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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 
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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 83 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

I feef you.

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Zero. Then all the other measurements make sense.

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Its an awkward position but it is possible

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 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.

[–] Pirasp@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

🫵 Deutsche

[–] alp@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pirasp@lemmy.world 2 points 11 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.

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 44 points 11 months ago (1 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.

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] deadbeef@lemmy.nz 27 points 11 months ago

Solve for feef.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 28 points 11 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.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago

Just a simple tetrahedron of people.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Tetrahedron of safety

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Implying flat Cartesian space.

[–] temmink@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

But how many feet are in a foof? 🤔

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"FIVE MINUTES. GIVE ME FIVE MINUTES."

[–] nonagonOrc@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

"I JUST WANT TO TALK TO THEM."

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Approx. 8.5 feet for anyone curious

6√2 if anyone wants to be more specific

[–] anubis119@lemmy.world 9 points 11 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.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

It works in three-dimensional space...

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] thinkyfish@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

But why are two physicists holding him back?

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 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.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

COVID played the long division game.

[–] Rhapsodicink@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

The world started with Greece m8

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I don' know wha you mean