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Originally Posted by cromag
Think carefully, guys. I once had a field mouse take refuge in one of my hub caps (warmed by the brakes on a cold winter day). I didn't find him until after my next road trip, which involved some moderately high speed driving on a state highway.
Centripetal force is a killer!  |
But if the 'beings' were tiny enough wouldn't they then possibly be able to deal with the results of the centripetal forces without injury? I mean their surface area would have to be very minute for a whole race of beings to live inside a tire and they'd have to have evolved there in the 1st place so that they were able to take it. I could see them working up a whole mythology to explain why such forces struck at times, and of course their sense of time could be a lot different from ours. Robert L. Forward wrote two books "Dragon's Egg" and "Starquake" about alien beings who live on the surface of a neutron star. So I could see very tiny beings evolving within a tire being able to exist even with such forces coming now and then. Perhaps from their pov there is a period of upset every few 1000 yrs or so which is on average every 8-10 hrs our time as the driver of the car goes to and from work, and now and then these periods come early or late depending on if the driver goes into work early or stays late.