Or you both can consider stepping down from your high horses. It is a fun tongue-in-cheek idea, and the author explicitly mentioned the need for a gearbox. I am

Or you both can consider stepping down from your high horses. It is a fun tongue-in-cheek idea, and the author explicitly mentioned the need for a gearbox. I am teaching physics and I will probably use this example in a lesson soon, because it is actually interesting to discuss why this idea would not work in practice (in principle all you need is indeed just a perfect gearbox).