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[–] adam_y 83 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] adam_y 14 points 10 months ago

I feef you.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Zero. Then all the other measurements make sense.

[–] Huschke 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But then the two on the bottom would have to be inside one another.

[–] JackFrostNCola 9 points 10 months ago

Its an awkward position but it is possible

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Kinky. But no, not necessarily. You could say that one of them is the actual person and the other "person" is just the first person's shadow. It's a stretch, but it's the best I've got.

[–] Pirasp 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That totally works, but only when Positionen on an appropriately sized sphere

[–] Wilzax 20 points 10 months ago

🫵 Deutsche

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So unless you are a flat earther, you cannot complain?

[–] Pirasp 2 points 10 months ago

I guess so, also it puts into perspective, how big a feef is. It would have to be 1/4 of the Earth's circumference. Or maybe they are standing on a smaller sphere.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The meme artist here is not thinking in enough dimensions. These constraints result in a tetrahedron. So you just need to stand in a triangle formation and have the last guy go in the center and float less than the average human height above ground.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn i hate when some other pedant beats me to it in the comments!

[–] TokenBoomer 3 points 10 months ago

Stephen Hawking isn’t a pedant, he only went to Epstein’s island to get away from light pollution.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Solve for feef.

[–] AdrianTheFrog 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It makes sense if you interpret it as ≥6, which is probably what they meant anyways.

Edit: I'm pretty sure it also works in hyperbolic space

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you're fine in just 3 dimensions. If the person to the upper left and lower right have a separate elevation from the other two, this is basically just the shape of a 4 sided die.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] Siegfried 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, that's not practical, but is physically possible, we just need someone moving on stilts and we are done

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Just a simple tetrahedron of people.

[–] mvirts 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Rhombus of terror?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Implying flat Cartesian space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But people exist only on Earth so what do you suggest? Earth being some spinning bouncy ball instead of a majestic plane?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

But how many feet are in a foof? 🤔

[–] anubis119 10 points 10 months ago

I never thought I'd need to remember that math equation. Little did I know I'd need it to answer a meme on Lemmy. 8.485.

[–] JusticeForPorygon 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Approx. 8.5 feet for anyone curious

6√2 if anyone wants to be more specific

[–] RIP_Cheems 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"FIVE MINUTES. GIVE ME FIVE MINUTES."

[–] nonagonOrc 8 points 10 months ago

"I JUST WANT TO TALK TO THEM."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It works in three-dimensional space...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Everyone's saying that this works in 3 dimensional space, but this also works in 2 dimensional space such that each side could be at a minimum six feet. The resulting structure would be a rhombus and not a square, with the distance between two of the individuals being much greater than 6 feet, though, which the artist did not accurately represent.

[–] finkrat 3 points 10 months ago

Wait so to maintain social distancing I need to perform a ~~tire~~ people rotation?

[–] thinkyfish 3 points 10 months ago

Look, lets be honest here, they'd be holding Neil back instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But why are two physicists holding him back?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Dunno why Pythagoras would be mad, since the Pythagorean theorem was known for at least a thousand years before his time.

[–] TokenBoomer 2 points 10 months ago

COVID played the long division game.

[–] Rhapsodicink 0 points 10 months ago

The world started with Greece m8

[–] TrickDacy -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Great, you can't even correctly type a title for the image you stole. High effort

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don' know wha you mean

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure he'll get rich and famous with all the upvotes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No, on the contrary, it cost me a lot of money paying 600 users for upvotes