On manual cars, Why can’t a car start in a higher gear?

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As the title says, I know that different shifts mean different gear sizes bein used, but I don’t understand why it makes you unable to start moving the car. I have been able to start a couple of cars on the 2nd shift as an experiment and I understand that I could damage the car and I do it just once for testing purposes but I don’t understand why I cannot do so on other shifts. To clarify, I mean start as in start moving the car and not just turning the car on. Thanks

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Have you ever ridden a 20 speed bicycle? Next time, try this out: get up to speed, and put it on the highest gear you can. Then stop, without shifting down. This is now your car when it’s off. Now get on your bike and try to pedal that shit. Hard, right? This would be like shifting to 5th gear at the light and trying to go. What happens to you on the bike? You probably fall over. The car? It stalls.

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