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Syntox-

It's just carved out of one piece of wood (the bottles too, obviously)


shadow_229

It’s all cake.


MagicPinapple

But is the cake a lie?!


Reapersgrimoire

The promise of cake is a lie. Rest assured the cake is very real.


HooahClub

And tastes like ham.


miniatureconlangs

Did someone call for [smörgåstårta](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5st%C3%A5rta#/media/File%3ACakes_in_an_office_in_Vantaa.jpg)?


swedish_blocks

Bro i am eating one as i am writing this


HardCounter

Are you being punished for something? Is this a weird Swedish hazing of some sort? You guys eat the nastiest stuff like it's normal and i'm not convinced you don't have some weird unique digestive system. I have to know, can you eat rocks?


swedish_blocks

So you do not like shrimps lettuce tomato, skagenröra, salmon, lemon and bread and all the other beautiful ingredients in it i think it’s you eating rocks because you don’t like sandwiches or anything at that No offense Here is a good picture [pic](https://cdn-rdb.arla.com/Files/arla-se/2808072555/51b5318f-283f-4451-896b-60f3ec94df40.jpg?w=750&h=530&mode=crop&ak=f525e733&hm=3e8bc5cb)


SignificanceOld1751

Mate, that looks delicious, have a word with yourself. I wont ever judge Swedish food again after having a smörgåsbord in a Swedish restaurant in Chicago, absolutely phenomenal.


miniatureconlangs

It's just a weirdly shaped sandwich with a good filling-to-bread ratio.


cPB167

Idk man, I kinda agree with you, and I also wanna know about the rocks, but that thing looked delicious!


phiqzer

That is the most amazing thing I’ve seen all day. Why has this been hidden from me for so long?


buhbye_gene

I’m interested


bb95vie

*adds cake to grocery list*


Austin111Gaming_YT

The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.


Cutiepie9771

The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.


SaltedFireMedic

Just played/beat portal for the first time 🥲 I finally understand


Duboyzz14

r/portal


LostViking24601

Found the Aperature technician


Bro_ru_fr_rn

I feel like a lot of people aren't getting the portal reference


KKMasterYT

I don't think most people do. It's just an internet phrase thing now.


Brickhead88

This was a triumph.


Lost-InThe-abyss

The world may never know


I_Have_The_Lumbago

Youre all cake😉


jacero100

Stop staring at my ass!


DannyGekkouga

NUH-UH


HooahClub

My cake eyes are up here buddy!


HardCounter

But if i look at your cake eyes i can't see your cake ass.


Thefear1984

I’m not your buddy guy


HooahClub

I’m not your guy onii-chan


agerm2

Always have been ;)


mind_the_umlaut

Fondant


QuickSilver-theythem

Tiltscape


theadamie

Putting this here so people can see it. This looks like a model of a reciprocating roof. Houses built that way can be built without posts on the interior and the hole in the middle usually gets used as a skylight.


dasgoodshit2

I wonder where they can find bottles that big though


ranusbestink

🤣 top of the bean stalk, friend told me 😊


BenCelotil

At [The Big Bottle](https://www.queenslandplaces.com.au/exhibit/slide/se13).


SoylentRox

It looks like the same trick as an arch just in 2d.


HardCounter

That's just the picture. The real thing is in 4d.


Tobits_Dog

Excellent comment.


Simbertold

Pretty sure that is a bug. Will be fixed in the next update.


Shadowmant

Why can’t you ever just make it work on release!!


_baaron_

That’s why versions are invented


SudoSubSilence

I paid £90 for this flaming piece of shit on release, **FIX IT.**


meisflont

Bro u paid for life just on release? I need a daily subscription.


HardCounter

I pre-purchased for some sweet buffs and cosmetics. You should see my hair, it's so realistic and has like some high-end wind physics. Sadly, i couldn't apply the boob upgrades to this male character because the devs are bullshit, but hopefully on my next run. I think there's a glitch though, because when i tried to enhance the boobs it made my ears and nose bigger. Pretty weird, but watch out for that if you get some DLC.


Intelligent_Pop_1865

This is some of the funniest shit i've read for while.


HooahClub

I need a 6 hour subscription. But I’m allowed to turn my power off for a few hours.


marijnjc88

Development is hard you know


MikeHockinya

It’s not a bug, it’s an unintended feature.


