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Stop the calculation... Your cat needs help! (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Assume a spherical cow"

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"In a frictionless vacuum"

[–] Ensign_Crab 36 points 5 months ago

A spherical cow of uniform density in a frictionless vacuum.

[–] BugleFingers 1 points 1 month ago

(Stolen from Lemmy)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

I know how to solve this, but my solution only works for spherical cubes in a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I thought cats were a liquid.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Put it in a box. Problem solved.

[–] datelmd5sum 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is cube a simple shape in physics? It' 3-dimensional and It's gonna do all sort of crazy flips due to aerodynamics and moment of inertia. I would prefer a 1-dimensional point like cat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How would a point like cat be one dimensional? It would be zero dimensional. A one dimensional cat would be a line.

[–] datelmd5sum 2 points 5 months ago

sorry. 0-dimensional cat moving in 2-dimensional space.

[–] ummthatguy 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anyone seen Space Truckers?

[–] the_tab_key 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The only thing I remember from that movie is the gas powered wang

[–] ummthatguy 3 points 5 months ago

Of papa Lannister, no less.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I prefer 'cubiform', but I never realized that cubicle could be an adjective.

[–] davidgro 1 points 5 months ago

Not spelled that way

[–] CyberTailor 5 points 5 months ago

There was a newspaper article about flying cats, where journalists assumed them flat and rectangular to simplify calculations

[–] Driveway4964 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TIL that cubicle is an adjective and a noun. I was calling things "cube like" until now

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cubicle is the noun (mini office); cubical is the adjective (having cube-like properties). :)

[–] Driveway4964 4 points 5 months ago

Oh, the spelling difference got me. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

lmao true