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• DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow, the Pacific Ocean must be really wide, like, that’s gotta be longer than 2 football fields placed end to end.

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  • Klear@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Two? Double that number, then double it again…

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    • morto@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Be careful with exponentials!

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    • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So Six Football fields?

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• rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah yes, the optimal packing of 16 Polands

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I suspect with some work we could even fit Poland 17 in there…

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  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But how will Russia invade Poland without Nazi Germany there to help them??

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But 17, probably not.

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, after that critical point, Poland would start to win.

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  • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you trying to create a radioactive super Poland!?

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mathematics believes it is possible, they just have to work out the optimal packing.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We haven’t found the upper limit yet, but with more research funding we can get closer

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  • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scientific funding in a nutshell. Fuck me.

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• mmmm@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!”

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    El Chavo? Sounds like something the Chilindrina would say.

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like how they started to make a grid then just went “fuck it” lol

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you think that’s bad, wait until they try to fit 17!

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      we need an algorithm that calculates the most effiicient way to pack polandsinto any object

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  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You try moving a Poland. It’s a stout country.

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• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • apex32@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

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    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was being hyperbolic and facetious.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      well make more trash then duderino

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Kefla@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 😞

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• ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Atlantic Ocean can hold 17 Polands. Therefore, the Atlantic Ocean is bigger.

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• Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Americans will use anything but metric

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You see, Texas wouldn’t fit even once, because it’s twice the size of the earth. Europeans will never understand that.

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• Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1 poland is 2500,8m tall fyi

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    • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The airspace above it belongs to a nation, so it’s gotta be more

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It can’t hold 16! Polands, you’re exaggerating

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    • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      *clicks fingers and points*

      Not deep enough.

      Right.

      Should have known.

      Poles.

      Tall.

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those three Polands are conspiring against the other 13!

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  • Jakylla@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And 13! is a lot of Polands

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• theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And this is why poland should be the standard unit of measurement.

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  • DredPyr8Roberts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tell us where you’re from without telling us where you’re from

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• Routhinator@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Technically correct.

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• nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  yeah, but one of those polands is so vast it can hold texas

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• jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Right where they belong

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• Hupf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  !CartographyAnarchy@sh.itjust.works

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bigly if true

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• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where did you find the other 15?

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• Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thank you

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• rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  something is wrong, i can see new zealand on this map

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ssssssssshhhh! We’re hiding!

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• MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a lot of kielbasa!

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even a multicolor assortment of 16 Polands!

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• Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well that’s not surprising.
  There are only 2 poles, the north pole and the south pole.
  How big can that country be?

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You get a multi buy discount if you purchase 16 Poland’s in one transaction

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• jlow@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Repost to Anything Bit Metric 😸

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