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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

To illustrate, imagine if we kept getting taller and taller - like trying to fit the same volume of soda in a pencil-thin can that's about a meter long.

You use more and more aluminum the further away it gets from the minimum surface-area-to-volume container, which would be a sphere

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