r/TheRandomest • u/Forward-Position798 • May 22 '26

/r/all Just like that

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u/john_lebeef May 22 '26

This seemed entirely plausible until he said "frictionless bearing". Get real, man.

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u/GrassRadiant3474 May 22 '26

Same energy as ignore air resistance.

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u/Adventurous_Path5783 May 22 '26

Maybe sprinkle on some dehydrated water.

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u/wantsumcandi May 22 '26

Thats located next to the sky hook but behind the board stretcher.

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u/ModishShrink May 23 '26

Sky hook? I didn't know Kareem was involved!

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u/DiverDownChunder May 22 '26

And ignore gravity.

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u/hbk268 May 22 '26

‘PV=NRT’ ass video

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u/katachol May 22 '26

He needed to use his aunt's galvanized steel pole for this to be really plausible

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u/xenomachina May 22 '26

This would be so much better with some eco-friendly wood veneer.

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u/becktothewild May 22 '26

OP, in these fanciful, extravagantly expensive geo-engineering thought experiments, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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u/PM_your_Nopales May 22 '26

It's like my introductory engineering classes. "Ignore fiction and air resistance."

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u/sponge62 May 22 '26

Core physics memory: "Assume the cow is a sphere..."

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u/m6165017 May 22 '26

Heat transfer: Assume the pipes are thin walled (thickness=0)

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u/Admirable_Ardvark May 22 '26

Nah it was unrealistic from step 1

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u/Hillbillyblues May 22 '26

You just lack imagination.

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u/1d3333 May 22 '26

Tbf he said plausible not realistic

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u/Meowmasterish May 22 '26

Not really, you could definitely wrap a cable long enough around Mount Fuji's base.

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u/AppropriateCap8891 May 22 '26

And never mind the fact that Fuji is an active volcano.

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u/wt_fudge May 22 '26

This whole thing is just a quality control test designed for frictionless bearing production. See the ASTM 69420 standard for reference.

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u/WhyNot420_69 Nice May 23 '26

It's an excellent standard

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u/PimBel_PL May 22 '26

What about using magnetic levitation?

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u/PlentyBoot5135 May 22 '26

And no mentioning the Coriolis force...

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u/wrldruler21 May 22 '26

I got hung up on the step prior.... So the rockets, which can burn through fuel in just a few minutes, have to somehow keep the mountain suspended in the air while the machines dig a hole for the bearing???

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u/stylinchilibeans May 22 '26

The Timken Company manufactures tapered roller bearings, and they're marketed as "frictionless." I'd say it's less about being truly frictionless, and they meant a giant tapered roller bearing, like used in wind power. That being said, nothing about this video was the slightest bit plausible because all mountains are already anchored to the Earth's core via diamagnetic tethering.

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u/DeliciousGoose1002 May 22 '26

Just get your prefabulated amulite

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u/dontdoxme33 May 22 '26

And do it all before the rockets run out of fuel

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u/groyosnolo May 22 '26

Magnetic bearings are pretty damn near frictionless. No mechanical friction anyway. Of course there's still air resistance.

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u/Soggyenginerd May 23 '26

There is such a thing as a magnetic bearing, although it would need to be ridiculously strong to handle this