Talk:3178: Hyperacute Interdynamics

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Explanatings!!! --DollarStoreBa'alConverse 02:37, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

E X P L A N A T E ! E X P L A N A T E ! E X P L A N A T E ! --DollarStoreBa'alConverse 02:42, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Incomprehension is futile - you will be explanated. 82.13.184.33 09:43, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

A black hole with the mass of the sun would have a Schwarzschild radius of 2.95 km. So it would take some significant revisions to theory to accommodate a grapefruit-sized object with that mass. Perhaps if it's digested by a squirrel, it gets smaller? BunsenH (talk) 03:32, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

hopefully quite a bit smaller, given the size of the squirrel in this example. KelOfTheStars! (talk) 05:15, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Not terribly impressed with the science chops of these "unifiers" if they can't work out what's gonna happen here. Hint: it's no happy dance for the squirrel. 2605:59C8:160:DB08:CDB6:FE7F:1FC9:524 16:28, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Eastern Gray Squirrel.... measures 16-20 inches (approx. 40-50 centimeters) .... would be too big for Hyperacute Interdynamics (10-30cm (~4"-12")) to apply. Clearly a squirrel's tail can be neglected (see: spherical cow theory), being a very skinny (even rat-like) whip with bulky but insignificant fritz. The head and body length is from 23 to 30 cm (9.1 to 11.8 in) -- Wikipedia ---- Also, a bit north of Randall's place, we have lots of "Red Squirrels" which are significantly smaller than East Gray tree-rats. "Red squirrels are much smaller than greys and measure about 35centimetres including their tails and grow to around 350grams." - (YouTube) Our locals say "chipmunk" but I knew chipmunks from Sequoya Nat Park and these aint them. --PRR (talk) 06:45, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

I'm from Randall's area and we always called chipmunks chipmunks. Yes, we heard of red squirrels, but only saw gray squirrels and chipmunks. Massachusetts has a population with steadfast opinions. Doubt it? Try driving in Boston. 173.188.192.138 14:09, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Lots of red squirrels in SE Mass ("South Shore"). They don't like cities much. Very intelligent animals. 2605:59C8:160:DB08:CDB6:FE7F:1FC9:524 16:15, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Would the tail be excluded? Yes it's an extension, but it's certainly a part of the squirrel, and as such would contribute to it's length. --DollarStoreBa'alConverse 14:36, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
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I don't think there's a prblem. When the squirrel is sat passively, it fits (roughly) within the size constraints and is therefore fully explainable via Hyperacute Interdynamics. Once it starts running around and jumping, with its tail trailing behind it, the predictive ability of theory lessens (needn't be a cliff-edge of understanding, could even smoothly sustain near-perfect accuracy for the Black giant squirrel, at least at rest, just isn't so fundemnentally precise any more) but HI is entirely accurate again the moment it stops to nibble a nut.
Though do squirrels eat grapefruit? (Solar-massive ones or otherwise.) I know someone left out pumpkin flesh, on a fallen tree in a woods near me, clearly from having created a Jack-O-Lantern for this year's Halloween (and apparently not thought to try making a few batches of pumpkin soup, for whatever reason), and it sat there for weeks (until it disintigrated) with no sign of either squirrels (American greys, unfortunately) or birds partaking of the 'feast'. 82.132.236.87 17:55, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Every year during Jack-o-Lantern season, squirrels are constantly trying to eat them even before they start rotting. I believe they're, once again, American Grays. They do indeed partake in feasts here, at least. --DollarStoreBa'alConverse 18:47, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Assuming, like me, that IP is in the UK... perhaps our 'invasive' Greys (hence the 'unfortunately'?) just haven't yet got used to the proliferation of pumpkins (we always used to make do with turnips, round here, until comparatively recent absorption of the US-style traditions). And the native reds are now far less likely to be near significant population so probably don't partake very much on such human bounty. 78.144.255.82 19:43, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Should we think of a name for this young cueball? He's been around quite a lot but still anonymous.--Darth Vader (talk) 21:13, 9 December 2025 (UTC)