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Old 04-01-2021, 03:59 PM
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Product Warning Label for Astronomy Equipment

The attached image was shared in an Engineering forum - I thought it might be appreciated here as well!
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Old 04-01-2021, 04:43 PM
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Yep, read Katie Mack's "the End OF Everything"
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Old 05-01-2021, 12:24 AM
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And similar to this well known "product warning".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydr...onoxide_parody
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Old 05-01-2021, 08:08 AM
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And similar to this well known "product warning".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydr...onoxide_parody
Thank you Buck, you’ve made my morning. That is VERY funny. And scary as well given how many people get caught out with these yarns.
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Old 05-01-2021, 09:23 AM
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Item 2... Newton would be crying:
1. no attribution &
2. they didn't get it quite right (should be inversely proportional to the square of the distance, but meh: close enough for comedy.

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Old 05-01-2021, 09:36 AM
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Pretty good.
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Old 05-01-2021, 09:27 PM
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Really good, thanks for that I personally like the 99.99999999% of free space one.
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