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/
Disappointed he didn't do the math for number of loops needed (assuming no friction and infinite strength rope) .
So... Where do you guys source your unbreakable rope?
Same place I get my infinite 2d planes
Is that where the spherical cows are too?
Used to be, until someone ignored air resistance and they all died.
Those twist ties that come with the new perfume gun you're trying to open.
Ah, the nonsense we can get up to when we ignore friction and the tensile strength of materials...
We're doing physics aren't we?
Seriously though, if you learn one knot make it the trucker’s hitch. You’ll never buy ratchet straps again
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