eigenraum comments on xkcd #3244: Pullback Drive

submitted 6 months ago by xkcdbot@lemmy.world [B] to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

Title text:

"How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."

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[–] eigenraum@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Exactly what I'm looking for, I live on a mountain and work in the valley.

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 points 6 months ago (1 child)

For this to work, you've gotta bring more weight down than you do back up.

Thankfully, you can just leave all your hopes and dreams at the workplace to make your car lighter on the way back!

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[–] xylol@leminal.space 16 points 6 months ago

Also your poop, drink coffee on the way in

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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

So you reverse the car to work and then coast your way home on spring power? I guess you'd have to go the long way into work.

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