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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 153 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Obviously the left one.

In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space is the unique point at any given time where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero. For a rigid body containing its center of mass, this is the point to which a force may be applied to cause a linear acceleration without an angular acceleration.

If they wanted this to be an actual, debatable question, they shouldn't have used 'center of mass', as the term has a specific definition and the question has a correct answer; it's not open to interpretation, like "How would a horse wear pants?" or similar questions.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it was meant to be taken seriously, but these are the types of comments I was hoping for. ;)

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 14 points 6 months ago

The most fun thing about this community is responding with serious answers to memes that were intended to be jokes. :)

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