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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 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

We're doing physics aren't we?

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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