Ah yes, the optimal packing of 16 Polands
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Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I suspect with some work we could even fit Poland 17 in there…
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If you put them too close to each other, Russia will try to invade. They’re drawn to it sorta like a magnetic Poland field. Once you have too many Poland’s, it’s best to play it safe.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 month ago
But how will Russia invade Poland without Nazi Germany there to help them??
Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 months ago
But 17, probably not.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 months ago
No, after that critical point, Poland would start to win.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Are you trying to create a radioactive super Poland!?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mathematics believes it is possible, they just have to work out the optimal packing.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
How do you sink a Polish battleship?
By placing the entire country of Poland into the Pacific Ocean while the Battleship is in drydock.
JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
We haven’t found the upper limit yet, but with more research funding we can get closer
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Scientific funding in a nutshell. Fuck me.
mmmm@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
There’s an old mexican comedy show where the teacher asks a student how many centimeters are in a meter - she answers something like “29. And there’s even room for more!”
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
El Chavo? Sounds like something the Chilindrina would say.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I like how they started to make a grid then just went “fuck it” lol
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 1 month ago
we need an algorithm that calculates the most effiicient way to pack polandsinto any object
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You try moving a Poland. It’s a stout country.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Isn’t the garbage island like the size of at least three Polands these days? At some point it’s going to accumulate enough organic debris to develop its own topsoil and eventually ecosystem.
apex32@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not really an island. There’s just more garbage there than elsewhere.
Despite the common public perception of the patch existing as giant islands of floating garbage, its low density (4 particles per cubic metre (3.1/yd3)) prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I was being hyperbolic and facetious.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
well make more trash then duderino
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i hear someone was doing something to make it smaller, which i’m not sure how i feel about because we’re going to need all the viable landmass we can get
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 month ago
In the purely speculative fiction mindset of “what if”, I am kinda fascinated by the idea that nature will eventually find a to deal with our hubris. We can make the planet uninhabitable for ourselves as we know ourselves and the other living beings we currently see living around us. Because we know this and are aware of the potential we should use that same awareness to lessen the impact, not just for ourselves but because there’s living being who can’t stop or lessen the impact of what we’re doing. But give the planet a few more hundred million years and on the off chance there’s still a hominid lineage kicking it, they won’t be Homo sapiens as we recognize them and while our plastics are unnatural, Mother Nature will eventually find a way to make due with what we’ve done or recycle it. That’s not nihilism or an excuse to not care/prevent, just the reality that we’re a brief moment in geologic time even if we’ve utterly fucked the current environment during our stay.
Kefla@hexbear.net 1 month ago
As far as I’m aware, the “garbage island” is really more like a really super fucking polluted region where there’s tons of garbage, not like a specific amalgam of trash that actually stays dry on top or anything
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I know. As I pointed out to someone else the comment was more tounge in cheek than literal. It isn’t really an “island”. But since making the joke I’ve come to find out my joke actually undersells the volume. The area of accumulated waste is 5x the size of Poland even though it’s not actually forming a landmass 😞
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Atlantic Ocean can hold 17 Polands. Therefore, the Atlantic Ocean is bigger.
Kraiden@piefed.social 2 months ago
Americans will use anything but metric
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 months ago
You see, Texas wouldn’t fit even once, because it’s twice the size of the earth. Europeans will never understand that.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
16!
It’s not wrong.
The Pacific Ocean is so vast in area it could hold 528 Polands.
The Pacific Ocean is also deep… Can we start stacking the Polands?
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 1 month ago
1 poland is 2500,8m tall fyi
Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Thanks. Useful information.
So since the mean depth of the Pacific’s around 4000m, that means, without squishing them, we cannot even fit two layers. If we flip the top layer upside down, we should manage to match the tallest bits with lower bits, and fit them beneath the ocean floor. … since that top one’s upside down now, and staying under sea level would be an arbitrary extra restriction I’d be imposing on myself, we can scrap that arbitrary restriction, and use that upturned flat cut underbelly to plonk a third ontop…
But that’s still not as many stacked as I thought.
The pacific’s tiny.
It can only hold about 1582 Polands.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
The airspace above it belongs to a nation, so it’s gotta be more
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
It can’t hold 16! Polands, you’re exaggerating
Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
*clicks fingers and points*
Not deep enough.
Right.
Should have known.
Poles.
Tall.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Those three Polands are conspiring against the other 13!
Jakylla@jlai.lu 2 months ago
And 13! is a lot of Polands
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
And this is why poland should be the standard unit of measurement.
DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like to bake and I use mostly weights for measuring. When I explain to people how it’s easier and faster, I will finish as a joke that I weigh in stones. Those that know how bad a unit of measure stones would be for baking laugh. I dont think it would work as well using “polands”.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Tell us where you’re from without telling us where you’re from
Routhinator@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Technically correct.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve often thought about Poland and the pacific ocean. I always considered you could fit 7 or 8 or 173 or even 9. But 16? That really is mind blowing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
yeah, but one of those polands is so vast it can hold texas
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Right where they belong
Hupf@feddit.org 2 months ago
!CartographyAnarchy@sh.itjust.works
Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Bigly if true
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where did you find the other 15?
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Thank you
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
something is wrong, i can see new zealand on this map
smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Ssssssssshhhh! We’re hiding!
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s a lot of kielbasa!
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Even a multicolor assortment of 16 Polands!
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well that’s not surprising.
There are only 2 poles, the north pole and the south pole.
How big can that country be?Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You get a multi buy discount if you purchase 16 Poland’s in one transaction
jlow@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Repost to Anything Bit Metric 😸
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Wow, the Pacific Ocean must be really wide, like, that’s gotta be longer than 2 football fields placed end to end.
Klear@piefed.world 2 months ago
Two? Double that number, then double it again…
morto@piefed.social 2 months ago
Be careful with exponentials!
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 months ago
So Six Football fields?