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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Zero. Then all the other measurements make sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Its an awkward position but it is possible

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

But how many feet are in a foof? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It makes sense if you interpret it as ≥6, which is probably what they meant anyways.

Edit: I'm pretty sure it also works in hyperbolic space

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"FIVE MINUTES. GIVE ME FIVE MINUTES."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

"I JUST WANT TO TALK TO THEM."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Just a simple tetrahedron of people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Approx. 8.5 feet for anyone curious

6√2 if anyone wants to be more specific

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Solve for feef.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

The world started with Greece m8

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

COVID played the long division game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I don' know wha you mean

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

You won't trick me into forming a 4 sided die, the most vile of shapes!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It works in three-dimensional space...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Look, lets be honest here, they'd be holding Neil back instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

But why are two physicists holding him back?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Implying flat Cartesian space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

🫵 Deutsche

[–] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I feef you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Tetrahedron of safety