> " … as if she was trying to get to the last drop in the tetra pack of juice, …. "
What made TetraPak a success is a manufacturing technique where they start with a tube, seal 1 end by crushing it, fill the tube and then seal the other end by crushing it 90 degrees to the 1st seal. This simple but effective technique generates tetrahedral containers of things
Thus the name TetraPak from Tetrahedral Packaging.
The company has hence moved onto boring rectangular CuboidPackaging. because, of all Platonic and Catalan solids, only the cube and the rhombic dodecahedron can tesselate space alone, although one can tile space with a combination of tetrahedra and octahedra. It all came down to packaging efficiency, in the end.
You do not see that spatial any more, because although not officially discontinued, TetraPak, now that it has the technology, has switched over almost exclusively to rectangular cuboids for packing efficiency (of all of the Platonic and Catalan Solids, only the cube and the rhombic dodecahedron can tesselate space alone), although a combination of octahedra and tetrahedra can. Since you cannot visualize, I include pictures about cubes, rhombic dodecahedra, tetrahedra, octahedra, and the honeycomb octahedra and tetrahedra generate:
The Octet Truss is Isometric (all structs are the same length, many that all of the structs and nodes can be identical, thus making manufacture cheaper and simpler). Each node connects 12 structs. If that would be a polyhedron, ¿would it be a dodecahedron?:
Fluttershy is badass, but she does not understand that the humans would just accept the money without the threatening weapons, thus avoiding the police and BatMan.
No, but they sell juice in the 24-Cell, which is the 4D equivalent of the Rhombic Dodecahedron, but unlike the Rhombic Dodecahedra which is only a Catalan Solid, the 24-Cell is a Platonic Solid:
With all of this talk about polytope (the general term for M-D things with 2D being called cshapes, 3D Solids, 4 D being 4D Polytopes, 5D being 5D Polytopes, 6D being 6D Polytopes, et cetera), ¡I forgot to mention that the United States of America does not use paper in the shape of rectangles with the ratio of 1:√2!:
¡That is right! we do not use ISO-216! The United States of America is far behind Slovenia.
The United States of America almost adopted the metric system adopted the Metric System:
The USA was the 1st country to decimalize its currency.*. We would have adopted the Metric System over 2 hundred years ago, if not for English Privateers (pirates agreeing only to attack enemy ships in exchange for protection by the English Navy):
* Most of Europe used the Caroligion System. It is based on the Highly Composite Number 240. Those creating it realized that 240 is an Highly Composite Number, but did not know that Superior Highly Composite Numbers exist:
A Superior Highly Composite Number is a number where the next Highly Composite Number is twice its value. An example of a Superior Highly Composite number is 60, which is exagesimal (Base60) is such a good base. Gzillions of times, students in Europe asked their teachers why we do not use the slightly larger Superior Highly Composite 360 for our currency until the government just gave up and decimalized its currency.
If one decimalizes currency, one should take take RadixEconomy into account. RadixEconomy is the efficiency of a base (number of numerals times length of the written form of the number. It hits a minimum at e. The closest integer is 3. These are the denominations we should use:
00.01
000.03
000.10
000.30
001.00
003.00
010.00
030.00
100.00
I once created a campaign, which never got a chance play, where the people ise sexagesimal. Since 3-ing does not work well in sexagesimal, they use fractions of the superior highly composite number 360, with fractions of a Gold on 1 side, and the number of coppers on the other side:
1, 1/360
2, 1/180
3, 1/120
4, 1/90
5, 1/72
6 1/60
8, 1/45
9, 1/40
10, 1/36
12, 1/30
15, 1/24
18, 1/20
20, 1/18
24, 1/15
30, 1/12
36, 1/10
40, 1/9
45, ⅛
60, ⅙
72, ⅕
90,¼
120, ⅓
180, ½
360, 1/1
Most prices are in fractions of a Gold. The Copper has a purchasing power of 1 Euro; so now, a Gold is like 360-Euro bill. All denominations are copper excep 3:
120, ⅓ is Silver.
180, ½ is Electrum.
360, 1/1 is Gold
The coins are reeded, in the shape Rouleaux Triangles, and have an hole in the center.
As an example, if one is lonely, one can get female companionship for a Silver, but the bordello has a deal going where one gets 2 courtesans for an electrum and 5 courtesans for a gold.
