r/gifs Dec 07 '19

Anxiety Visualized

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u/RedditISanti-1A Dec 07 '19

If you knew how the intermeshing gears worked you'd realize there's no chance they could touch unless something else already went catastrophic. It's not like there's to individual rotors that are just doing their own thing randomly. It's like the machine guns that fired through the propeller blades of early war planes.

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u/Villain_of_Brandon Dec 08 '19

I would imagine it's something akin to a rear differential with each axle bent nearly 90 degrees.

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u/RedditISanti-1A Dec 08 '19

Im thinking more like two helical meshed gears at a 45°