Fucking gyroscopes, how do they work?
Okay so have you guys ever seen a gyroscope? If you've ever seen a bicycle, you have seen a gyroscope. Gyroscope are big wheels just spinning around, and they are magical. Look at this fucking thing:
Look at what that bitch just did. She put the wheel down, and then the wheel didn't fall. What you didn't know about this is that this shit cannot be explained. Seriously, ask a physicist. Nobody knows why the wheel didn't fall. I just asked one, and guess what he said: "Nobody knows why the wheel didn't fall".
Okay so basically, we know that, when something is used to doing things a certain way, it continues to do the same thing. This phenomenon is called "inertia", and it means like that thing is set in its ways, like how your dad can't stop drinking. If you spin a wheel, the wheel will keep spinning until something stops it, which is what inertia does.
At this point, I'm like "okay wheel, I get it, you like to conserve your momentum, it's cool. You're spinning about the z axis, so go on and conserve your momentum, but ima spin you about the x axis, okay? You aren't spinning about that axis, so just be cool" and the wheel is like "NO FUCK YOU, IMA CONSERVE MOMENTUM ON ALL MY AXES, FUCK OFF".
Not only is this unsportsmanlike behavior on the wheel's part, but nobody knows why the wheel gotta be such a dick. There are numerous scientific papers written on this, the most prominent of which is titled "Conservation of momentum and the gyroscopic effect: Why wheels gotta be dicks?". My ACM subscription expired, or I'd link you to the paper, but I can't afford it because I live in the projects.
So, seriously now, if anyone knows how this shit works without saying "oh, it's all math", just leave a comment below. The winner gets a million freudian pesos.


