Sesame Street - The invention of the wheel

Good thing man didn't think ahead or we may not have had a wheel! A quick one from the 70's. Enviromentalists will like this one!

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Film & Animation

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• Sesame
• Street
• cartoon
• caveman
• rock
• round
• wheel
• car
• cars

[jfpinell]

It's easy to invent things people need. The real challenge is coming up with stuff no one could use in a million years....like a solar powered flashlight, or an electric sponge or an aluminum umbrella or a remote-controlled sock.....

[freesk8]

@stevenrf69 How do I know what? That no one uses a wheel like they do in the BC comic strip?

[stevenrf69]

how do u know?

[mattymuck]

@freesk8 i said the significance of round objects for other animals, maybe the first wheel made in practice for transport could be considered an invention but the basic aspects behind it seem common sense to me.

[freesk8]

@mattymuck I'd be surprised if you could find any evidence that animals "recognize the significance of round objects." But the wheel is much more than just a round object. It involves axles and journal bearings, at the least. No one uses a wheel like they do in the BC comic strip: just standing on one wheel. To be useful, you at least have to make a cart. This is something that is WAY beyond the simple tools that chimps and the highest non-human animals have ever done. Carts were invented.

[mattymuck]

@freesk8 how is the wheel an invention? It's common sense, other animals could probably recognise the significance of round objects.

[d72jjpilc]

@d72jjpilc Also, I wonder if this is the clip which led to the rise and fall of the Detroit Big Three!:)

[Smartboy8877]

@freesk8

I guess that what you are saying is that arguements for and against progress can go in a lot of different directions.

[mattzo21]

WTF

[d72jjpilc]

'Who needs it?' I remember that line very well, and I guess it shows that while imagination and creativity are good, too much ambition can lead to problems. Thus, a 'balance' between the two must be struck.