Science that makes you cringe

[Pingu]

Science or math?
[the object] has a footprint of half a cubic metre.

It's the mice from Hitchhikers', innit.

[Mr Larrington]

“[…] they're a pretty nasty heathen lot up there who should just be smashed and done in, and would be, too, if anyone could work out a way of firing missiles at right angles to reality“

[Pickled Onion]

"Why you shouldn't truncate the Y axis"

https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1616951506493931520?s=20&t=djkHPPcqjvR-dLTcjbcf6g

 

No, the problem there is truncating the Y axis but not truncating the trunks (or the legs). It's perfectly possible to truncate an axis and convey information clearly, but it's rarely possible to do so when you send contradictory signals at the same time, as they've done by showing whole figures with partial axes.

The source website has been shamed into changing the graphic, but now the men are floating 10cm above the ground:

[drossall]

Yes, but this is about relative heights. As long as they all jump at the same time, we'll get the picture

[Pickled Onion]

Yes, but this is about relative heights. As long as they all jump at the same time, we'll get the picture

Well yes and no 

The guy on the left has 6'0" tattooed on the back of his head, but the ruler next to him clearly says he's only 5'6"

[hatler]

5' 8"

[Jurek]

 

[Pickled Onion]

oh yeah that  f'in USAnian units.

[perpetual dan]

So humans can all jump to the same height, as leg shorter length is balanced out by smaller bodies? That’s an interesting bit of science.

[ian]

They're basically all wearing 4-inch heels or lifts à la Macron.

[Kim]

So humans can all jump to the same height, as leg shorter length is balanced out by smaller bodies? That’s an interesting bit of science.

Science A-level, presumably.  On results day.

[cygnet]

What sport/exercise excessively develops calves and forearms?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Leapfrog?

[Jurek]

What sport/exercise excessively develops calves and forearms?

Badminton should do both.
Although I'm not sure about excessively.

[T42]

Sumo, which develops everything excessively.

[mrcharly-YHT]

The beeb . . .

People inside are kept safe by the pressure inside the vessel.

But if there were a rupture to the structure, the pressure outside would be much greater, compressing the vessel.

wtf?

[rafletcher]

The beeb . . .

People inside are kept safe by the pressure inside the vessel.

But if there were a rupture to the structure, the pressure outside would be much greater, compressing the vessel.

wtf?

Written by the usual child I expect.

[pumpkin]

That carbon fibre attached to titanium is a good idea based on as opposed to the tried and tested all titanium spherical construction

[JonBuoy]

That carbon fibre attached to titanium is a good idea based on as opposed to the tried and tested all titanium spherical construction

You sound like an uninspirational fifty year old white guy

[mrcharly-YHT]

That carbon fibre attached to titanium is a good idea based on as opposed to the tried and tested all titanium spherical construction

And using a cylinder instead of a sphere

[spesh]

That carbon fibre attached to titanium is a good idea based on as opposed to the tried and tested all titanium spherical construction

And using a cylinder instead of a sphere

Not so much "SCIENCE! that makes you cringe", more "SCIENCE! that makes you ask what the everloving, bleeding blue utter suffering **** the designer thought they were doing".

[chrisbainbridge]

That carbon fibre attached to titanium is a good idea based on as opposed to the tried and tested all titanium spherical construction

And using a cylinder instead of a sphere

Not so much "SCIENCE! that makes you cringe", more "SCIENCE! that makes you ask what the everloving, bleeding blue utter suffering **** the designer thought they were doing".

I think anybody who has seen the result of a broken carbon bike frame would have been able to tell them it was a stupid idea. 

[Feanor]

I think anybody who has seen the result of a broken carbon bike frame would have been able to tell them it was a stupid idea.

Absolutely.
Experience with bike frames indicates titanium as the solution, all the way down. ;-)

[Tim Hall]

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[Mr Larrington]

Two states: on (voles) and off (no voles).  Binary = digital as any fule kno.