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Baseballs do present a challenge to this theory, but I'm convinced we just haven't found the right seasoning.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago (3 children)

By the logic of this graph the Earth is slightly more tasty than the moon, yet the moon is made of cheese. Explain that, XKCD.

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 year ago

The earth contains bacon.

[–] match@pawb.social 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the earth contains sparse pockets of cheese, such as France. An entire celestial object of cheese would be overwhelming

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It has heterogeneity which is good according to prof ragusea

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

earth has over 10,000+ species of edible plants, and 300,000+ that we can't eat

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't eat, or can eat one time?

[–] notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

still, won't be tasty

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Hyperbolic" this, "logarithmic" that, I'm here to propose a radical new theory: all spheres are tasty, your mouth just isn't big enough to have the right tastebuds for the larger ones

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Smurfi@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Devourer of worlds for the uninitiated

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a fan of log-scale axes, Randall really ought to at least suspect that the vertical axis is also logarithmic. If so, the average 800m sphere is very much not tasty.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do we know the moon isn't tasty? Isn't it made of cheese?

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

If so, it's a very sharp cheese. Do not eat, you'll cut your tongue.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One can only predict that rabbit poop is delicious.

[–] jawa21@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dog seems to agree with this sentiment.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rabbits seem to enthusiastically agree as well

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have many rabbits near me. I also have many rabbit poops. I have never observed rabbits eating poop in the wild. Are your rabbits special?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rabbits have two kinds of poop: the hard little Cocoa Pebble looking ones and the soft glossy cluster-of-grapes looking ones. The former have been fully digested, the latter are designed to be eaten again to extract more nutrients.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to assume your are serious. that's disgusting. TIL. btw, are there any other animals you know of that do similar? do they always eat their shits or just when fresh food is scarce? I love that you used the word “designed”. what a glorious Lord that designed an animal and declared “you shall be gifted the ability to eat the same thing twice; second time not as nice”

It's always, it's a solution to the high-fiber low-nutrient herbivorous diet they have. Larger herbivores tend to have longer digestive tracts, rabbits use cecotropes. Designed was just shorthand for it being a regular function of their body and not some fluke of desperation.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Ice bergs. They are kinda round (less so with larger ones) and they are freshwater so entirely edible. According to the graph the object would taste "ok" which is a perfectly adequate description of drinking water.

[–] tominator@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I bet you could find 800-meter comet made out of ice. I would argue that the water tastes "ok".

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do not lick the space ice!

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

That is almost certainly the first thing I'd do to space ice

[–] ember@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's got to be an 800m wide jawbreaker

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By this logic, beachballs are okay-tasting.

I argue that the real equation would be some form of y= 1/x

[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on volume, a baseball would still be in between a grape and a melon, so y=1/x doesn't work either.

I'd go for a density based equation rather than volume.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Astute point. Single-point blackholes must be delicous

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

You'll never want to taste anything else, that's for sure

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Assuming taste is also logarithmic, it actually is y=1/x

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's your mom

So, James and the giant peach?

[–] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

I knew the Vegas Sphere was hiding something

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the fuck is with the scale here? How can you even fit meatballs in there if grapes and melons are that close?

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[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man....uhhh....you should get that checked out......

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I can't. I eat too many apples

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Where does the demon core belong on this

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Peppercorns?

Whole and spherical, not particularly tasty. Changing their shape via grinding, however, unlocks fought-wars-over-the-stuff levels of tastiness.

Please explain.

[–] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

They just have too much taste condensed into a tiny sphere, like mass in a white dwarf star. Grinding them down actually extends their surface area and if you were to toss the ground pepper in the air you'd create a haze of taste that may or may not cause a burning sensation in your eyes and respiratory system

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

You have me considering the flavor of Alderaan

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In their base form they're an outlier. Ground up you unlock the full potential of the smallest spheres on the graph.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You gotta grind them into smaller, tastier spheres

[–] Hunex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your mom!

^sorry, ^you ^know ^I ^had ^to

[–] machinin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm, rabbit turds...

[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

We don't know if the earth isn't actually tasty, maybe the sum of all the tasty parts outweighs the taste of molten rock and dirt

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