SCIENCE!

[stefanejones@dice.camp]

NOTE: Unfortunately I don't know who drew this lovely thing.

Also, it's just a gag. Don't overthink it.

[devwouter@mastodon.social]

@BorisBarbour @StefanEJones

Unless “raptors” is a constant of 1 in which case it the formula can be simplified.

[lunch@tilde.zone]

@StefanEJones the "raptor" cancels out on the right side

[martin@libera.site]

@Chaotic Unicorn #^https://www.geekytees.co.uk/product/velociraptor-distanceraptor-timeraptor/

[amro@todon.nl]

@StefanEJones I knew it! Velociraptors are bastards

[ninetiger@writing.exchange]

@StefanEJones

[haloedrain@toot.cafe]

@StefanEJones (me, thinking too hard about this joke): no, the raptors cancel out like that, it has to be (distance/time)*raptor

Though the possibility of a timeraptor is terrifying

[scriptfanix@maly.io]

@StefanEJones A colleague said it was incorrect and claims to have fixed it

[hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com]

@lunch @StefanEJones So Velociraptor = Distanceraptor / Time to balance out the sides of the equation?

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@StefanEJones double tap:

[lunch@tilde.zone]

@hypolite @StefanEJones or distanceraptorraptor

[efi@chitter.xyz]

@ScriptFanix @StefanEJones what if timeraptor is also a vector

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@efi @ScriptFanix @StefanEJones timeraptor: shut up math nerd!
And then it eats you

[koval_blazej@fedi.lzspz.net]

@hypolite @lunch @StefanEJones or distance(raptor)^2

[at@mathstodon.xyz]

@ScriptFanix @StefanEJones surely velociraptor = dpositionraptor/dt is even correcterer

[datum@zeroes.ca]

@StefanEJones Distanceraptor is implied by spaceraptor https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-hugos-puppies-20160427-snap-htmlstory.html

[dogfox@kpop.social]

Cartesian vectors don't form a group under multiplication* so division isn't defined.

*either kind. They are not closed under the dot product and there is no cross product identity.

@efi @ScriptFanix @StefanEJones

[efi@chitter.xyz]

@tezoatlipoca @ScriptFanix @StefanEJones

[efi@chitter.xyz]

@dogfox @ScriptFanix @StefanEJones aw, beans...

[thelancashireman@hostux.social]

@StefanEJones

Being picky:

Velociraptor = d (Distanceraptor) / dt

(Works when Distanceraptor isn't constant)