zatojones - 2008-08-07
meh... I've seen rounder
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mouser - 2008-08-07 Yeah but this was created out of metal. Not McDonald's.
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Smellvin - 2008-08-07
Looks like these official standards of weights and measurements people don't have enough to do.
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HarrietTubmanPI - 2008-08-07
I thought it was rather neat.
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Xenocide - 2008-08-07
Obviously, the applications for this technology are near-infinite. Like for bowling. And for....league bowling.
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Desidiosus - 2008-08-07
Round silicon nodules have been done better before.
http://www.70disco.com/images/horta3.jpg
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waxeater - 2008-08-07
NERDS!
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Keefu - 2008-08-07
Who would have thought it would have been made by a bunch of squares?
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cognitivedissonance - 2008-08-07
So is this or is this not part of Fat Acceptance Week?
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Frank Rizzo - 2008-08-07
I didnt know science could be so boring
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Billie_J_Buttfuck - 2008-08-07
Science creates art.
Cool.
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vissarion - 2008-08-07
"The process of shaping the boule to form the first hemisphere began."
(still image of man whaling on boule with an iron mallet)
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RoyCastle - 2008-08-07
isn't it more grammatically correct to say the "most spherical" object ever?
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Cena_mark - 2008-08-07
Doesn't look any rounder than a bowling ball (before the holes get cut in.) These scientists fail.
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Binro the Heretic - 2008-08-07
Somewhere in the world, a wealthy fetishist is attempting to buy it...so he can shove it up his ass.
If they refuse his offer, he will hire a ninja to steal it.
Government agents will argue bitterly over who has to go steal it back.
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baleen - 2008-08-07
Wow, this is some boring ass science up over here.
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Merkwuerdigeliebe - 2008-08-07
This was absolutely necessary.
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takewithfood - 2008-08-07
Okay, so you made the world's roundest object. Now what?
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phalsebob - 2008-08-07
Now I need to compare it with the least round object in the world.
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Robin Kestrel - 2008-08-07
You know where the "zooming in on still photos" thing belongs? In the fucking opening credits of Soylent Green and NO PLACE ELSE.
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craptacular - 2008-08-07
Australia's National Measurement Institute.
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Udderdude - 2008-08-07
To: Enemies of science
From: Me
Message: Eat a bowl of dicks, kthx
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garcet71283 - 2008-08-07
Damn.
Now it have to put a dent in that thing.
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GravidWithHate - 2008-08-07
I think the idea is to make the kilogram equal to a standard number of silicon atoms, rather than being defined as equal to the weight some lump of metal in France. So they make a sphere so perfect they can calculate it's volume in atoms. Science.
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Syd Midnight - 2008-08-07
I was gonna say as soon as I saw the preview image, "That thing there is pretty fucking round."
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Hooker - 2008-08-07
"Now what do we do with it?"
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Caminante Nocturno - 2008-08-07
Due to a lab accident, one of those scientists is really ROUNDO, THE ROUNDEST MAN IN THE WORLD!
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Jeriko-1 - 2008-08-07
o/~ Cap-tain Alain Picard... o/~
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Mostly Pi - 2008-08-08
If only the most painfully virginal person in the world knew about thisand they'd have the attention of someone genuinely interested in the roundest object in the world!
But seriously, I kid the science because I know it can take it. Congrats on the giant Crossfire bullet, science.
(I know; someday I'm going to have to eat those words when I blow out a kneecap and have it replaced with technology based partly off the results of tests performed on this thing)
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voodoo_pork - 2008-08-08
I spent most of the mid-90's studying at the Institute for Materia Growth.
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Shion - 2008-08-08 If I had another five stars to give, they would be yours Mr. Pork.
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Lurchi - 2008-08-08
If you don't five star this you are square.
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Bruce182 - 2008-08-29
The Daleks are inside that sphere, watch out!
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danthedrummer - 2008-09-02
It's like, how much more round could this be? and the answer is none. None more round.
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jmags - 2009-10-06 Smell the sphere.
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atheistgirl - 2008-11-15
That was...intresting.
I would have rated it higher if the actual video had been less dull.
Plus, when that musical sting came in at the end I nearly crapped myself.
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kingofthenothing - 2009-02-04
"Great news, everyone! We have made the most round object in the world!"
"But what about the rest of the universe?"
"A-wha?"
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MrBuddy - 2009-03-23
I guess it all comes down to this: What were we expecting to see?
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Chalkdust - 2009-05-01
Sure, you say it's just a boring round thing now but wait until the Tall Man gets a hold of it.
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It'll still be a boring round thing, but it'll be a different kind of boring.
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fluffy - 2010-03-21
The Earth's surface is smooth enough that if you were to shrink it down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be within tolerance of the international billiards' league standards.
However, the very slight axial bulge due to centripetal force makes it too lopsided.
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