• Skua
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    706 days ago

    My greatest ever achievement in the kitchen was that time I successfully cut a bagel into two interlocked rings like this

      • @Num10ck
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        155 days ago

        you could gentrify a neighborhood selling these hipster mobius bagels to couples.

        • @jaaake
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          65 days ago

          Stage 2 is for some hardware techbro to invent an artisanal moebius toasting methodology, and then suddenly even most white people can’t afford to live there.

    • @[email protected]
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      296 days ago

      This doesn’t seem possible, but it’s probable enough that I have thought about it way too long and I will probably have a dream about it in the near future.

      • troybot [he/him]
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        136 days ago

        Judging by the picture the slice is done in a spiral which results in two Mobius bagels

      • Natanael
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        6 days ago

        It’s sliced along the center, rotating the axis of slice 360 degrees as it goes along the circle, cutting it in two halves which interlock

    • @idiomaddict
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      26 days ago

      I just want to know how many times people did this accidentally before Möbius gave it a name

      • Skua
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        45 days ago

        There has been recognition of a particularly useful application of Möbius strips for a long time: belts in machinery wear out slower if they’re Möbius strips, because that way the contact with the shafts is split between both sides of the belt. The oldest example of this usage I know of is from a 13th century engineer in the region of modern-day Iraq and Syria