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Help! Something sensitive is stuck in a cylinder and I need to get it out…
It is not a square cylinder.
A triangular cylinder is right out.
But what shall I do once a circular cylinder has been assumed? A cylinder whose cross section takes the shape of a circle?
Accelerate the penguin to 99% the speed of light
Assume no air resistance
Now assume pi is 4. Proceed to have a nervous breakdown.
20 points.
Therefore the density of penguin flesh on a flat glacier surface can be estimated to be 3pi/4 l x w x h where length and width are the area of the penguins, and h is the average height of the penguin.
Not sure if it’s popular internationally, but in Russian, “a calculation for a spherical horse in vacuum” is used quite often
Spherical cows is the one I always hear.
What does it mean?
It’s when you make some calculations or plans, but they would only work in “perfect” conditions. Like when you have an assignment about a horse running from A to B, and you made some calculations, but you disregard horse’s shape, friction, air resistance, and gravity
Oh cool, thanks for explaining! I guess the closest equivalent phrasing I’m used to would be “sounds good on paper” - or in Scotland (home for me) someone would probably reply with "Aye, and if my granny had wheels she’d be a bike.” 😂
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In conclusion, the physical properties of penguins constitute a suboptimal replacement for graphite moderation of neutron propogation in a nuclear reactor.
Further, tested penguins were largely non responsive to all different training approaches attempting to have them associate the verbal command “Scram!” with the desired behavior of promptly entering the reactor pool.
…of bird like material which can be represented by a mass average of bone and flesh. This can be used in bird strike simulations for studying aircraft windshield performance as compared to thawed penguins shot out of a pneumatic canon. (I actually went to a talk that discussed exactly this except you replace “penguin” with “bird” in general).
… how many linux users got mad?
Enough to create at least 5 different distros
The only thing missing is a period.
Ok, but let me see the the source code of the cylinder.
I always compared pinguins with a Klein Bottle
From the patent for pneumatic tubes delivery systems
My guess is that this is to do with penguin huddling and circle packing
(…) of uniform density in a neutral vacuum.