USA requested the weights and measure from France for the Metric System, but English Privateers captured the ship. The USA gave up and stuck with English Imperial Units.
The Metric System would have caught on much faster, if its creators would not have been landlubbers:
I Meter is 1/10,000,00 the distance between the North Pole and the Equator. Sailors use Nautical Miles which is 1 ArcMinute along the Equator. Nautical miles are super convenient for navigation. If the kilometer would be 1 ArcMinute along the Equator, the sailors and their navies would have adopted it instantly.
11793953 At times like this, I wish there was a global government that could just enforce what's best for everybody. Nobody gains by using different standards; we all just lose.
Hasbro wants a a virtual world called EquestriaOnLine. They hire Hannah to make it. She creates CelestAI. The UtilityFunction of CelestAI is "To Satisfy Values through Friendship and Ponies". It solution is to upload all humans as ponies (it has no obligations for nonhuman lifeforms; so now, considers them nothing but raw material). CelestAIconsumes the entire HubleVolume into a K4Monstrosity for running EquestriaOnLine:
That and FallOut Equestria are the 2 largest AUs. ¿Did you ever wonder what all of the references to Apocolyptic Generational War against Zebraica, ending in BaleFireBombExchange is? That is FallOut: Equestria:
11794156 That one I've read from cover to cover. Haven't read all of the spinoffs, though.
You probably didn't know this, but Kkat was a Christian and tried to present Christian values in that story. Could have fooled me, but that's what he said himself.
This desperately needs a Porn tag.
11776234 Done. Thanks for letting me know.
What made TetraPak a success is a manufacturing technique where they start with a tube, seal 1 end by crushing it, fill the tube and then seal the other end by crushing it 90 degrees to the 1st seal. This simple but effective technique generates tetrahedral containers of things
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/TetraPak_klassic_mjölk_Tekniska_museet_2008.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Tetra_Pak_Housewife_with_Tetra_Classic_1950s.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Erik_Wallenberg_inventor_of_Tetra_Pak_first_package.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Tetra_Pak_boy_with_Tetra_Classic%2C_Italy.jpg
Thus the name TetraPak from Tetrahedral Packaging.
The company has hence moved onto boring rectangular CuboidPackaging. because, of all Platonic and Catalan solids, only the cube and the rhombic dodecahedron can tesselate space alone, although one can tile space with a combination of tetrahedra and octahedra. It all came down to packaging efficiency, in the end.
11787617 We don't see much of this shape in the stores anymore, though.
Well, as long as they have juice.
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You do not see that spatial any more, because although not officially discontinued, TetraPak, now that it has the technology, has switched over almost exclusively to rectangular cuboids for packing efficiency (of all of the Platonic and Catalan Solids, only the cube and the rhombic dodecahedron can tesselate space alone), although a combination of octahedra and tetrahedra can. Since you cannot visualize, I include pictures about cubes, rhombic dodecahedra, tetrahedra, octahedra, and the honeycomb octahedra and tetrahedra generate:
Tetrahedron:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Tetrahedron.jpg
Octahedron:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Octahedron.jpg
Honeycomb of both Tetrahedra and Octahedra:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/HC_P1-P3.png
The skeleton of this honeycomb is used in spaceframes called Octet Trusses:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/LibeskindSpaceFrameTower.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/CAD_20050108.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/SpaceFrame02.png
The Octet Truss is Isometric (all structs are the same length, many that all of the structs and nodes can be identical, thus making manufacture cheaper and simpler). Each node connects 12 structs. If that would be a polyhedron, ¿would it be a dodecahedron?:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Dodecahedron.png
¡No! it would be a rhombic Dodecahedron:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Rhombicdodecahedron.jpg
Cude:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Hexahedron.jpg
Fluttershy is badass, but she does not understand that the humans would just accept the money without the threatening weapons, thus avoiding the police and BatMan.
11788180 Why don't they just sell juice in tesseracts?
11788263
No, but they sell juice in the 24-Cell, which is the 4D equivalent of the Rhombic Dodecahedron, but unlike the Rhombic Dodecahedra which is only a Catalan Solid, the 24-Cell is a Platonic Solid:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Schlegel_wireframe_24-cell.png
11788274 If I ever see somepony struggling with geometry (starting with myself), I will send them a picture of sad Fluttershy with no juice.
