Comment on [Thread] Mental Math

• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure there’s some actual science thing they’re referencing here, but I don’t understand it. Who can’t feel houses?

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Both a house and a golf ball are unbelievably tiny compared to the size of the Earth. The idea that you can shrink the Earth many thousands of times over and be able to feel a house parallels with our ability to feel micro imperfections on knife blades.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh! As in, should you be an outside observer, and grabbing the whole planet, you’d be able to feel houses on its surface if it were the size of a golf ball?

      Presumably you’d feel like crushing under your fingers like the hairs on a kiwi lol

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      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It would be a lot more smoother, smoother than a marble. But thoose detection of micro imperfections might be possible

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People without fingers, I guess

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• theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, you feel a house. Think of how many houses you could feel at once #shrinkearthtoagolfball

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