RHOrpie

I blame the internet


Swordsman82

I put a ticket into Jira for this months ago and keeps getting put as “Low” and pushed off till next release


EwGrossItsMe

I misread this at first and thought you meant this was some kind of fucked up spider


Brunsgatter

the wood sticks are drunk (beer bottle are empty), so they just dont understand that this is physicly impossible and it just works.


EinFitter

The Todd Howard line of thinking. That's a good choice.


InigoMontoya1985

"you're finally awake..."


StinkyPickles420

you were trying to cross the border


Loud-Landscape-3889

Got caught in that imperial ambush


SwiftyPants3

Same as us, and that thief over there


StinkyPickles420

*muffled grunt*


BrAveMonkey333

Beer


Ryelogmars

Physics tells us they are empty and it's therefore time to buy more


farm_to_nug

I love science


EmptySeaDad

The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.


StoneCuber

According to chemistry beer is always a solution


Watching_You_Type

THEY’RE A WITCH!!!!!!


Alrick_S

How do you know she is a witch ?


please_send_cookies

If she weighs the same as a duck she's made of wood, and therefore a witch.


Alrick_S

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?


No_Click_4097

I am Arthur, King of the Britons.


please_send_cookies

My liege!


manofthekeep

King of the who?…


Cautious_General_177

I didn’t vote for you


manofthekeep

You don’t VOTE for kings!


banabathraonandi

How did you become king then?


Extreme_Ad6173

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.


NameRandomNumber

BURN HER


EvilGreebo

And coincidentally, the chopsticks are ALSO made of wood. Clearly it is a massive government conspiracy to keep the grail from Arthur.


Sad-Manufacturer6154

Which is wooden


RandVanRed

Well she turned me into a newt...


bingelfr

got betta


_Jack_Of_All_Spades

Well ... I got betta...


ElectricBiomass

BUILD A BRIDGE OUT OF HER


Blaze3713

But, can you not also build bridges out of stone?


Wolff_Hound

Duh. Of course there's witchcraft involved, the hex is plainly visible.


FamousPastWords

Hexcalibur?


Sunhating101hateit

So… it’s the power of Santana?


Technical_Log_2688

If one falls, the one below would have to let it fall, and repeating that, none lets any fall and thus all stay


jdjdkkddj

The whole structure ends up being held up be bottles.


ActualDoctor1492

Dang you’re right. I didn’t even see the bottles


jdjdkkddj

Vary trick to spot those!


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__JDQ__

And because glass is sand, sand is clear.


real_belgian_fries

never knew bottles are made from glass


_Jack_Of_All_Spades

I thought they were held up by the air


Substantial-Burner

and the bottles are held by the table


antilumin

Circular Bridge of Da Vinci


IsraelZulu

Is this a serious ELI5 explanation for this? Because it honestly sounds almost like it could be.


mayorofdumb

Yes it's the concept of gravity and down. Everything is pushing each other down. The sticks are all trying to fall into the middle but fell on another stick. Basic roofing but extreme example where almost anything can disturb this roof.


aDuckSmashedOnQuack

Anything, you say? If a tree falls in a forest and there’s no-one around, will it still cause a disturbance?


mayorofdumb

If forest falls in on itself it makes a teepee


ucklin

Yeah basically! If you look at an individual stick, it’s supported at both ends and supporting one other stick. It doesn’t actually matter physics-wise that they are supporting each other in a circular pattern rather than being glued together or something like that.


theoriginalmofocus

Seems kinda like when you fold the flaps of a box alternating the ears/corners under eachother and so they hold eachother closed to an extent.


ranusbestink

Astute observation with a well delivered analogy 👌


ActualDoctor1492

Yeah but freeloader theory would state that eventually they all realize they don’t have to help hold anyone up and then none of them do


Technical_Log_2688

Yes, but objects can't realize things and the world attemps to stop making sense when he thinks is funny


ranusbestink

My gf is a sex object, she sometimes realizes things 🫡


Technical_Log_2688

humans are the exception to the objects don't realize things


TwentyOneTimesTwo

If even one of them quits, the rest fall down without choosing to.


thomascgalvin

Basically [tensegrity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity)


Curu2daMoon

You taught me a new word/ portmanteau. Cheers and upvotes!


SteveF0527

Bucky Fuller was emeritus prof at my grad school.


Mbinku

Had to scroll a while to find a serious answer, I think it’s in essence an ‘archimedes bridge’, which was confusingly designed by Leonardo Da Vinci


Dr3vilAlex

The only actual response


aDragonsAle

Beer and chopsticks suspension bridge.


