#science_memes
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I mean if you look from far enough (usually either the sun or the moon), you can also assume it is a point
That’s already a step up from a spherical chicken in vacuum.
Spherical chicken isn’t an approximation tho
<img alt="" src="https://i.redd.it/9xtl8hjc60aa1.jpg">
Hangry birds
Still more accurate than “assume spherical cow”
<img alt="" src="https://gregtech.eu/pictrs/image/c223c51e-e873-4bcb-888e-9d1875764ec7.jpeg">
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?
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Fallout 3, apparently
Ah, my mistake. Thank you for the edification.
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.
isn’t it only a prism when the base is a polygon ?
Cylinders are the extreme upper limit of a prism
i mean yeah give or take
Ok, consider it done.
I dropped my cylinder off the side of a mountain may I have another
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I mean if you look from far enough (usually either the sun or the moon), you can also assume it is a point
That’s already a step up from a spherical chicken in vacuum.
Spherical chicken isn’t an approximation tho
<img alt="" src="https://i.redd.it/9xtl8hjc60aa1.jpg">
Hangry birds
Still more accurate than “assume spherical cow”
<img alt="" src="https://gregtech.eu/pictrs/image/c223c51e-e873-4bcb-888e-9d1875764ec7.jpeg">
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?
.
Fallout 3, apparently
Ah, my mistake. Thank you for the edification.
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.
isn’t it only a prism when the base is a polygon ?
Cylinders are the extreme upper limit of a prism
i mean yeah give or take
Ok, consider it done.
I dropped my cylinder off the side of a mountain may I have another