r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/chirantaniga • 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Whyyyy peter?

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u/CormundCrowlover 4d ago

But wouldn't it cost a lot of fuel?

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u/sivartimus 4d ago

Yes but we have Sherpas for that

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u/NotGonnaRage 4d ago

With rockets so it's faster

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u/oryx_za 4d ago edited 3d ago

Have we just solved unemployment in nepal?

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u/Acceptingoptimist 4d ago

It's the perpetual motion machine right under our noses.

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u/somethingmorecrazy 4d ago

Its just sherpas all the way down.

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u/Viscount61 4d ago

How about a steam catapult instead of an electromagnetic one?

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u/SentientAnarchy 4d ago

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u/Viscount61 4d ago

Excellent.

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u/TheWooshiii 3d ago

I would prefer my Amazon package be delivered by rocket sherpa from now on. How do I speak to Jeff Bezos about this quadrillion dollar idea immediately?
And it will only save us more money if we launch the sherpas from the top of mountains!

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u/Jazzlike-Disaster-33 4d ago

She said, What is history?
And he said, History is an angel Being blown
Backwards
Into the future

He said: History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise

And the storm keeps blowing the angel
Backwards
Into the future

And this storm, this storm Is called
Progress

- Laurie Anderson, The dream before

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u/Enigmatic_Erudite 1d ago

Have we tried nuclear? The Plumbub manhole cover had enough Speed to leave Earths orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob

Before anyone feels the need to mention it, yes they did consider using small nuclear explosions to put things in space.

https://futurism.com/nuclear-bombs-and-shuttles-the-plausibility-of-propelling-a-craft-by-nuclear-explosions-2

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u/optykali 3d ago

Also, It's easier (and cheaper) to grow Sherpas than mountains.

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u/Maelou 4d ago

As they say, the hardest with perpetual motion machines is hiding the sherpa

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u/LifeTie800 4d ago

The difficulty with building a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the rocket powered Sherpa.

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u/Acceptingoptimist 4d ago

Man, if I had a dollar for every time that came up when I was building one.

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u/oryx_za 4d ago

Listen, I don't know what you are saying....but what ever sherpa number you have in your head ...double it.

My goal is that by 2035 humanities workforce will be 50% AI, 50% sherpa.

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u/InterestingPay9446 3d ago

What percent rocket?

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u/oryx_za 3d ago

It's all rocket.

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u/Nut_Job_Maniac 4d ago

You mean perpetual Sherpa machine?

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u/Leather-Squirrel-421 4d ago

“Sherpetual Motion Machine” was right there

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u/wildjakes 4d ago

swing and a miss

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u/Substantial_Disk1706 3d ago

Hey batta batta hey batta batta SWING ⚾️

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u/Tino-DBA 3d ago

If you tie two sherpas together back to back…

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u/Rude-Poetry5574 3d ago

We can provide a Sherpa for each Sherpa. The Sherpa’s Sherpa

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u/New-Resident3385 2d ago

Nepalpetual motion.... dont worry on my way out already.

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u/Latter_Ad5697 2d ago

Have anyone thought of fitting the perpetual motion machine with rockets

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u/LitigiousLobster 4d ago

But now all the rocket scientists are unemployed.

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u/AkumaO_O 4d ago

But then who will make the rockets for the sherpas?

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u/eternalapostle 4d ago

We can strap rockets to the rocket scientists so they can get employment faster

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u/LitigiousLobster 4d ago

So we employ rockets to employ rocket scientists?

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u/Tino-DBA 3d ago

We can strap scientists to the sherpa rockets to get them up the mountain faster

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u/MerleFSN 4d ago

They‘ve been promoted to sherpa rocket scientists (name patent pending)

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u/LitigiousLobster 4d ago

Sherpatist™️

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u/oryx_za 4d ago

It's wrong...but i have replaced sherpas with minions in my head.

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u/MyStackIsPancakes 4d ago

They can work as Sherpas

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u/Gargleblaster25 4d ago

We have just disrupted an industry. Time to take this to IPO.

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u/KitchenSandwich5499 3d ago

Not necessarily. Apparently there are Sherpa job openings available

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u/FredB123 3d ago

Use them as sherpas?

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u/MajornXXVI 3d ago

They can retrain to become sherpas

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u/NewspaperDear8761 2d ago

Rocket scientist here.

Can I quit and become a rocket-powered Sherpa, hauling rockets and other Sherpas up mountains?

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u/MWSin 4d ago

I think we solved population in Nepal.

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u/egmalone 3d ago

All 626 residents were killed

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u/SaltyPressure7583 4d ago

Unfortunately i think Nepal just sorted that out yesterday. Rip

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u/oryx_za 4d ago

Yikes....this took a turn.

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u/notabotaboy 4d ago

Way too soon. Way too dark. Loved every second of it. Bravo.

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u/Character_Top5141 4d ago

Damnn, too early dude. Wayy too early

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u/SaltyPressure7583 4d ago

I know dude, that was terrible. But my vanta-black sense of humor just can't be contained sometimes

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u/magaoitin 4d ago

Yea, but unless you are from Napal and somehow have internet access (maybe with a solar panel on the back of an Alpaca?), not one Nepalese has complained about the joke yet, so u/SaltyPressure7583 might be onto something /s

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u/Taht_Funky_Dude 3d ago

u/SaltyPressure7583 made a dark joke and you went: "Here bro have some more black paint" 🤣

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u/taylorisntavril 4d ago

Jesus christ lol. Well played.

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u/MakkaCha 4d ago

Not all Nepali are Sherpas.

Source: I'm Nepali.

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u/punksmostlydead 3d ago

I note that you have not actually denied being a sherpa.

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u/aaaaa-6969 4d ago

Actually yeah, the ensuing avalanches will wipe out all of Nepal’s population. No population = no unemployment.

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u/Egst 4d ago

Sounds like a pyramid scheme

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u/ElmerFuddsElbow 4d ago

A few construction jobs opened up this week. This problem has already been solved

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u/MechAegis 4d ago

Pretty sure we need to solve education elsewhere besides Nepal...

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u/Successful-Clock-224 4d ago

No, the earthquake did that

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u/LooksBetterWithDrops 4d ago

As long as we pay them in Paddys Dollars

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u/Novel_Alternative_86 3d ago

Yes. And we’ve also solved the Sherpa/Rocket Equation.

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u/EmperorMittens 3d ago

Given what's happened to them recently I don't think there is a shortage of work.

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u/Defiant-Magician6092 3d ago

In a way, yes

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u/wilsonmg8181 3d ago

I’m pretty sure a flood just solved that problem.

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u/NTwoOo 3d ago

Kenya, Peru and Ecuador, you mean. Equator is an important part as you have a higher starting speed thanks to the rotating speed of the Earth.

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u/h2oskid3 3d ago

This is the logic that brings me to Reddit

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u/GodWithoutAName 3d ago

There's employment in Napal?

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u/Mundane_Ladder_4867 3d ago

I think the mudslide did that

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u/Bureaucratic_Dick 1d ago

Sherpa is an ethic group not a job title.

But yes, yes you guys did.