Talk:2513: Saturn Hexagon - Revision history

MeZimm at 17:01, 7 March 2025

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IMSoP: yeah, I've gone ahead and deleted that

2021-09-11T13:34:30Z

yeah, I've gone ahead and deleted that

172.69.34.87 at 23:06, 10 September 2021

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108.162.221.95 at 20:18, 10 September 2021

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172.69.71.67 at 20:17, 10 September 2021

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172.69.71.61 at 20:13, 10 September 2021

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162.158.155.205 at 09:03, 10 September 2021

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Kynde at 08:27, 10 September 2021

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Kynde at 08:26, 10 September 2021

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172.70.82.53 at 17:10, 9 September 2021

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 No. No, it could not have be used to mean that, because that's '''completely absurd.''' Does ''anyone'' here ''actually'' think that BSBIT was intended this way? Even if you were the person who ''invented'' the "Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology," I guarantee you would not have interpreted Randall to have been using this particular abbreviation in this incredibly contrived and obscure way. As far as I'm concerned, it is 100% certain that "BSBIT" refers to "Big Soccer Ball In There" and absolutely nothing else. The idea that we need to find alternate interpretations of everything, no matter how unlikely it is that ''anyone'' will see them that way, and present them as equally plausible as what ''everyone knows'' is the intended interpretation, is getting ridiculous.
 My guess is that someone plugged "BSBIT" into an acronym finder, found this particular acronym, and decided to put it in - possibly thinking it was actually helpful, or possibly just for grins.
-And sure, maybe we can have something in a separate "trivia" section, but in my view, it's just silly to put it in the main explanation. mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.61|172.69.71.61]] 20:13, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
+And sure, maybe we can have something in a separate "trivia" section, but in my view, it's just silly to put it in the main explanation. [[User:MeZimm|MeZimm]] ([[User talk:MeZimm|talk]]) 20:13, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
 The paragraph beginning “The UK is a partial holdout...” is long, and while presumably factual, to my mind the entire paragraph is completely irrelevant to the comic, and should thus be completely deleted. But I’ll let someone else make the final decision on that. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.87|172.69.34.87]] 23:06, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
 :Agreed, the whole thing was a long and unnecessary digression - the joke Randall is making has nothing to do with the (rapidly declining) use of "Imperial" units in the UK, and everything to do with the (very much current) use of "customary" units in the US. I've trimmed out most of that paragraph, and left in a brief observation that both the units used in the US and the word "soccer" were originally imported from the UK. - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] ([[User talk:IMSoP|talk]]) 13:34, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

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	The paragraph beginning “The UK is a partial holdout...” is long, and while presumably factual, to my mind the entire paragraph is completely irrelevant to the comic, and should thus be completely deleted. But I’ll let someone else make the final decision on that. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.87\|172.69.34.87]] 23:06, 10 September 2021 (UTC)		The paragraph beginning “The UK is a partial holdout...” is long, and while presumably factual, to my mind the entire paragraph is completely irrelevant to the comic, and should thus be completely deleted. But I’ll let someone else make the final decision on that. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.87\|172.69.34.87]] 23:06, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
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		+	:Agreed, the whole thing was a long and unnecessary digression - the joke Randall is making has nothing to do with the (rapidly declining) use of "Imperial" units in the UK, and everything to do with the (very much current) use of "customary" units in the US. I've trimmed out most of that paragraph, and left in a brief observation that both the units used in the US and the word "soccer" were originally imported from the UK. - [[User:IMSoP\|IMSoP]] ([[User talk:IMSoP\|talk]]) 13:34, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

