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Could be a coincidence. Only way we’re going to know is if we occupy Winnipeg.
For at least 5 months of the year no one wants to occupy Winnipeg. That value increases slightly for the other 7 months.
Be nice to Canada, they have the worst neighbors
Fucking Alaskans, man.
to think of that, this is one of the cases when basic math knowledge is important/useful outside engineering, finance, or anything that is stereotypically use math.
The next one will be in the Arctic.
Also didn’t know we were calling this the UWU shooting.
I’ve got one labeled “Mormon School Shooter” and the other “Mormon Church Shooter”
co-linear points can also be on a circumference, if you don’t mind infinite radius
I was about to ask whether you can have three colinear points on a sphere, but then I remembered that the Earth is flat.
Which brings me to another question. What does a circle on a Mercator projection looks like on a sphere?
It’s still a circle but all the corners add up to 365°, and their where we get the days from.
You can test this at home. Draw a circle on a paper, wrap it around a ball.
If you want the edge cases, draw the circle on a sheet of rubber (or maybe a plastic bag?) and stretch it over a ball.
Non-euclidean planes say what?
Seem pretty cut and dried to me. Time to bomb Winnipeg!
Even as satire, the worst part is seeing Kirk being treated like he’s anywhere near as important as the Kennedy and Lincoln assassinations.
I never thought about it, but now I’m gonna have some fun with this.
NSFW (never safe from Winnipeg)
Yeah, clearly they are up to something. Pretty long term planning going on up there.
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Don’t take all this stuff too seriously, most of it is either performative content revenue farming or manipulation of public opinion by some actor. This ticks all boxes, could be anything; a person honestly that dense or deep into conspiracy theories isn’t even the most likely one. Unfortunately neither is satire.
look at the body of the post
In my defense, it was 3 AM.
Shit I’m stupid.
We’ll just forget about William McKinley because Buffalo doesn’t fit into our perfect circle
If he did, he wouldn’t be able to use circumcircle theorem.
What’s crazy is that this does fool people despite them drawing circles many times around triangles in their math class.
Wasn’t that in elementary or middle school?
Fact checking satire makes for even better satire.
Guys, I went to the center of the circle, and there was a completely normal looking tree there. Maybe too normal. What could it mean?
We need to dig deeper and get to the root of this.
If you start digging there and go all the way to the other side, you will end up in China! Check mate libtards. /s
I dug it up, and found some bugs, worms and roots. Some kind of code?
Guys, look at this mushroom! All these little frills!
What were we doing?
Put that down that’s a deep state mushroom!
The mushrooms are safe from intervention, for there is no government above the Council of Fungi. They are the real Illuminati, spread across the world beneath our feet. A collective unconscious with a singular, defiant will.
I knew it! The libs bugged our phones to infect us with their brain worm! Smash your phone and chuck it in a lake!
NO That’s probably a deep state lake
I can’t beleave you made that pun
Ceenote is branching out into comedy.
I connected the three trees at the middle and they made a triangle!!! How deep does this thing go?’
A triangle? Oh no…
hey stop spying at me through my moneys
Why is nobody mentioning that any point you choose just happens to be in an EXACT STRAIGHT LINE from the others!? And this just happened by chance? I’ve got some ocean-front property in Arizona I’d love to sell you.
I got in trouble in my friend group meme chat for drawing a Star of David connecting the points in this meme
That’s almost the plot of the rdj Sherlock Holmes movie. Just, you know, different star.
Readers added more context: Any three unique points on a sphere form a circle.
There always exists a circle such that, given any three non-colinear unique points in 3-space, all three points lie on the border of that circle. Spherical geometry is not required.
No, three unique points in 3d space that are colinear will not form a circle.
Thank you! Edited.
But now you’re just repeating the post lol
A fair point. The important part is the last bit, which points out that spherical geometry is not a requirement for it to hold, which is the only reason I replied to you in the first place
I wonder what size the circle would be if you took in to account the earth’s curvature.
Are there any map projections that allow for accurate projection of circles across arbitrary points?
That theorem only applies 2d from my understanding
I think it should still be possible to define a perfect circle from 3 points on a globe, tho
Imagine the 3 points on the globe defining a plane, and then just intersecting the globe by that plane, you’d have a perfect circle on a sphere that still goes through the original 3 points if I’m visualizing this in my head correctly, might try this in blender or something
Stereographic projection is the one (and only) thatballows that. You can draw any circle (or a straight line) on a stereographic map and it will remain a circle on the globe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereographic_map_projection#Properties
If you drew in on a globe, it would look deformed in this projection. I think the radius wouldn’t change, but it would look “wider” towards the north
All map projections are arbitrary. The only way to do this is on a globe.
Different projections preserve different properties. From memory there are ones that leave circles circular, so would allow this.
Edit: It’s stereographic projection that maps circles to circles.
Looking at the stereographic projection, there is a longer distance between points the father you get from the center of the map. Although the latitude lines remain circular in a polar projection, the map scales to avoid distortion father from the constant growth of the map once you leave the projected hemisphere. The northern hemisphere in an artic projection still must distort, making geometry a mess.
Goode homolosine projection is closer to keeping that distortion down, but all maps are an estimate due to the way a 3d curve is translated to a flat surface.
All that said, and I know I’m being pedantic, you could come really close by calculating the center of the circle in a sphere, then projecting the map stereographically from the center. That specific projection would come the closest, given the irregular shape of the Earth.
