Editing Talk:2513: Saturn Hexagon

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Interesting, I wrote a basic description since the page was blank, and apparently, within the time I was writing someone else posted an explanation so mine wasn't saved. It's interesting that that's how the site deals with things like that. In this case, the explanation the other guy wrote is better so it's fine, but what if you wrote something super long and detailed and it vanished because someone else was editing at the same time? It didn't appear in the version history so it's not like I could go back and retrieve the text. Again, it doesn't matter here but it's interesting to think about. [[User:Zman350x|Zman350x]] ([[User talk:Zman350x|talk]]) 02:23, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
:Sorry --[[User:FrankHightower|the other guy]] 2:27, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
:That sounds like a mediawiki bug that should be reported somewhere.  It's supposed to give you an opportunity to merge your changes in.  [[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.119|172.70.114.119]] 10:07, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
::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)

Just to note (in case anyone wonders why one particular edit, in passing) that the only SI length unit is the metre (and, yes, with the French-inspired '-re' ending in all 'English' nations ''except'' the US, who don't even want to use it so can't complain (/jk!)). Millimetres, centimetres, kilometres, etc are only present in the broader 'decimalised' metric system using the SI-prefixes. Just as the litre (ditto on spelling!) is not SI, but also is not SI-unit in size, being 1000 of the SI-derived baseline 'cubic centimetres' (each also being 1 millilitre), rather than anything as logical as being 1 whole cubic decimetre or awkward as a "milli-(cubic metre)". [[Special:Contributions/172.70.35.70|172.70.35.70]] 04:16, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

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)
:::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)


'' //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 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)

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)