Comment on Troll physics

tatann@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s messing me up is that I can’t figure out what actually would happen. I know the answer isn’t flight, but I’m not sure what to imagine instead.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It depends, but must of these lifts aren’t rated to lift themselves, so they would groan and make noise, but not go anywhere. 

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  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same thing that would happen if you tried to lift your friend while they tried to lift you.

    Or, to remove the layer of indirection: grab your own feet and lift up. Same thing as that.

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    • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So basically nothing besides some probable self-inflicted mechanical damage?

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      • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If anything happened it would just be mechanical damage, yeah.

        But like the other guy said, I think they would probably just sit there and groan as they tried to compress each other’s frames.

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  • Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The fork of forklift B is under forklift A.
    If forklift A tries to lift formlift B, it cannot, because the fork of forklift B would get lifted up as well, but is stuck underneath forklift A.

    Therefore, you can achieve the precisely same result by removing forklift B from the equation and turning the fork of forklift A around so that it is pointing backwards and underneath forklift A itself. Now, with your own form underneath yourself, lift the fork up.

    It does not matter who the fork stuck underneath you officially belongs to, if what you are trying to do is to lift said fork up.

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