Am forklift driver. Can confirm this is how you reach the top shelves.
Troll physics
Submitted 1 month ago by QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz to memes@sopuli.xyz
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abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
How do you actually grab something off the shelves, if both lifts are keeping the other up?
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re supposed to put a third forklift (using a fourth forklift) on top of the first two
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That a professional secret!
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’m up here on a scissor lift. I get real high and my shit is janky and steers like a whale. Actually we’ll all get out manoeuvred when the whales come, but I’ll be up there, clinging to a mast. Well, anti-gravity forklifts might pose some threat to one clinging to an anomalous ship mast in a warehouse BUT! I have your clipboards!
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Health and safety rules be damned
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I jelly bro?
tatann@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not ashamed to admit I thought about it and even thought it would work, as a kid
I even dreamt about it (I was obsessed with flying)
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 month 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.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 month 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.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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.
Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub 5 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.
rbos@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
That’s pretty much how a Klang drive works in Space Engineers.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 month ago
Also prop jumping in Source games like Portal
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What year is it
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
A good year. Well, better than 2026.
oplkill@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Year of meme reset
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
This is why they require certification
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
This works in some physics engines. Might be a game guide.
rbos@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Space Engineers, for one. Janky-ass physics engine.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, more like elevator.
Oh! Unless, they’re using the wheels to move back and forth and steer? That would make sense.
mech@feddit.org 1 month ago
Wow, a powered machine consuming energy can achieve flight?
This changes everything!HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
you don’t get it
Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub 5 weeks ago
He might have been…
…trolling.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Battle bots predecessor
gray@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Ancient memes are so charming
QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
There is some innocence and optimism regarding the Internet.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
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Klear@quokk.au 1 month ago
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tempest@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
That meme is a quarter century old (older if you count it’s actual source instead of the video that made it popular)
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
Aybabtu