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	My guess is that someone plugged "BSBIT" into an acronym finder, found this particular acronym, and decided to put it in - possibly thinking it was actually helpful, or possibly just for grins.		My guess is that someone plugged "BSBIT" into an acronym finder, found this particular acronym, and decided to put it in - possibly thinking it was actually helpful, or possibly just for grins.
	And sure, maybe we can have something in a separate "trivia" section, but in my view, it's just silly to put it in the main explanation. mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.61\|172.69.71.61]] 20:13, 10 September 2021 (UTC)		And sure, maybe we can have something in a separate "trivia" section, but in my view, it's just silly to put it in the main explanation. mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.61\|172.69.71.61]] 20:13, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
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		+	The paragraph beginning “The UK is a partial holdout...” is long, and while presumably factual, to my mind the entire paragraph is completely irrelevant to the comic, and should thus be completely deleted. But I’ll let someone else make the final decision on that. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.87\|172.69.34.87]] 23:06, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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 No. No, it could not have be used to mean that, because that's '''completely absurd.''' Does ''anyone'' here ''actually'' think that BSBIT was intended this way? Even if you were the person who ''invented'' the "Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology," I guarantee you would not have interpreted Randall to have been using this particular abbreviation in this incredibly contrived and obscure way. As far as I'm concerned, it is 100% certain that "BSBIT" refers to "Big Soccer Ball In There" and absolutely nothing else. The idea that we need to find alternate interpretations of everything, no matter how unlikely it is that ''anyone'' will see them that way, and present them as equally plausible as what ''everyone knows'' is the intended interpretation, is getting ridiculous.
-My guess is that someone plugged "BSBIT" into an acronym finder, found this particular acronym, and decided to plug it in - possibly thinking it was actually helpful, or possibly just for grins.
+My guess is that someone plugged "BSBIT" into an acronym finder, found this particular acronym, and decided to put it in - possibly thinking it was actually helpful, or possibly just for grins.
-And sure, maybe we can have something in a seperate "trivia" section, but in my view, it's just silly to put it in the main explanation. mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.61|172.69.71.61]] 20:13, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
+And sure, maybe we can have something in a separate "trivia" section, but in my view, it's just silly to put it in the main explanation. mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.61|172.69.71.61]] 20:13, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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 '' //However, BSBIT also stands for Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology [2], a relatively new specialization where business majors learn programming techniques [3], so the acronym could also have been used to imply that a graduate of this major came up with the soccer ball model listed in the presentation.//''
-No. No, it could not have be used to mean that, because that's '''completely absurd.''' Does ''anyone'' here ''actually'' think that BSBIT was intended this way? Even if you were the person who ''invented'' the "Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology," I guarantee you would not have interpreted Randall to have been using this particular abbreviation in this incredibly obscure way. As far as I'm concerned, it is 100% certain that "BSBIT" refers to "Big Soccer Ball In There" and absolutely nothing else. The idea that we need to find alternate interpretations of everything, no matter how unlikely it is that ''anyone'' will see them that way, and present them as equally plausible as what ''everyone knows'' is the intended interpretation, is getting ridiculous.
+No. No, it could not have be used to mean that, because that's '''completely absurd.''' Does ''anyone'' here ''actually'' think that BSBIT was intended this way? Even if you were the person who ''invented'' the "Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology," I guarantee you would not have interpreted Randall to have been using this particular abbreviation in this incredibly contrived and obscure way. As far as I'm concerned, it is 100% certain that "BSBIT" refers to "Big Soccer Ball In There" and absolutely nothing else. The idea that we need to find alternate interpretations of everything, no matter how unlikely it is that ''anyone'' will see them that way, and present them as equally plausible as what ''everyone knows'' is the intended interpretation, is getting ridiculous.
 My guess is that someone plugged "BSBIT" into an acronym finder, found this particular acronym, and decided to plug it in - possibly thinking it was actually helpful, or possibly just for grins.
 And sure, maybe we can have something in a seperate "trivia" section, but in my view, it's just silly to put it in the main explanation. mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.61|172.69.71.61]] 20:13, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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	:...seriously, there ''could'' be more depth to the Magic 8-Ball bit, but the rest of the non-ballgame/metric stuff just mostly writes what the comic says. Unless someone has something to say about what might (or might not) be in the depths of Saturn, IRL, e.g. the core, and how it/Jupiter became the way they did. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.137\|172.70.134.137]] 13:20, 9 September 2021 (UTC)		:...seriously, there ''could'' be more depth to the Magic 8-Ball bit, but the rest of the non-ballgame/metric stuff just mostly writes what the comic says. Unless someone has something to say about what might (or might not) be in the depths of Saturn, IRL, e.g. the core, and how it/Jupiter became the way they did. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.137\|172.70.134.137]] 13:20, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
	:::We could always move it to a trivia section --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.82.53\|172.70.82.53]] 17:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)		:::We could always move it to a trivia section --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.82.53\|172.70.82.53]] 17:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
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		+	'' //However, BSBIT also stands for Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology [2], a relatively new specialization where business majors learn programming techniques [3], so the acronym could also have been used to imply that a graduate of this major came up with the soccer ball model listed in the presentation.//''
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		+	No. No, it could not have be used to mean that, because that's '''completely absurd.''' Does ''anyone'' here ''actually'' think that BSBIT was intended this way? Even if you were the person who ''invented'' the "Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology," I guarantee you would not have interpreted Randall to have been using this particular abbreviation in this incredibly obscure way. As far as I'm concerned, it is 100% certain that "BSBIT" refers to "Big Soccer Ball In There" and absolutely nothing else. The idea that we need to find alternate interpretations of everything, no matter how unlikely it is that ''anyone'' will see them that way, and present them as equally plausible as what ''everyone knows'' is the intended interpretation, is getting ridiculous.
		+	My guess is that someone plugged "BSBIT" into an acronym finder, found this particular acronym, and decided to plug it in - possibly thinking it was actually helpful, or possibly just for grins.
		+	And sure, maybe we can have something in a seperate "trivia" section, but in my view, it's just silly to put it in the main explanation. mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.61\|172.69.71.61]] 20:13, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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 ::I suspect the lack of a merge opportunity has something to do with the fact that the page was blank before the two edits, although I can't say that with any definitive expertise. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 14:23, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 :::Maybe, because usually I get an opportunity to review my text compared with the new. And thus do not loose what I just wrote. So could be if the page was completely blank? Or just a browser issue? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 08:26, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
 So soccer balls appear in the very tiny ({{w|Fullerenes}}) and the very large, as noted here.  I wonder if there is a relation, or if the chemists and astronomers are referencing the same group of sports-enthusiast mathematicians. [[User:Nutster|Nutster]] ([[User talk:Nutster|talk]]) 03:20, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
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 I find it oddly amusing that soccer vs football discussion takes up most of the description, much more than actual explanation. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.10.29|172.68.10.29]] 12:18, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 :Oh, it's probably not a matter of life and death. It's much more important than that! (Wait until someone brings up Rugby League and Rugby Union, and which distinction is better. - Though of course both are much more dynamic than the stateside 'handegg' where everyone is slowed down by padding and frequent stoppages. ;P )
-::...seriously, there ''could'' be more depth to the Magic 8-Ball bit, but the rest of the non-ballgame/metric stuff just mostly writes what the comic says. Unless someone has something to say about what might (or might not) be in the depths of Saturn, IRL, e.g. the core, and how it/Jupiter became the way they did. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.137|172.70.134.137]] 13:20, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
+:...seriously, there ''could'' be more depth to the Magic 8-Ball bit, but the rest of the non-ballgame/metric stuff just mostly writes what the comic says. Unless someone has something to say about what might (or might not) be in the depths of Saturn, IRL, e.g. the core, and how it/Jupiter became the way they did. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.137|172.70.134.137]] 13:20, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 :::We could always move it to a trivia section --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.82.53|172.70.82.53]] 17:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

