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Lena @gregtech.eu

4w ago

Physics books are a classic

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Still more accurate than "assume spherical cow"

That's already a step up from a spherical chicken in vacuum.
- Spherical chicken isn't an approximation tho
  
  Hangry birds

It’s imperative the cylinder remains unharmed

i mean yeah give or take

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

This is more like a video game developer 😁
- 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.
  
  From what I've seen commented in the past, that was Fallout. I think New Vegas?

Ok, consider it done.

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

As opposed to a non-circular cylinder?
- elyptical cylinders exist
  
  Huh, I'd considered "prism" to be the general and "cylinder" to be specifically circular, but apparently cylinder is general. Go figure.

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