Is it possible to built a wheel with those spokes in the Real life? I don’t ´know it.
You can’t properly tension curled spokes, so they’d have to be very thick to be able to support a wheel in a reasonable way. But not impossible (IF they make contact to the hub, unlike in the pictured sculpture).
You can also built a wheel with a cord. I never Try this.
Yes, you can. But the cord has to be tensioned properly, so it’s basically straight.
A significantly curved or even curled spoke would have to be very thick to have the necessary strength to transfer the force it takes to make a working wheel.
I hope this is the relevant thread to post this.
I was clearing out my house last year and I came across my collection of old Beano comics from the 90s (I’m 37 btw). I have 7 years worth of comics and I decided to re-read them all before throwing them out.
Anyway, the reason that I bring this up is that unicycles feature quite heavily in the Beano. Re-reading these old comics is what inspired me to try unicyling 
. I’ve attached a photo from the latest comic that I read, dated 1 April 1995.
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This is a genuine question from my daughter’s maths homework.
I told her to simply say Pierre was disqualified because the largest wheel diameter allowed for an IUF standard track race is 618mm 
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That’s very cool.
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I was testing out some endpoints to SAP in Postman and then noticed this error message:
I kinda disagree with the message. Because it is an error they prolly mean “WITH UPD”, instead of without.
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A good spot - and I agree, in the unicycling world I can’t think of a time when it would be an error not to UPD. But unicycling UPDs aside (and remembering back to my coding days of about 30 years ago!), these sort of error messages in code are meant to be a kind of development stage debug I suppose, and should ‘never happen’ after release (although at least this one looks to be traceable to one piece of code). I remember working on a big project where someone had littered the code with error messages saying ‘This won’t happen’ or ‘Shouldn’t be here’ at the end of big conditional / switch statements. That was fine as a ‘comment’ in the code to help other developers understand the flow, but then there was the time when a customer reported that the system had crashed and the final log file message said ‘This won’t happen’ 
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That is bound to happen that such messages show to the customer. In javascript I would place ‘debugger’ in all my catches, so I can see why the code errors out. But error messages to the user just say:
"An error has occurred [script.function] : " + ex.Message + ‘. Your actions landed you in a UPD’.
I rather have users report an error like that than something I won’t be able to find.
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UPD = Unplanned Debug?
Although better planned than ‘this won’t happen’!
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must be a heavenly ride!
A good one for @Canapin ‘s collection of meteorological phenomenon 
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Honestly? Makes me wanna quit unicycling!
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…then again, I‘m too addicted, fortunately. (where‘s that phew smiley when you need it?)
I would love to see you balance on a uni on the side of a baked beans jar… a very large one. I might consider you to be a clown then 
I’m surprised that it takes that much for you to consider me a clown. I’m relieved, too. Then again, maybe you were just trying to be polite…
I am always polite to you. 
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