There is no way the design took two years and required supercomputers
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But they had to crunch the numbers
Oh shit I take it back
Okay, I'll bite. Tell me more about how they did it.
He just did
The math is so complex that research into Pringles with ridges was considered a national secret and it was classified. DARPA was rumored to have provided partial funding.
With the stuff about 'super computers', this seems more like a shitpost than a science meme.
Completely leaves out that you can use two of them to make yourself look like a duck
And it's cheaper than lip fillers.
What “supercomputer” did they use in 1968 to make the chip shape when Pringles were invented?
Edit:
My digging around has resulted in this find:
A real human bean
10 vacuum tubes
I guess they needed it to mathematically design and calculate with it but idk
ENIAC was built in 1945. And Cray was building supercomputers in the 60s
I understand that there were “supercomputers” for the day, but I don’t think they called them that. They were just computers. I want to know exactly which one was used to design a reconstituted potato chip.
Somehow they also designed them so the tube goes stale roughly 2 minutes after opening it. Also the lovely texture reminiscent of sawdust. Truly a marvel of engineering.
I don't think you're supposed to eat the tube, shouldn't matter that it goes stale.
"Once you pop you can't stop" is actually a warning about this
Personally, it always decreased satisfaction that it breaks unpredictably, because I'd get crumbs everywhere. In particular, the shape also hinders putting them far enough into your mouth to catch the crumbs.
Definitely prefer chips which are just sliced potatoes. Them being a naturally grown structure makes them unpredictable enough for my taste.
I really thought everyone was eating them entirely and in stacks of 5 ...
No, the shape hinders putting the far enough into your mouth. Luckily, I've got a big one.
Wait...
Also abot 10-15% of thr chips crumble at the bottom to cushion the rest of the pringles
This meme is wrong and likely based on a Reddit post that is itself wrong.
“TIL that in the '50s P&G used a supercomputer for designing Pringles…”
The only source I found referencing pringles association with a supercomputer was a 2007 article with this sentence:
Pringles potato chips are designed using [supercomputing] capabilities -- to assess their aerodynamic features so that on the manufacturing line they don't go flying off the line," said Dave Turek, vice president of deep computing at IBM.)
Pringle’s didn’t exist until 1968. Why would they waste a decade’s worth of supercomputing time (per the Reddit post that they were designed in the “‘50s using a supercomputer”) to design a potato chip?
It does not state that the chips were designed in ‘68 with a supercomputer. It directly states that “today’s supercomputers”…”are creating potato chips”, so their current design was done that way for the purposes of expedited manufacturing processes.
The Reddit posts even links to the article stating that the reference for supercomputer usage in Pringle’s design is modern.
The Supermarine Spitfire.
The London Metro map design.
The Pringles potato chip.
I had read that they create downforce so they stay put on a conveyor
That actually makes way more sense why a supercomputer was involved. (Keeping in mind, our phones are likely more powerful than what they are talking about)
Edit: Oh, it's worse than I thought. The CRAY-1 supercomputer is 4.5x slower than a Raspberry Pi.
I remember reading somewhere that they also deliberately put different amounts of flavorant on each side of the chip so that you can choose to have more or less flavor intensity based on which side you place against your tongue.
If by deliberate you mean the sprayers that spray all the artificial flavors, liquefied added nutrients, and related shit are on top of the "chip" as it moves down a conveyor, then sure I guess it's deliberate.
They should be smaller though, so they fit in one piece into the mouth withouth hurting yourself.
Huh? I can very easily fit an entire Pringle in my mouth. And I don't think I have that big of a mouth actually. They also don't have any sharp corners or break into sharp pieces, so I can eat it without worrying about cutting the inside of my mouth.
I don't really like what this says about me.
> They also don't have any sharp corners or break into sharp pieces,
This man has never been within 10 meters of a IRL pringle.
Bro I can fit a stack of Pringles in my mouth.
They've suffered shrinkflation in my home country and they're much smaller.
It's an all-sided showel for sauce, yum.
And I still don't like the shape. I can't bite in it properly.
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You're goddamn right!