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by babypuncher 1057 days ago
I think their point still stands, even if "we don't know how bikes work" is a flowery exaggeration.
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But then we don't know how anything works...
Yet we still have Insane Clown Posse refrigerator magnets.

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Scientists Try To Teach ICP Fans How Fucking Magnets Work

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But their point is we don't need a 100% complete scientific understanding of something in order to engineer it into something cool or useful.
That is true, but it's still incorrect to say we don't understand how bicycles work.