Comment on Troll physics

tatann@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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