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xkcd #3276: Recursive Trucker's Hitch

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As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3276/

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[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 46 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, the nonsense we can get up to when we ignore friction and the tensile strength of materials...

[-] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago

We're doing physics aren't we?

[-] volore@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Just think of the nonsense we could get up to if we made it spherical and put it in a vacuum, too!

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