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by kylehotchkiss 25 days ago
When you run the mental model of picking up a building with a bunch of surplus Hueys, do they not all collide together once they start bearing weight?
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Not if you make the strings different lengths.
In that case the helicopters lower in the pecking order will chop off the strings for the higher ones. I thing seagulls is a better idea, if it worked for a giant peach it should work for a building. Plenty of those around and they'll work for peanuts.
Balloons should do it.
“spreader bar”
But not one made out of the same stuff as those beams, they're like chocolate.