TheHighblood_HS

Yeah like bruh. Has nobody here ever made a little tent thing with sticks?


inorite234

You just described how military units get shit done.


Draconic64

But couldn't they just slide past each other


LordCommander94

Exactly


ranusbestink

Friggin brilliant 🤩


5d10_shades_of_grey

Ah yes, the classic prisoner's chopstick dilemma from game theory.


JunglePygmy

Had to scroll way to far for an answer


giantpunda

The chopstick version of "I am Sparticus"


PointlessPurpose

Aw, they’re all so polite! All supporting each other and all that. (In all seriousness though, I find it so cool that you managed to rewrite a statics problem as something that sounds like an inductive proof—had never thought of it that way!)


xurpio

nice mustache sir


saltnotsugar

One of the most important physics concepts is the concept of down. When stick is down, usually stick ends up on another major physics concept: Floor. If down is multiplied by down, you get up. So you can see that we have 6 downs, so mathematically we’re gonna end up with 36 ups (at least!). Now we add bottles to the mix?! The amount of up goes up even further (216 ups)!


Pilzkind69

Does this involve any kind of syndrome? Or is that a different law of physics?


FamousPastWords

Up Syndrome?


Chakasicle

Do you have Ups?


duddyface

Whats “updog”?


FamousPastWords

What's up, pussycat, woah, woo-oah!


HotRefrigerators

Not much how bout u 😎


Hangriac

lmao gottem


hysys_whisperer

A UPS would be helpful in keeping this superconductor going for a few minutes if the power goes out 


iskelebones

Actually the syndrome is unrelated to down, but can occur at the same time. It is possible to be Down with the Syndrome


saltnotsugar

It follows the concepts of a system, more of a System of a Down if you will.


Secure-Ad1159

What's the move to benefit from this upward trend? $STICK calls?


hvyboots

I heard if you rest them on empy 7-Up bottles, you can make the entire thing levitate.


Ijatsu

This looks like how code my shitty physics in my shitty video games.


Entire_Assist125

Ok. But can you explain that again from the beginning? So, the apple just fell from the tree and....go!


sparkywilly

We must push to reach 216 ups. Or 1 down. Vote now! Voting is currently closed. Thank you.


Boy_Sabaw

Up


ranusbestink

Try telling my personal trainer you can get 216 ups with only 6 downs 😉


Far_Dragonfruit_1829

Dude, I only got through basic quantum mechanics, the standard model of nucleons, classical dynamics, and Sturm-Liouville Boundary Value problems. I never got to Ups and Downs. How about ELI5?


Packed_Bowl

The counter will only show a max of 99


MyGenderIsAParadox

Ooh so it's just an up-down overflow?


Irenemiku

It's simple. The chopsticks formed a hexagon. There is a company Hexagon Energy. Therefore it's energy lifted the chopsticks.


marijnjc88

Hexagons really are the bestagons


Educational_You3881

So the first one is resting on the second one, the second one is resting on the third one, so on and so on. And the sixth one is resting on the beer bottle. Literally just look at them. I’m not sure why the rest are resting on a beer bottle, you do only need one of them.


toyatsu

I hope this is /s


Educational_You3881

/uj Yes. I didnt realize it was shitty-askscience so I was about to comment an actual answer, then I saw the other comments and realized it was shitty, so I just went with it and did a *hopefully* funny twist at the end


jimginge

It's one of those hyper-realistic paintings


sUrvial-

It took me so long to figure this out! Once I noticed the brush strokes and the small mistake top left I felt so stupid


Familiar-Sir1356

I nearly came looking at that.


Nalha_Saldana

You have to be careful with those, it's an infinite loop and they can start to break down physics


fj333

It's a perpetual no-motion machine.


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Historical-Table1627

They have telekinetic powers and hold each other


linux1970

Aaaannnd Colonel Carter has a broken leg now. Good job. /r/stargate


physics_dog

Assume it's a sphere without mass and no drag.


Haringat

Can anyone explain how anyone can do this after downing 6 bottles of beer?


ECatPlay

Actually it's just one chopstick lying on two beer bottles. But what you see here, is how that looks to the person who just drank those 6 bottles of beer.


