 Draw an iceberg and see how it will float! We often draw icebergs vertically, with a little tip above the water, and a giant part under the water. This doesn’t work, it wouldn’t float, because of mass distribution. If you want to have fun, draw your best iceberg, and see how it would actually float! https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html By @josh 90 comments
@dan613 I teach earth and environmental science classes sometimes (US middle/high school), and I am definitely going to use this when I teach it next! Thanks @stephaniewalter for sharing this! @stephaniewalter i used it countless times in meetings. most of the versions used in slides are falling over ;) cc @josh maybe its time for a podcast episode about physics vs. psychology of iceberg models? @derralf @josh @NadjaBoehlmann @Alisa @mariakuehn @karen would 10000% listen to it!!! yeees I painted Santa Claus' house. You may know, the one you draw with one pen stroke without painting a line double. https://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/house.html See, Santa is save! @stephaniewalter Sorry, i'm much too immature for that kind of things. I will end drawing a d*ck and laugh much too hard.  @PrincessConnasse @stephaniewalter i think i drew at least three dicks before actually experimenting with shapes for real
@stephaniewalter if you are so inspired, pop by #Newfoundland in the spring and see them in person ;) @stephaniewalter There's something wrong with the simulation. Draw triangle in top-left corner. Watch the crazyness. Draw same triangle in the middle, and it behaves differently.
    @stephaniewalter it does depend on the objects starting position, though. Very interesting.  @stephaniewalter I will neither confirm nor deny. @f4grx @stephaniewalter I read this and I agree. But my first thought (ADHD) was: I think an iceberg murdered this person's loved ones. Most folks cobble stuff together and seek a thing that does the job. Some folks are malicious. This creates a confusing landscape but it's also all I've ever known the web to be. Beating on something that brings joy to people doesn't get them to heed your words. I also don't have a magic solution to get folks to pay attention.  @Myriam @stephaniewalter I know. But if devs were globally attentive to this, the web would be much less the trash fire we have today. @f4grx @stephaniewalter have you seen GIFs? Most of them are riddled with useless shit that's there because of parents from companies long gone. It's just....the web. And it's rotting. Bad. Like I said, I don't have a solution. I'm just here to talk to someone who gets the issue but who, like me, doesn't have a solution (yet?). P.S. my grandpa Simpson trait is that I shout that TikTok is a fucking keylogger with extra features.     @stephaniewalter I just realized it's a misunderstanding of the phrase tip of the iceberg, and how it makes sense that that's what people think.  Thank you, I had a lot of fun with this back in the day and I didn't remember it! @stephaniewalter if you make a short 2D stick in the air and let it drop into the water it will flutter around and spin endlessly. @DanadasGrau oh, snap, indeed it's down today, that toot got a lot of success I hope it didn't ddos @stephaniewalter this is way more addictive than one might think from the description
@stephaniewalter me, designing an iceberg that rotates as it settles so that a pointy bit stabs upwards into the sun: hell yeah little buddy, attack and dethrone god @stephaniewalter Oops! I made an iceberg that is infinitely unstable (not really - just in the simulation) @stephaniewalter Can we please have little penguins added that appear when the iceberg has leveled out? 🐧  @stephaniewalter I'm in NZ so it's past bedtime on Sunday here. There goes my early night! @Niall @stephaniewalter RUBBER DUCKY !! Sorry. Saw this and my brain's output was what you just read.  @stephaniewalter  @stephaniewalter  @stephaniewalter expired DNSSEC signature @josh so that website doesn't load for me. https://dns.google/query?name=joshdata.me @risottobias @stephaniewalter Thanks! Your message helped me quickly figure out what went wrong. Should back back up now/soon.  |
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@stephaniewalter This looks like it would be a fun science class activity.