With circular motion, you can spin threads, mill grain, move a wheel forward, drill holes, bring water upwards, generate electricity spinning turbines, create gravity, defeat gravity. It's just too OP

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[–] 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

If you are male than you can make some sweet circular motion in the shower as well.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    In the shower?

    Nah, man. I do that to my wife as a power move when I step out of the shower.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Loituma is a Finnish quartet whose members combine the Finnish vocal tradition with the sounds of the kantele. Loituma were selected Ensemble of the Year at the 1997 Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. Loituma members compose or arrange the tunes by themselves, often using improvisation. Lyrics come from many sources, two main traditional sources are the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, and the Kanteletar.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqthspSKZV8

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago

    Smoke some herb and get ready for this, all motion is curved, there's no such thing as straight motion. The summation of movement can be said to be linear.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 days ago (9 children)

    Also upgrade uranium to weapons grade.

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    [–] 29 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    ITT: OP reinvents the wheel.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    For my next trick, I shall reinvent fire

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Not to be overly pedantic, but fire is naturally occurring. Humans only invented ways of utilizing it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago*

    Simplifying what the others said, humans discovered Fire. But they did invent the campfire, the torch, the cooking fire, the pyre, and a bunch of other "fires" (as tools).

    So, the "invention of fire" makes sense just fine, I think

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Wheels in the form circular rocks are also naturally occurring. Plenty of human "inventions" are actually just finding useful applications for existing stuff. Like penicillin from mold. And organic iPhones from the Apple tree.

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  • I love pedantry. Just to kick it up a notch, I'd like to point out that people are a part of the natural world, therefore our technology is a part of nature. For example farms don't seem natural, but I think most people would agree that ants are natural. Some ant colonies engage in farming, and we accept that as a part of nature.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (5 children)

    Spiral power, you say?

    Edit: it is Junji Ito's Uzumaki.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 days ago* (6 children)

    Wait'll you hear about levers, wedges, incline planes, and screws!

    (Websearch simple machines)

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    [–] 19 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Wait till OP discovers the lever.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    If you use Circular Motion with both fists perpendicular to your chest in a vertical orientation, with both fists maintaining a 180° offset from the other’s circle, you can look like an old-timey boxer

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  • [–] 18 points 2 days ago

    Add a cam or rack and pinion and oh baby you got a stew goin.

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    [–] 11 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I will say conservation of angular momentum really feels like a cheat code sometimes. “This thing can’t be tipped because it’s spinning too fast”

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago* (5 children)

    An engine lathe is one of the only standalone machine tools that is capable of recreating itself in its entirety.

    And not only can it recreate itself, with the correct tooling setup it can recreate itself in a more precise, accurate manner than it itself is built.

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