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I mean... I don't see the problem? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] Hope@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

the bell curve meme with the extremes saying that there is no issue with the posted meme, and the center of the bell curve saying it is impossible because the diagonals of a square are root two times the length of its sides

[-] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 month ago

Its possible in 3 spacial dimensions, which last time I checked is the number of dimensions we exist in.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Huh, checks out.

[-] anothercatgirl 1 points 1 month ago

Could rotate it so it looks square ish

[-] Michal@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

In theory yes, but in practice those 4 people would be standing on a plane (i.e. Ground).

[-] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

You never hang with the homies in the ISS?

[-] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yep, it's a regular triangular pyramid.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 month ago

Pythagoras wasn't the first to describe the relationship and he didn't prove it mathematically, but he still got his name attached to it for centuries.

That's life goal stuff right there.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Kind of like Lou Gehrig... lucky SOB did nothing, yet will be forever immortalized.

[-] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As he said, he was the luckiest man ~~alive~~ on the face of the Earth.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Maybe they’re standing on a sphere.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

flat-earthers hate this one proof.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

hyperbolic-earthers you mean :D

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That would make it even less possible

[-] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

How do you figure? Make a tetrahedron of the points. Form a sphere around the points. Everyone is equidistant.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, I was thinking of curved space over the surface of the sphere. Right you are. No need for me to start getting non-Euclidean

[-] Forester@pawb.social 22 points 1 month ago

It's a minimum separation guideline not a a description of a geometry.

[-] Speiser0@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

No, stop spreading misinformation! Because of you people will not be in the right positions and get covid. Downvoted.

[-] Sphks@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago

Ooooh that's why people were angry. I didn't have to follow them anytime from 1.5m ?

[-] Forester@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

I don't know why, but my Lemmy client is insisting that I haven't read your reply yet even though I've marked it red five times. So now I'm responding

[-] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

calm down man, there is an invisible and pretty large mole hill in the middle.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago

That makes it even worse

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

Hyperbolic-earthers approve.

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Mmmm, pringles!

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

I love science memes, but this is just silly. It's so obviously "at least" 1.5 meters. If you're in this exact formation, you are 1.5m from 2 people... and about 2.12m from the other one.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Then why not write >= 1.5m? Check mate atheist

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because it's implied...? The graphic is based on health experts' advice that people stay at least 1.5 meters apart, not that they stay exactly 1.5 meters apart with weird synchronized movements.

Sorry, I'm doubling-down on my argument! But the real reason is probably because not everyone knows what > and < mean...