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Physics books are a classic (gregtech.eu)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] owenfromcanada 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Still more accurate than "assume spherical cow"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's already a step up from a spherical chicken in vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Spherical chicken isn't an approximation tho

[–] Dagnet 5 points 6 days ago

Hangry birds

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

It’s imperative the cylinder remains unharmed

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

i mean yeah give or take

[–] Zugyuk 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is more like a video game developer 😁

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Like the time that one game didn't want to implement a separate train system, so trains are implemented as a huge hat that a NPC wears while going underground on the rails.

[–] toynbee 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

From what I've seen commented in the past, that was Fallout. I think New Vegas?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fallout 3, apparently

[–] toynbee 1 points 6 days ago

Ah, my mistake. Thank you for the edification.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Ok, consider it done.

[–] iAvicenna 10 points 6 days ago

I mean if you look from far enough (usually either the sun or the moon), you can also assume it is a point

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 5 points 6 days ago

I dropped my cylinder off the side of a mountain may I have another

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As opposed to a non-circular cylinder?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

elyptical cylinders exist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Huh, I'd considered "prism" to be the general and "cylinder" to be specifically circular, but apparently cylinder is general. Go figure.

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

isn't it only a prism when the base is a polygon ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Cylinders are the extreme upper limit of a prism