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Lena @gregtech.eu

5mo 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
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?
I mean if you look from far enough (usually either the sun or the moon), you can also assume it is a point
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?
- 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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