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Smooth Wheeled Rover

The spacemen of Classic Space were happy bunch. Indeed they were perpetually smiling and avoided arguments and friction at all times. This eventually led to the design of smooth, friction free wheels, amongst other items.

 

You'd think that due to Newton's Third Law, the tyres would have had no grip and the vehicle would be unable to move. When challenged in court case, the Wheel Design Collective of Llwyngwril Systems' Vehicle Department used the following argument, based on a legal precedent from Mega Dodo Publications. They claimed that their version of Newton's Laws were the more aesthetically pleasing and...

 

"...summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf.”

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Uploaded on February 27, 2016