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Hah that would be incredible. Build something so long that a small child in China steps on it and WHOOSH out goes the ship thousands and thousands of miles awa
by qbasic_forever 6y ago
Hah that would be incredible. Build something so long that a small child in China steps on it and WHOOSH out goes the ship thousands and thousands of miles away! We'll use the peak of Mt. Everest as the fulcrum!
- IgorPartola 6y agoWith levers you trade force for time. How long would a lever like that take to complete its arc?
- engineer_22 6y agoAssume the lever is steel. The speed of sound in steel is approx. 10,000 ft/s. The distance from Suez to Beijing is approx. 25,000,000 feet. The time for a force to be applied in Beijing and a reaction in Suez would be ~2,500 seconds - or 1.7 days.