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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • Simplified, regardless of your height, the plane would extend to horizontal. Looking around, you would see a perfect half sphere of sky above and half sphere of ground below. Using a theolodite, 180* and 180*.

    There are some semantics when you get into when you arrive, how the plane is lit and what the surface material is. If, for example, you and the plan “pop” into existence at the same time, you would see the sky surround you, and then the plane would grow asymptotically from your feet up to the horizon. I don’t really care to do the math, but at 1m if you were observing by eye you probably wouldn’t notice this growth.






  • After joking about this at work, I landed on the most cursed scale I could think of… pT = log10 FPW.

    Pros: no bottom to scale, increasing negative values asymptotically approach absolute zero. Water freezes at zero.

    1 pT is almost exactly the melting point of iridium. Lightning bolts are around 2 pT. Boiling points of neon and helium are in the neighborhood of -1 and -2.