Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video]

Re:Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video] by frabert on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:16AM (#23857188)

On a practical level: no, it's not moving at all since all the movement is being absorbed by the slack between the gears.

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Re:Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video] by StavrosK on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:54AM (#23857646)

There's a video of one of these constructions where the last gear is bolted to a wall or something.

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Re:Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video] by sgerenser on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:51AM (#23858020)

Might be think of “machine with concrete” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg

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Re:Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video] by lumberingjack on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:10AM (#23858157)

I feel like doing the project in Lagos is going to confuse people but when you put the final gear bedded into concrete that sort of gets the point across

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Re:Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video] by StavrosK on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:56AM (#23858053)

Yep, that's exactly it, thanks!

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Re:Making a Googol:1 Reduction with Lego Gears [video] by pwagland on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:18AM (#23859853)

And as per that top voted comment:

The question of whether the last gear will break the concrete is moot. The gears themselves will erode away to nothing before they get a chance to apply much torque to the final gear.

I think that the same argument can be made to this Lego demo as well ;-)

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