Author Topic: Are there more wheels or doors in the world? (Read 2622 times)

MechAg94 · « **Reply #25 on:** March 18, 2022, 03:03:20 PM »

Quote from: K Frame on March 17, 2022, 06:58:01 PM

"And if you call it in, then the person on the radio goes "have you tried turning the bus off and turning it back on again"? (The ratio of truth to exaggeration is actually quite high here.)"

Let me tell you a little story about that...

Few years ago I was working in DC and was taking a series of buses, including a local commuter bus.

One day commuter bus starts having issues, can't remember what it was, it might have been something with the fare collection system.

Driver pull over to a stop, asks us all to get out, says he needs to "reset the bus."

We get out, he walks back to a panel that he open and pulls what looks like a HUGE circuit breaker. Bus goes completely quiet. He waits a minute, then flips this breaker again, get on, spends a minute or three running some diagnostics (I guess?) and then tells everyone to get back on the bus, and off we go.

He literally turned the bus off and back on again.

So why did everyone have to get out?

Nick1911 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 18, 2022, 03:18:17 PM »

Quote from: MechAg94 on March 18, 2022, 03:03:20 PM

So why did everyone have to get out?

Happened to me once on a jet too. The passengers boarded, and there was an issue that required shutting everything down. The passengers were taken off the plane for that. We were allowed back on once the procedure was complete. DOT/FAA thing?

Fly320s · « **Reply #27 on:** March 18, 2022, 06:56:11 PM »

Quote from: Nick1911 on March 18, 2022, 03:18:17 PM

Happened to me once on a jet too. The passengers boarded, and there was an issue that required shutting everything down. The passengers were taken off the plane for that. We were allowed back on once the procedure was complete. DOT/FAA thing?

Maybe DOT tarmac limit, but not an FAA reg. I've rebooted the plane many times.with passengers onboard.

Ths Embraer 190 family is notorious for needing reboots.

I've also experienced reboots on a coach-class bus.

HeroHog · « **Reply #28 on:** March 18, 2022, 07:45:36 PM »

Do rollers count as wheels? What about bearings?

WLJ · « **Reply #29 on:** March 18, 2022, 07:51:08 PM »

Do we count every one named Wheeler?

230RN · « **Reply #30 on:** March 19, 2022, 07:54:12 AM »

Are there more wheels or doors in the world?
1. Wheels.
2. Doors.
3. I'm wrong.
4. You're wrong.

Ambivalence A:
If I select 3., does that mean I think I myself am wrong, or that I'm agreeing that you yourself are wrong?

Ambivalence B:
If I select 4., does that mean I'm agreeing that you yourself are wrong, or that I myself am wrong?

'Tis a puzzlement.

Terry

Bogie · « **Reply #31 on:** March 19, 2022, 08:02:10 AM »

There are quite a few people who consider themselves to be big wheels.

Quite a few actually need training wheels.

K Frame · « **Reply #32 on:** March 19, 2022, 08:15:08 AM »

Well, my gun safe only has one door, but the revolvers in the safe equal a LOT more wheels...

230RN · « **Reply #33 on:** March 19, 2022, 08:28:29 AM »

Wheelguns don't have wheels. They don't go anywhere.

Are we counting verbs, as in "He wanted to wheel around to face her?"

Ben · « **Reply #34 on:** March 19, 2022, 08:36:21 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on March 19, 2022, 08:28:29 AM

Wheelguns don't have wheels. They don't go anywhere.

Are we counting verbs, as in "He wanted to wheel around to face her?"

A wheel doesn't have to go anywhere to be a wheel.

HeroHog · « **Reply #35 on:** March 19, 2022, 09:08:45 AM »

Some doors have wheels! (rollers)

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #36 on:** March 19, 2022, 09:57:06 AM »

Some wheels have doors.

WLJ · « **Reply #37 on:** March 19, 2022, 10:08:07 AM »

K Frame · « **Reply #38 on:** March 19, 2022, 10:25:42 AM »

Quote from: Ben on March 19, 2022, 08:36:21 AM

A wheel doesn't have to go anywhere to be a wheel.

Winner winner chicken dinner...

K Frame · « **Reply #39 on:** March 19, 2022, 10:27:00 AM »

Quote from: HeroHog on March 19, 2022, 09:08:45 AM

Some doors have wheels! (rollers)

My Mom's house had 4 huge sliding doors that used mechanisms similar to that.

HeroHog · « **Reply #40 on:** March 19, 2022, 11:13:13 AM »

Barn type doors, for a larger scale.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #41 on:** March 19, 2022, 03:35:41 PM »

WLJ · « **Reply #42 on:** March 19, 2022, 03:58:08 PM »

WLJ · « **Reply #43 on:** March 19, 2022, 03:58:55 PM »

WLJ · « **Reply #44 on:** March 19, 2022, 04:00:17 PM »

HeroHog · « **Reply #45 on:** March 19, 2022, 04:34:40 PM »

Quote from: MechAg94 on March 19, 2022, 03:35:41 PM

But, is a tire a wheel? A wheel is definitely not a tire...

JN01 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 19, 2022, 05:50:40 PM »

We'll beat this one to death.

HeroHog · « **Reply #47 on:** March 19, 2022, 05:58:48 PM »

Quote from: JN01 on March 19, 2022, 05:50:40 PM

We'll beat this one to death.

It'll roll on forever, I guess.

230RN · « **Reply #48 on:** March 19, 2022, 06:27:37 PM »

Quote from: Ben on March 19, 2022, 08:36:21 AM

A wheel doesn't have to go anywhere to be a wheel.

A misnomer. That's not a wheel, that's a water turbine.

That's not a wheel, either. That's a water turbine as well, 'cept moderner. And torquier.

Many "gas wheels?" No, multiple gas turbines.

Wind wheels?

You be the judge, you do the counting.

Now, for "doors...."

Terry, 230RN

Ben · « **Reply #49 on:** March 19, 2022, 07:04:31 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on March 19, 2022, 06:27:37 PM

A misnomer. That's not a wheel, that's a water turbine.

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The main difference between a water turbine and water wheel is a swirl component of the water which passes energy to a spinning rotor. This additional component of motion allows the turbine to be smaller than a water wheel of the same power.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/22/1/012020/pdf#:~:text=The%20main%20difference%20between%20a,wheel%20of%20the%20same%20power.

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