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   Brian K said, 7 months ago

   Just don’t go on bumpy roads
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   ekw said, 7 months ago

   first I thought they were stone wheels off the Flintstone’s car, but then I thought Mobius Strips.
   THEN I saw the license plate.
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   Colonel Claus said, 7 months ago

   well, I wouldn’t say… forever… thats a long time, ya know.
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   Jonathan Lemon said, 7 months ago

   @ekw

   You’ve no idea how hard it was to draw Möbius strip tires.
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   phritzg said, 7 months ago

   @Jonathan Lemon

   By a strange coincidence, my daily email from Weird Universe had George Hart’s pictures of how to make a Möbius bagel. (http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html)
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   markjoseph125 said, 7 months ago

   Actually, they would still wear out, but on one side only. Of course, a regular tire only wears out on one side also…
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago

   I wonder what Möbius himself and Firestone would think of it? Anyone for experimental tire design?
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   Daoine said, 7 months ago

   NPR’s “Car Talk” had a puzzler a few months ago that had to do with a design for a serpentine belt that would last twice as long as the current model. A Mobius strip configuration was the answer. Love the license plate, too!
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   mdalton said, 7 months ago

   @Daoine – That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the strip, though I heard the puzzler years ago.
   

   
   I’m only an occasional listener of “Car Talk,” but I remember that one because it was one of the few I figured out. (Not that I put a whole lot of effort into the puzzlers. I usually think about them as long as the segment lasts, then forget about it altogether, unless I happen to be listening when they give the solution.)
   

   
   @Jonathan Lemon – All that work paid off; the tires look like they took a few seconds to draw. It’s hard to make something complicated look easy and natural. My compliments.
   

   
   Did you hear this joke on “The Big Bang Theory”:
   

   
   Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip?
   To get to the same side.
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    exoticdoc2 said, 7 months ago

    Optical illusions might “last” but they aren’t really functional.
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    old1953 said, 7 months ago

    Au contraire, moebius strip conveyor belts and other fabric applications have been around for quite a while.
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