• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        It’s an impossibly large gearbox. Even smaller ones would take decades of turning the first cog to move the last one.

        • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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          5 hours ago

          Are you saying you move the first one and it takes years before the last one moves? Meanwhile all the ones in between are moving the whole time? That sounds impossible!

          • PDFuego@lemmy.world
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            3 hours ago

            No, you’d turn the first one then the second would only move a fraction of the amount, and the third would only move a fraction of that amount, and so on.