There's not much to understand. Basically he didn't do anything wrong.
from rustydomino@lemmy.world to lotrmemes@midwest.social on 27 Nov 17:10
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Ioughttamow@fedia.io on 27 Nov 17:45 next collapse

Why would you build ships out of wood if not to burn them?

verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works on 27 Nov 17:52 next collapse

The rarest, most ancient trees volunteered for the project and they burn the best!

SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world on 28 Nov 00:24 collapse

Upon arriving at the New World, Cortezh burned hish shipsh behind them. Ash a reshult, hish men were well motivated.

Scubus@sh.itjust.works on 28 Nov 00:01 collapse

Do you get extra move speed if you stack multiple propulsion systems? Like if I had motorized wheels on my shoes id have n speed. If I walked id have h speed. If I walked with motorized wheels on my shoes do I just acheive the higher between n and h, or do they add up together?

drolex@sopuli.xyz on 28 Nov 10:07 next collapse

It’s just relativity of motion depending on the frame of reference. For instance, if I have motorised shoes and am walking on an elephant running on a train that progresses on a large ball rolling on a treadmill (with friction) while a monkey is running on the ball in the other direction (without friction); relative to my dog sitting on the couch (with friction), the couch is immobile.

Scubus@sh.itjust.works on 28 Nov 12:58 collapse

What if i take the dash option

tpyo@lemmy.world on 28 Nov 17:00 collapse

It’s not exactly what you asked, but I’m a little high: if you could decouple the propulsion systems you could go faster. Just like you can’t dangle a magnet in front of a boat to get it to move while it is attached to the same boat

But it reminds me of this:

An article-

wired.com/…/why-are-these-caterpillars-climbing-o…

And a video(s)-

youtu.be/kbFMkXTMucA

youtu.be/JMi20j0rkVg

Edit:

Also, looking at the picture again and rereading what you wrote: I feel like it’d be like the difference between a person walking parallel to a person walking on a conveyor belt that’s running the same direction they are. Something would be moving you along as you are also moving.

I back that up with the fact the elephant will only have one foot off the ground while walking same as a human would, and their spiderbowl feet would keep it moving forward at a constant rate same as the conveyor would