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The plants stay up… The wheel is rusted stuck in this position! It hasn’t been moved in eons!
Otherwise, the system would at least be in an unstable equilibrium position.
maybe not. The let hand pot looks lighter and further off the center of rotation compared to the right hand pot. Given leverage, they might be balanced after all.
(yes. we should totally geek out about physics in a comic. I mean. it’s more realistic than the marvel movies.)
That still fits the definition of “unstable equilibrium”.
“Unstable” means that a slight perturbation can disrupt the system… Basically, if something is moved a little, it’ll keep moving. Suppose it’s held in balance by the repartition of weights. Rotate it by just a few degrees, and suddenly the center of gravity has moved away from the plan containing the axis of the wheel, meaning it now has a momentum and will keep turning, and the pots will likely be smashed.
The wheel can stay still an unlimited amount of time as long as nothing moves it… But anything could give the starting push.
The slugs got lost
Definitely stoned.
Those plants are innocent and should never have been hanged! #JusticeForPlants
Nah man they’re clearly well hung
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Fun fact: scientists wanted to study why animals like mice would run on a wheel, initially thinking it was to exercise or because of being confined and needing to run. They put wheels in the wild and recorded the distance traveled on the wheels and found that a lot of mice or other small animals would run on the wheel even when they had plenty of room to run, meaning they were doing it out of enjoyment.