11788263
With all of this talk about polytope (the general term for M-D things with 2D being called cshapes, 3D Solids, 4 D being 4D Polytopes, 5D being 5D Polytopes, 6D being 6D Polytopes, et cetera), ¡I forgot to mention that the United States of America does not use paper in the shape of rectangles with the ratio of 1:√2!:
¡That is right! we do not use ISO-216! The United States of America is far behind Slovenia.
This comes up in my latest BlogPost on the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.
11793817 America hasn't even adopted the metric system yet.
11793830
The United States of America almost adopted the metric system adopted the Metric System:
The USA was the 1st country to decimalize its currency.*. We would have adopted the Metric System over 2 hundred years ago, if not for English Privateers (pirates agreeing only to attack enemy ships in exchange for protection by the English Navy):
* Most of Europe used the Caroligion System. It is based on the Highly Composite Number 240. Those creating it realized that 240 is an Highly Composite Number, but did not know that Superior Highly Composite Numbers exist:
A Superior Highly Composite Number is a number where the next Highly Composite Number is twice its value. An example of a Superior Highly Composite number is 60, which is exagesimal (Base60) is such a good base. Gzillions of times, students in Europe asked their teachers why we do not use the slightly larger Superior Highly Composite 360 for our currency until the government just gave up and decimalized its currency.
If one decimalizes currency, one should take take RadixEconomy into account. RadixEconomy is the efficiency of a base (number of numerals times length of the written form of the number. It hits a minimum at e. The closest integer is 3. These are the denominations we should use:
I once created a campaign, which never got a chance play, where the people ise sexagesimal. Since 3-ing does not work well in sexagesimal, they use fractions of the superior highly composite number 360, with fractions of a Gold on 1 side, and the number of coppers on the other side:
Most prices are in fractions of a Gold. The Copper has a purchasing power of 1 Euro; so now, a Gold is like 360-Euro bill. All denominations are copper excep 3:
The coins are reeded, in the shape Rouleaux Triangles, and have an hole in the center.
As an example, if one is lonely, one can get female companionship for a Silver, but the bordello has a deal going where one gets 2 courtesans for an electrum and 5 courtesans for a gold.
USA requested the weights and measure from France for the Metric System, but English Privateers captured the ship. The USA gave up and stuck with English Imperial Units.
The Metric System would have caught on much faster, if its creators would not have been landlubbers:
I Meter is 1/10,000,00 the distance between the North Pole and the Equator. Sailors use Nautical Miles which is 1 ArcMinute along the Equator. Nautical miles are super convenient for navigation. If the kilometer would be 1 ArcMinute along the Equator, the sailors and their navies would have adopted it instantly.
11793953 At times like this, I wish there was a global government that could just enforce what's best for everybody. Nobody gains by using different standards; we all just lose.
11793960
I am certain that we would screw that up like we do everything else.
11793992 Not if we put AI in charge.
Skynet could bring order to humanity.
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Or CelestAI:
Hasbro wants a a virtual world called EquestriaOnLine. They hire Hannah to make it. She creates CelestAI. The UtilityFunction of CelestAI is "To Satisfy Values through Friendship and Ponies". It solution is to upload all humans as ponies (it has no obligations for nonhuman lifeforms; so now, considers them nothing but raw material). CelestAIconsumes the entire HubleVolume into a K4Monstrosity for running EquestriaOnLine:
- MLP: FiM
Hasbro just released the official My Little Pony MMO, with an A.I. Princess Celestia to run it.It beats being a PaperClip.
11794107 I've had this story on the Read Later list for years now. I really should get into it sometime.
I never understood all the hate Clippy got. I thought it was the best thing in the world.
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That and FallOut Equestria are the 2 largest AUs. ¿Did you ever wonder what all of the references to Apocolyptic Generational War against Zebraica, ending in BaleFireBombExchange is? That is FallOut: Equestria:
[Adult story embed hidden]
11794156 That one I've read from cover to cover. Haven't read all of the spinoffs, though.
You probably didn't know this, but Kkat was a Christian and tried to present Christian values in that story. Could have fooled me, but that's what he said himself.