hinges
What kind of garage door do you have? I think mine has like 20 hinges.
Not the guy your responding to, but there are tilt panel doors that are literally a big flat plate that gets pulled up along a rail with no hinge, and roller doors which are essentially corrugated sheet metal which just flexes into a roll, then back out again.
Sectional garage doors are the most common garage door where i live and i assume this is the type you have in mind.
I think SciShow did a thing like this for Eyes vs Legs.
It comes down to definition, but if one, but not the other, definition include biological parts then that one wins.
If no biological being has "wheels" but say, a valve, is considered a "door," then doors will always win.
But again, it comes down to definition.
Define both. Does a doorway with no door but instead beads or a curtain count? Is a tiny door a door? A cosmetic one? Are spinning and potter's wheels wheels? Casters on furniture?
I think each string of beads counts as its own door. Hear me out. If you had a double door, you'd count it as two doors, right?
If you were living in a cave and you used an object to block the entrance, that'd be a door, right?
Ergo many objects that together serve as a door just by being in the way each count as separate doors.
But if you had an accordion door you'd only count that as one, so that's why it's each string of beads and not each bead.
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