Spyke
onlookerreply
lemmy.ml

Zero. Then all the other measurements make sense.

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Huschkereply
lemmy.world

But then the two on the bottom would have to be inside one another.

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Kinky. But no, not necessarily. You could say that one of them is the actual person and the other "person" is just the first person's shadow. It's a stretch, but it's the best I've got.

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lemmy.world

That totally works, but only when Positionen on an appropriately sized sphere

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alpreply
lemmy.zip

So unless you are a flat earther, you cannot complain?

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I guess so, also it puts into perspective, how big a feef is. It would have to be 1/4 of the Earth's circumference. Or maybe they are standing on a smaller sphere.

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suppo.fi

The meme artist here is not thinking in enough dimensions. These constraints result in a tetrahedron. So you just need to stand in a triangle formation and have the last guy go in the center and float less than the average human height above ground.

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TheSladreply
sh.itjust.works

Damn i hate when some other pedant beats me to it in the comments!

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Stephen Hawking isn’t a pedant, he only went to Epstein’s island to get away from light pollution.

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lemm.ee

I think you're fine in just 3 dimensions. If the person to the upper left and lower right have a separate elevation from the other two, this is basically just the shape of a 4 sided die.

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lemmy.world

Well, that's not practical, but is physically possible, we just need someone moving on stilts and we are done

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But people exist only on Earth so what do you suggest? Earth being some spinning bouncy ball instead of a majestic plane?

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I never thought I'd need to remember that math equation. Little did I know I'd need it to answer a meme on Lemmy. 8.485.

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Everyone's saying that this works in 3 dimensional space, but this also works in 2 dimensional space such that each side could be at a minimum six feet. The resulting structure would be a rhombus and not a square, with the distance between two of the individuals being much greater than 6 feet, though, which the artist did not accurately represent.

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Wait so to maintain social distancing I need to perform a tire people rotation?

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sh.itjust.works

Dunno why Pythagoras would be mad, since the Pythagorean theorem was known for at least a thousand years before his time.

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lemmy.world

Great, you can't even correctly type a title for the image you stole. High effort

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Tjareply
programming.dev

I'm sure he'll get rich and famous with all the upvotes

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No, on the contrary, it cost me a lot of money paying 600 users for upvotes

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