Why sports-cars fly over hills (was How conveyor-belts actually work) Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Why sports-cars fly over hills (was How conveyor-belts actually work)
# 12885 byvictors@... on April 26, 2013, 12:07 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
It might also be suggested that one attempt to keep ones speeding exotic sports cars off of ones conveyor belts.
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Subject: [spacesettlers] Why sports-cars fly over hills (was Re: How conveyor-belts actually work)
--- In spacesettlers, "hitssquad" wrote:
> What keeps the package in contact with the box or belt
> during a vertical-grade reduction (a common problem for
> exotic sports-cars travelling at high speeds on public
> highways)?
The people who design the system are aware of this and so the belts don't yank the boxes downward so fast that stuff comes out.
I mean, that's how I'd do it.