• caseyweedermanEnglish
      38•2 months ago

      I FOUND IT

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      Tweet by pj evans:
      Cars have windows and can move. Houses have windows but can’t move. So it’s not the windows that make the car go, it’s something else entirely
      Reply by gelledegg:
      this is what ancient philosophy is like
      Reply by airyairyaucontraire:
      Diogenes driving a mobile home into the symposium to ruin Plato’s day.

      • TurboWafflzEnglish
        6•2 months ago

        I think it’s just because the house windows are usually rectangle windows and rectangle windows can’t roll without like a lumpy road. If you just put the house on a lumpy road I think it would move

        • caseyweedermanEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          Oh shoot you’re right. I’m gonna try that real quick.
          Edit: it didn’t work

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            2•2 months ago

            Thank you for your service to science, but did you get the length of the base to match the rounded length of the bump, because if those two are mismatched, you’re going to get a jamming effect rather than a rolling effect.