Cars blow me away.

"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
10/30/2017 at 15:26 • Filed to: None

Okay, so we’re going to take a piston and pump it up and down. This is going to make air move. Then we’re going to use some tree shaped pieces of metal to make the air move in one direction. These are going to be moved by some turning egg shaped deals with metal parts that slide along their surface. Then we’re going to shoot in a flammable cocktail if chemicals at just the right mixture so when a jolt of electricity jumps a gap it sets a huge fireball off and makes the pistons start pumping themselves. Then we’re going to make them pump hard enough by adjusting how much air and chemicals we give them so we can make power off the moving shaft of the pump. And then flow a bunch of water around just to keep everything from melting. That’s going to lead into a bunch of other pumps and friction surfaces that somehow don’t destroy everything around them, such as the dozens of precision cut gears. This leads to a few rubber balloons that contact a mixture of rock and tar and allow you to move forward at surprisingly fast rates of speed and even grip to the point that if you were standing you’d fall right over guaranteed.

And this works. Millions of times over. By people who give fuck all about upkeep. For years. In harsh as hell environments. And we EXPECT it to!

These things rely on miracles just to make it out of the freaking driveway!

DISCUSSION (17)

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/30/2017 at 15:39

Well that’s why cavemen didn’t have cars

CobraJoe > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/30/2017 at 15:41

Honestly, I kind of think electric cars are anti-climatic. Going from the partially contained explosions powering our current vehicles to a relatively simple motor created by windings of copper.

Electric motors are a magic of their own, but not quite to the same level.

Chariotoflove > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/30/2017 at 15:46

Do your research next time before you spread fake news.

Kinja'd!!!

Chariotoflove > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/30/2017 at 15:48

Physics is amazing. What really boggles my mind though, is how we manage to make learning about it uniformly boring to millions of kids every year.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/30/2017 at 15:48

Amen man!

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > CobraJoe
10/30/2017 at 15:50

Don’t forget about the real power generator. A mixture of metals and acids that make pixies freaking agitated as frig!

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/30/2017 at 15:52

The thing that really blows my mind is that 4 ounces of gasoline is enough to move 2 tons of steel a mile down the road. 4oz is nothing. it’s basically 3 shots of gas.

also prior to blowing my engine at the track, it had performed a minimum of half a billion revolutions. The actual number is probably closer to 600-700 million revolutions, but 500 million is the minimum theoretical number of revolutions.

jimz > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/30/2017 at 15:52

funny what 100+ years of refinement can accomplish, eh?

jimz > CobraJoe
10/30/2017 at 15:53

induction motors are even more magical since there’s no electrical connection between the stator and rotor/armature. so the stator spins the rotor through thin air!

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > jimz
10/30/2017 at 15:56

Take THAT shoe industry!

Kinja'd!!!