• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Now I wonder if it would be possible to engrave the complete works of William Shakespeare on an Iowa-class battleship’s 16 inch shell. Big bullet but that’s a lot of text.

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      6 months ago

      You could write that in the head of a pin with room to spare.

      In fact, the letters formed, an “S” and a “U” for Stanford University, are so small they could be used to print the 32-volume Encyclopedia Britannica 2,000 times and the contents would fit on the head of a pin.