I fucking love wheels vs doors. My entire workplace is about to start throwing chairs. Thank you OP.
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wheel's by several orders of magnitude
If ball bearings, needle bearings, roller bearings .etc count as wheels it's possibly many, many orders of magnitude more
Thanks. We've only been at it for 20 minutes and this is ending friendships in my group chat.
Im going to chime in here and say we expand the definition of wheels to include doors and the definition of doors to include wheels.
Problem solved.
In the future, all doors are wheels.
Every time I've seen this come up, it turns into a kind of coastline problem. The closer you look at everything we've built you just start finding more and more doors and just as you think it must be the winner you start seeing all the wheels that go along with them (or vice versa).
It's impossible to know which one wins without very clear (and limiting) definitions of "door" and "wheel". Those definitions would have to be equally restrictive to both "doors" and "wheels" or else the limitations decide, not the world we've built around us. I posit that anyone claiming to have an answer have made up their own limits of what "counts" and those limitations are likely not equally balanced.
If ball, needle, roller bearings count as wheels doors lose by a loooooot
What about ball-peen hammers?
Are gates doors? Therefore are logic gates doors?
Oh man, what about electrical switches?
Every door that is opened by a hinge had AT LEAST one wheel associated with it 🤷
Wheels win 😈
I don't think that is accurate, the majority of door hinges I am aware of have what I would call an axle, but no wheel.
There are definitely some doors on wheels though, plus everything with wheels has at least 2 so I think wheels win
I feel like most things with doors have more than one door too, but I guess that depends how granular you get... For example, my kitchen has like 30 doors. But like, that one singular cabinet only has one door...
There are doors and hatches that have no hinges. They lift out.
People are getting way to technical about it
Human made doors vs human made wheels
Balls don't count as wheels
I would say you need an actual door so the doorway between your living room and hallway doesn't count. That's a doorway, not a door
The issue is, what counts as a wheel?
My car engine has some round shit that spins for belts on it, are those wheels? I would say, for fun, no. It has to be a wheel... used for moving the object around, gears and shit don't count
I still think wheels win because there are lots of toy cars in the world
Relatedly, I heard somewhere (probably on No Such Thing As A Fish? but maybe also on Lateral) that the manufacturer that produces more tires than any other is Lego.
A gear is called a tandwiel in dutch. Which translates to teeth wheel.
So those are wheels and they are everywhere.
Look, I'm not about to let Dutch tell me what's a wheel and what isn't. 😉
Would a car trunk lid count as a door? My guess would be no. Same with the hood.
What about on a van? My kids get in and out of the back door of our van, but when all the seats are up it's essentially just a big trunk lid.
Then consider kitchen cabinets. There's no other word for cabinet doors - they are necessarily doors. Is a trunk lid different from a car door in any ways that a cabinet isn't different from a house's front door?
Toy cars, scooters, bicycles, motorcycles 2:0 real cars are probably a little over 1:1
I think you nailed it
I dunno, I think a lot of those "round shit that spins" are defined as wheels. A pully consists of a wheel and something stretched over it and pulled. A gear is literally a "toothed wheel". I could see an argument that a typical ball bearing consists of 2 wheels, an inner and outer.
Still though. Doors are everywhere. Cabinets, ovens, microwaves, fridges/freezers, washers and dryers, closets, etc. The trunk and hood of a car, the glove box, center console, the little storage compartments tucked away all over modern SUVs, hell there's a door hiding the mirror on my driver's and passenger's sun shade in my car.
I think I could literally have this conversation back and forth all day. lol
A better debate would be wheels vs hinges.
Because I wouldn't call a window a small door for example.
What about a garage door? Or a sliding glass door? Neither have hinges
I think SciShow did a thing like this for Eyes vs Legs.
It comes down to definition, but if one, but not the other, definition include biological parts then that one wins.
If no biological being has "wheels" but say, a valve, is considered a "door," then doors will always win.
But again, it comes down to definition.
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Define both. Does a doorway with no door but instead beads or a curtain count? Is a tiny door a door? A cosmetic one? Are spinning and potter's wheels wheels? Casters on furniture?
I think each string of beads counts as its own door. Hear me out. If you had a double door, you'd count it as two doors, right?
If you were living in a cave and you used an object to block the entrance, that'd be a door, right?
So many objects that together serve as a door just by being in the way each count as separate doors.
But if you had an accordion door you'd only count that as one, so that's why it's each string of beads and not each bead.
Are the component parts of a hinge on a door a wheel?
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