@anyaustin.bsky.social The riverwalk in Ansonia, CT used to just end. A couple years back they finally put a pedestrian bridge over the rail line you can see on the right there and you can walk all the way along it without having to go back.

And yes, that is the water treatment plant.

Cat, this is untenable.

Today in nerdsnipes: if you drop a small ball down the center of a 1-meter-radius bottomless pit, how long does it take (and how far down does it go) to hit the wall? 16.147 seconds, falling 1,273 meters.

www.desmos.com/calculator/y... today in nerdsnipes: given a self-intersecting 2d cubic bezier, where exactly does it self-intersect?

Today in nerdsnipes: if you use the entire moon to squash a bug on earth, what else do you squash?

Any human within about 2.2 km, any one story building within about 3.7 km, and the burj khalifa within about 47.5 km.

www.desmos.com/calculator/k...

Vornmath 0.3 is out. This finishes out the mathematical functions from GLSL. Also, two new demos: a rational bézier curve and a dispersing prism. github.com/DUznanski/vo...

Today's nerdsnipe: what's the highest excess angle you can get in a triangle between line-of-sight-visible points on Earth? This is the best I found after a short search: Mt. Kenya in the north, Mt. Kilimanjaro in the south, Mt. Oloorgesalie in the west, 324km north-south: 0°1'20" excess angle.