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	:Oh, it's probably not a matter of life and death. It's much more important than that! (Wait until someone brings up Rugby League and Rugby Union, and which distinction is better. - Though of course both are much more dynamic than the stateside 'handegg' where everyone is slowed down by padding and frequent stoppages. ;P )		:Oh, it's probably not a matter of life and death. It's much more important than that! (Wait until someone brings up Rugby League and Rugby Union, and which distinction is better. - Though of course both are much more dynamic than the stateside 'handegg' where everyone is slowed down by padding and frequent stoppages. ;P )
	:...seriously, there ''could'' be more depth to the Magic 8-Ball bit, but the rest of the non-ballgame/metric stuff just mostly writes what the comic says. Unless someone has something to say about what might (or might not) be in the depths of Saturn, IRL, e.g. the core, and how it/Jupiter became the way they did. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.137\|172.70.134.137]] 13:20, 9 September 2021 (UTC)		:...seriously, there ''could'' be more depth to the Magic 8-Ball bit, but the rest of the non-ballgame/metric stuff just mostly writes what the comic says. Unless someone has something to say about what might (or might not) be in the depths of Saturn, IRL, e.g. the core, and how it/Jupiter became the way they did. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.137\|172.70.134.137]] 13:20, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
		+	:We could always move it to a trivia section --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.82.53\|172.70.82.53]] 17:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)