TWG CXVII: The Lantern Keeper Redux Postgame

[A# Minor]

Also. I was driving around the other day... and look what I found.

I FOUND THE STRANGE MAN


(just act like there's a spoiler tag with an image here, okay?)

...

oooooof XDDDD


wait, now I have that guy's house number

[SpecsFlyer17]

...

oooooof XDDDD


wait, now I have that guy's house number

Yeah. Strange Man lives at 27A

[A# Minor]

Yeah. Strange Man lives at 27A

note to self: NEVER buy a house with the number 27A

[Oricorio]

Please confirm if the earth is flat or not.

Unless that's what they teach in grad school.

Trade secret :p

[The Musical Poet]

Trade secret :p

what? it is a suspiciously classified government file or something?

[Oricorio]

what? it is a suspiciously classified government file or something?

Get a B.S. if you want to find out! :p

[A# Minor]

uh... don't we all know that the earth is round?


edit: *spherical

[The Musical Poet]

nah it's ellipsoidal

[A# Minor]

sAmE tHiNg


jk lol, don't deform the shape of the earth plz kthx

[Oricorio]

sAmE tHiNg


jk lol, don't deform the shape of the earth plz kthx

We're an "irregularly shaped ellipsoid", but that really is an oversimplification due to all the mountains, valleys, plateaus, trenches, meteor impacts, etc. Suffice to say "it's complicated"

[A# Minor]

We're an "irregularly shaped ellipsoid", but that really is an oversimplification due to all the mountains, valleys, plateaus, trenches, meteor impacts, etc. Suffice to say "it's complicated"

yeah


I guess the earth is... its own shape

[The Musical Poet]

it's an infinitely-sided shape, since the amount changes consistently.

[Oricorio]

it's an infinitely-sided shape, since the amount changes consistently.

That can be clearly evidenced just by sand. Ever heard of the fractal problem?

[The Musical Poet]

No, I haven't, mind explaining? It sounds rather intruging.

[Oricorio]

No, I haven't, mind explaining? It sounds rather intruging.

A fractal is basically a shape that looks more complicated the more you zoom in on it (like a grain of sand, for instance). It causes problems when measuring them. Most famously, coastlines can be considered fractals, as you see more curves in them the more you zoom in on Google Maps, and eventually you'll get to the point where they are defined by the aforementioned grains of sand. This makes coastlines difficult to objectively measure; for instance if you measure them in increments of 100 meters, you will get a different result than if you measure in increments of ten meters, as the latter will better represent the curves and will actually give a longer result. So as you get to smaller and smaller increments of measure, the result for the length of the coastline will get longer and longer, and as this keeps going on with no clear point of convergence some would argue that coastlines are infinitely long

If you've ever wondered why Norway's coastline is considered to be longer than Russia's, the fractal problem is a big reason why