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zentiggr on Nov 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Stabilize a Wobbly Table (2007)

Old physics joke about using approximations to model a farming problem... "Start with a spherical cow in vacuum, ..."

twic on Nov 25, 2019 [–]

thfuran's comment extends the joke by inquiring how a cow might raise its head while being a perfect sphere.

zentiggr on Nov 26, 2019 | [–]

Gotcha - 'rearing their ugly heads'... I should slow down and think the thread through every now and then lol

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