• samus12345@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    He said all the information they’re gathering is faulty. It’s very easy for such a statement to be false. Only a Sith deals in absolutes!

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    5 days ago

    Of course the information gathered is faulty, they’re measuring 3mm changes with a tape measure

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      5 days ago

      My tape measure has millimeter divisions? In fact til 5cm (I think, might be 10. I’ll check tomorrow) it has 0.5 mm lines too.

      I mean I would use another tool probably, but if I only had my tape measure it would do unless the changes are smaller than like 0.25 mm.

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        5 days ago

        Oh mine too, but that doesn’t make it the right tool for the job.

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        3 days ago

        Agreed. For those not using metric, tape measures usually have 16ths of an inch which is 1.5 mm, and you can easily measure down to 32nds.

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        4 days ago

        I would trust it that far for flat, square pieces of metal; not for an irregular shape with a rounded tip, mounted to an irregular rounded surface. For this use I’d want a steel ruler at minimum.

        • wouldn’t it be even better to measure the force the nose pushes with? it’s easy to quantify and the apparatus could be a fixed mount on the head - hook it up to a raspberry pi which reads out a list of questions, records the answer and the nose output for further analysis!

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            4 days ago

            There are certainly a number of accurate measurement techniques. I simply mentioned my personal minimum.

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        5 days ago

        Only for a much looser definition of “very” than I seek in regards to the scientists asking the kinds of questions they are.

  • If Pinocchio believed what he said, even if it wasn’t factual reality, would his nose grow? What if he was an anti-vaxxer?

    “Pinocchio, do vaccines cause autism?”

    “Yes! Yes God damn it, and 5G melts your brain!”

    “His nose didn’t grow. It must be true!”