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how do you slice it?? (mander.xyz)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

And is it half the volume, mass or a dimension? Because I've never tried neither blending or carrying a giraffe before (I never got invited to those parties in uni) so I have no grasp on volume or mass.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Surely a giraffe is nearly uniform density making the distinction between volume and mass irrelevant

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Even if it is not if you are just looking at the toal volume or mass it makes no difference when you halve it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It kind of does if you half the volume. If you end up with the hypothetical gas filled half of a giraffe then it's less mass than if you end up with the meat filled half.

    Unless you were only trying to convey volume to begin with then yes it doesn't make a difference.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Which part of the giraffe is filled with gas though?.

    Are we talking about a cube that is drawn around the giraffe for it's volume or are we talking about the volume of the giraffe if you submerge it in wter and measure the displaced volume?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    No part, thats why I said hypothetical. But it's the only way to make sense of the claim that volume Vs mass is an issue.

    Hopefully we're not imagining halving the bounding box around the giraffe including the air

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