What’s the teapot a reference to?

Really? It seems like it’s 50/50 if I can even open a link I’ve searched up without it immediately demanding that I log in.

I did some quick maths and assuming a desk-top globe of 12 inches, and guessing that the spokes are a quarter of an inch (which is probably too small), then the diameter of a life-sized spoke would be at least 82 miles (132.5 km) wide.

Is this a copy-pasta I haven’t seen before or did you make this up?

I believe you are looking for hydrostatic equilibrium. There don’t seem to be good answers for this online, but according to Robert Black on this Quora post:

There isn’t a minimium per se but the generally accepted number for a mass to form into a sphere under its own gravity is 1/10,000th the mass of the Earth or 600 quintillion kg. As for size, it really depends on the composition of the body. The numbers are generally accepted to have a diameter of about 600km for a rocky body.

A quintillion is 1 x 10 to the 18th and Phobos has a mass of 1.0659 x 10 to the 16th kilograms and a diameter of 22 kilometers.

I guess I can see that, it is ridiculous. The difference is that this news comes across as completely believable to me instead of as skirting the line of believability like a “proper” post would do.

Too true…

Why is this on Not The Onion?

I assume they choose NYC in particular because its a three letter acronym that could sound like it would fit in with other three letter fighting organizations.

“In the first few days of the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Luftwaffe destroyed some 2,000 Soviet aircraft, most on the ground, at a loss of only 35 (of which 15 were non-combat-related).” Wiki. How did this happen if they weren’t caught off guard?

Pull and peel twizzlers are 10x’s better than regular twizzlers. I will not be taking any questions.

And who knows how many dead Russian soldiers don’t have a place in one of those graves.

I would assume he means speed in regards to catching malicious software and not speed of development, do you have a reason to think otherwise?

Umm, akshually, there would be a number of options to try first, depending on the circumstances:

• never get on in the first place
• the bathroom or the cockpit
• an emergency door
• threaten whoever is forcing you into this mess in the first place so that they hopefully put you to an even quicker end.

This meme is making these different disciplines answer questions they were never intended to answer. It’s like complaining that a school principal isn’t out there teaching students: that’s not their role and it would be silly to expect them to do otherwise.

Philosophers would ask something like, “what is a cat?”

Metaphysicians would ask something like, “how can we know that the cat truly exists?”

Theologians would ask something like, “what does the Bible say about cats?”

I’m a fellow man, but I assume the primary difference between our nipples and theirs is not sensitivity so much as it is that theirs will swing around and rub against things a lot more.

Sopuli.xyz/c/aneurysmposting comes close (sorry, can’t remember the proper formatting for sharing community links.)

It’s a leash that connects to the paddle board, but that was my first thought too.

I got that reference! Surprised to see it out in the wild.

They’re complaining that their admission of being wrong was getting downvoted, not about the main post.