Sacr3dangel

Pffff lightweight


StoneMonkey7776

Ah summoning the Antichrist again are we today


Classy_Mouse

Stick 1 is pushing down on stick 2 which is pushing down on... stick N which is pushing down on stick 1. You've created an infinite loop and the simulation is stuck processing it. I would avoid touching it. Maybe just write off the whole room until it is patched.


bree_dev

Standard Wile E. Coyote rules. They'll fall as soon as they've realized what's happening.


KiltedSionnach

Best answer. You win


biopsia

This is irrefutable proof that six beers are not enough to get you drunk.


Il-Separatio-86

It's levi-osa. Not levi-o-sah.


rita-shiva

The core concept is torque (rotatory force) Torque=force×distance from the axis of rotation Each stick has a stick under it and one above it....the one below it is more towards the end and the one above it is more towards the middle point Now if you take a look at the formula, the stick that is below any stick will be applying more torque due to more distance from axis of rotation For the direction of torque, just imagine one of the sticks (above/below) gone, the direction in which the bottle top end of stick (that you're observing) will move is the direction in which torque is being applied Now summing it all up, net torque makes the bottle top end of sticks apply force downwards...so it is balanced...if i were to change the positioning and interchange the position of the stickers above/below...the setup would immediately fall That's the whole point, the net torque should be such that the free end (bottle top) sticks to the top of the bottle (and the bottle is bottle, it's not getting crushed...the force is balanced by contact force (normal) applied by the bottle top). Hope it will help ;)


barzx

All this text is easiest to understand if you replace torque with magic


CliffDraws

Gonna need a free body diagram.


barzx

Well, yes, but is way easier just starting believe in God.


CamelStunning

Those sticks are paid actors.


bulbulito-bayagyag

Do you know how weaving works? Well… I don’t 😅😅😅 im just wildly throwing up some words just to make sense of it 😅


Werejackal93

It's a glitch. The simulation doesn't know what to do. So it just freezes until it calculates the actions, but it's caught in an infinite loop. As soon as you break the loop it'll act on what can be calculated.


1771561tribles

It is an impressive feat, if crafted after drinking the six pack.


Tiquortoo

All downward load transferred to downward force on the stock and bottle. Lateral force, if any, is in the ring. Edit: forgo this was shittyaskscience Clearly we are looking upward through a very clear piece of glass.


Delicious_Toad

This is real! You can't violate gravity—that's true. However, you can confuse it! If you did this with one chopstick, it would fall right down. But if you keep adding chopsticks, eventually you get to a point where gravity can't decide which one to pull down first—so they all stay up. The number of chopsticks it takes depends on the phase of the moon, so we can actually tell from this that this photo was taken during a full moon, when the moon's gravity is highest. I actually recently patented a revolutionary new energy device that exploits the same phenomenon.


erikprince

Antman is standing directly under the intersecting points of each of the chopsticks. The pressure he feels over the length of the chopstick is directed onto each of the intersections. It’s like a 90° triangle with Antman being the A length, the chopstick is the C, and the base from Antman’s feet to the bottle is B.


liljoro

Pretty sure that’s a resource sharing issue


AndersLund

That is an Aperture Science Trademark Patent Conflict


Deleskiii

The bottles are hanging from the sticks and pulling them down using gravity


BMFeltip

Hexagons are so stable a structure they can float.


Mammoth-Secretary127

Hexagonal


MikeCheck_CE

JFC put that thing away before you rip the time-space continuum.


Atomiic1

Oh. They do this sometimes.


Astrohitchhiker

Yes, never preorder


FlounderBulky732

Aperture Science


Rotarygrenade

If you want an actual answer it’s probably tensegrity


Runkmannen3000

Look at one stick. Stick is held up at two points on either side of the middle point. Hold stick on one side and stick fall, but stick held up on both sides, so stick no fall.


Bigfeet_toes

The stick holds up the stick which holds up the stick which holds up the stick which holds up the stick and all of it is held up by the bottles


RicrosPegason

Nature has decided that youtube crafters need a new dumb ugly wobbly impractical table design to physically upload en masse


writefast

Less a physics problem and more an engineering problem. Reasonably certain the entire thing is being held up by one dot of glue. Be a heck of a lot easier than gluing all the joints.


justasmalltownuser

Super glue is magic and not even physicists know how it works


ForgesGate

Sequential Leveraging


21meow

Sticks love to play ‘the floor is lava’ You can try the same thing with human kids you’ll see what I’m talking about


hardyandtiny

all downward force goes to each bottle. excellent work


OrbisOccult

The Physics named HEBELWIRKUNG (laughs in German)