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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That looks like applied statics to me.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's quite possibly the most useful application that textbook will ever be used for, statistically speaking.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Almost certainly

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is a 98% (p=±2%) that you might need glasses.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

From Wikipedia:

Statics is the branch of classical mechanicsthat is concerned with the analysis of force and torque acting on a physical system that does not experience an acceleration, but rather is in equilibrium with its environment.

So I reckon it was a pun

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd give it a 50% chance of bogging off under the weight.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Then it would by dynamics