XKCD comic from a few days ago ..
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reminds me of the spherical horse joke I used to tell … For those not in the know, physicists like to reduce complex problems to simpler problems, solve the simpler problem … so when designing a faster race-horse, why not make the horse spherical rather than its equine shape, figure out what slows down a spherical horse, then that should be similar for the equine shaped horse … right? right? Bueller? Bueller?