Field guide No. 867
Freight wagon outweighed by a feather
The scale is out by a feather
A huge freight wagon hangs from one side of a crane, balanced against a single feather on the other. The math is having a quiet day.
Field noteA feather balances a freight wagon on a crane. The scales have taken the day off.
- Specimen
- No. 867
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A gravel yard beneath a crane.
- Nearest existing relative
- A freight wagon.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
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Frostbound fire in a deserted yardIce and flame cancel each other out, and here each holds the other in place along the yard’s floor.