xkcd #3276: Recursive Trucker's Hitch
Title text:
As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3276/
The Explainxkcd for this lead me to the Wikipedia article for Block and tackle, which lead me to Block (sailing), whose first paragraph is giving me Plumbus vibes:
In sailing, a block is a single or multiple pulley. One or a number of sheaves are enclosed in an assembly between cheeks or chocks. In use, a block is fixed to the end of a line, to a spar, or to a surface. A line (rope) is reeved through the sheaves, and maybe through one or more matching blocks at some far end, to make up a tackle.
Ah, the nonsense we can get up to when we ignore friction and the tensile strength of materials...
So... Where do you guys source your unbreakable rope?
Explainxkcd: "Obviously, this would not work."
Me:
Seriously though, if you learn one knot make it the trucker’s hitch. You’ll never buy ratchet straps again
Disappointed he didn't do the math for number of loops needed (assuming no friction and infinite strength rope) .
This is not what the trucker did to me when he said he'd show me his truckers hitch
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