xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas
https://xkcd.com/2929/
We would have lost WWII without leaded gasoline. The bombers and
fighters both required 100+ octane gasoline which was only achievable
using massive quantities of tetra-ethyl lead in those days.
What about the processes of cracking longer hydrocarbon chains down to 8 >carbon chains?
Tony Nance wrote:
On 5/7/24 6:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas
Humorous as usual, but I'm having a hard time understanding why
Cutting Pizza In Squares is anywhere on this graph - to me, it seems
to be totally independent of the entire good/bad axes.
For some varities of pizza, cutting into squares is traditional. This
is especially true of ones that are rectangular, where cutting in any
other form would be rather difficult.
On 5/23/2024 4:25 AM, Kevrob wrote:
On 5/21/2024 11:24 PM, Default User wrote:
Tony Nance wrote:
On 5/7/24 6:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas
Humorous as usual, but I'm having a hard time understanding why
Cutting Pizza In Squares is anywhere on this graph - to me, it seems
to be totally independent of the entire good/bad axes.
For some varities of pizza, cutting into squares is traditional. This
is especially true of ones that are rectangular, where cutting in any
other form would be rather difficult.
Cutting into squares makes pizza _unfoldable_!
(Yes, I was born in NYC and raised out on Long Island.)
To expand on this, in NYC, pizza is considered street food.
You go into a parlor, buy a single (pie sliced) slice, and
fold it lengthways through the crust.
A good pizza slice will then have enough structural integrity
to be picked up with one hand from the crust end, and eaten
while walking.
This can't be done with square sliced pizza.
In article <v2qd35$2d01m$[email protected]>,
Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:
On 5/23/2024 4:25 AM, Kevrob wrote:What if the square pizza is reinforced with razor-sharp carbon
On 5/21/2024 11:24 PM, Default User wrote:
Tony Nance wrote:
On 5/7/24 6:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas
Humorous as usual, but I'm having a hard time understanding why
Cutting Pizza In Squares is anywhere on this graph - to me, it seems >>>>> to be totally independent of the entire good/bad axes.
For some varities of pizza, cutting into squares is traditional. This
is especially true of ones that are rectangular, where cutting in any
other form would be rather difficult.
Cutting into squares makes pizza _unfoldable_!
(Yes, I was born in NYC and raised out on Long Island.)
To expand on this, in NYC, pizza is considered street food.
You go into a parlor, buy a single (pie sliced) slice, and
fold it lengthways through the crust.
A good pizza slice will then have enough structural integrity
to be picked up with one hand from the crust end, and eaten
while walking.
This can't be done with square sliced pizza.
fiber?
On 25/05/24 04:23, James Nicoll wrote:
In article <v2qd35$2d01m$[email protected]>,
Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:
On 5/23/2024 4:25 AM, Kevrob wrote:What if the square pizza is reinforced with razor-sharp carbon
On 5/21/2024 11:24 PM, Default User wrote:
Tony Nance wrote:
On 5/7/24 6:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas
Humorous as usual, but I'm having a hard time understanding why
Cutting Pizza In Squares is anywhere on this graph - to me, it seems >>>>>> to be totally independent of the entire good/bad axes.
For some varities of pizza, cutting into squares is traditional. This >>>>> is especially true of ones that are rectangular, where cutting in any >>>>> other form would be rather difficult.
Cutting into squares makes pizza _unfoldable_!
(Yes, I was born in NYC and raised out on Long Island.)
To expand on this, in NYC, pizza is considered street food.
You go into a parlor, buy a single (pie sliced) slice, and
fold it lengthways through the crust.
A good pizza slice will then have enough structural integrity
to be picked up with one hand from the crust end, and eaten
while walking.
This can't be done with square sliced pizza.
fiber?
You don't walk so far.
On 5/24/2024 6:03 PM, Titus G wrote:
On 25/05/24 04:23, James Nicoll wrote:
In article <v2qd35$2d01m$[email protected]>,
Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:
On 5/23/2024 4:25 AM, Kevrob wrote:What if the square pizza is reinforced with razor-sharp carbon
On 5/21/2024 11:24 PM, Default User wrote:
Tony Nance wrote:
On 5/7/24 6:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas
Humorous as usual, but I'm having a hard time understanding why
Cutting Pizza In Squares is anywhere on this graph - to me, it seems >>>>>>> to be totally independent of the entire good/bad axes.
For some varities of pizza, cutting into squares is traditional. This >>>>>> is especially true of ones that are rectangular, where cutting in any >>>>>> other form would be rather difficult.
Cutting into squares makes pizza _unfoldable_!
(Yes, I was born in NYC and raised out on Long Island.)
To expand on this, in NYC, pizza is considered street food.
You go into a parlor, buy a single (pie sliced) slice, and
fold it lengthways through the crust.
A good pizza slice will then have enough structural integrity
to be picked up with one hand from the crust end, and eaten
while walking.
This can't be done with square sliced pizza.
fiber?
You don't walk so far.
I made a second rectangular pizza. It came out a bit better.
I cut it along one diagonal. Then I cut it across the
other diagonal. That resulted in 4 triangular pieces.
They were foldable.
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