Post #2539026 · Elektrine

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop In the spirit of keeping the physics simple I think the only reasonable option is for the cow to be evenly covered in pants of 50% thickness :dinobigbrain:

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@blausand@chaos.social 2026-05-14 19:42

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@Slyence@mastodo.neoliber.al 2026-05-14 20:25

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop cows live on farms people on farms wear coveralls

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@minego@pdx.social 2026-05-14 21:11

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop Assuming a spherical cow, you can just spin it around the center of mass until you can't remember the starting point. So, does it matter?

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@kev@mcr.wtf 2026-05-14 21:16

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop what troubles me about this is, if I imagine a cow, it's facing to the right. So one of these cows has pants on its head.

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@RIJim@mastodon.social 2026-05-14 21:19

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop I vote for 'like this.'

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@fds@mastodon.social 2026-05-14 21:19

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop Sideways feels more secure for staying up and they do kind of use their front legs as hands even if it’s quite limited, imo

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@schtaks@infosec.exchange 2026-05-14 21:20

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop I think it'd need two pairs of pants

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@taatm@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-14 21:23

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop @Gargron@mastodon.social The best answer I heard is the one on the right as the jeans 👖 cover its arse.

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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space 2026-05-14 21:24

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop The latter. The former is silly, can you imagine how long of a belt you'd need?

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@xgranade@wandering.shop 2026-05-14 21:25

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop symmetry-breaking pants

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@sortius@infosec.exchange 2026-05-14 21:25

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop the left is a hospital gown, the right is pants

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@Marrekoo@urbanists.social 2026-05-14 21:26

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop that is a civil engineering approach. We slways assume systems to be spherical. And add a safety factor of 1.3.

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@elala@nrw.social 2026-05-14 21:27

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop If it were a circle, it would either be rolling or lying flat. In the first case, it would be constantly changing, and in the second case, it would depend on your point of view.🤔 I hope that was helpful.😬🤣

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@skaverat@skaverat.net 2026-05-14 21:29

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop depends. Is friction and air resistance ignored?

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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-05-14 21:31

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop since a spherical cow has no legs and doesn't need pants with legs, i guess these would be briefs? :) or considering the color, blue-mers? ;)

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@jarjan@mederland.nl 2026-05-14 21:32

@troublewithwords@wandering.shop A swiss cow would alternate ever faster between the two, while rolling down the mountain... 🤣

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