stackyFACTSWheels are considered brilliant purely because they cheat friction. Instead of aggressively dragging two rough surfaces across one another and losing everything to heat, a rolling object merely peels away from the surface continuously. It is essentially an infinite series of tiny, highly efficient lifts.
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