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Here's the part where I explain the joke

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[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If that is real, it is in pain. Overfed chickens typically spend the last ~month of their life in pain. I love chicken, but what we have done to get bigger yields is pretty gross.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

It's looks photoshopped, but the original was probably mid fluffing themselves up. They can get pretty round after they get up and shake the dust out of themselves.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago

I guess the chicken and egg may have appeared at the same time.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So it's obvious why it crossed the frictionless road. It's not like it could change it's mind on the middle.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The road being frictionless is irrelevant unless it's also in a vacuum.

Chickens are not very good fliers, sure, but even this spherical chicken could probably manage a short flight to whichever side of the road it pleased.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we assume the ground is frictionless, I'd assume we're assuming no air resistance, just to make it easy

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Air resistance would make flight harder, though, not easier, wouldn't it..?

As I understand it wings work by Bernoulli's principle, which is an air pressure / conservation of energy thing, so it should still work in a frictionless atmosphere...

Then again, we're talking chickens here (and spherical ones at that), which aren't particularly renowned for their aerodynamics and wing efficiency, so maybe they would need to be able to push on the air to generate lift...

But if we neglect gravity then chicken can jump indefenitely right? Just to make things simple....

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Assume spherical chicken

[–] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago

Borb (not mine)

[–] MalditoBarbudo@programming.dev 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, my physics teacher was right!! You really can assume a chicken is a perfect sphere!! Now is easier to calculate volume assuming pi is 5.78.

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Chicken pot pi

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Girl's literally V = ⁴/₃πr³

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 day ago

Butterball.

[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

No wonder they were Angry Birds.

[–] Mobiledecay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's not real. 😂

[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Costco, "woody", chicken

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

That’s a butter ball

[–] 10_0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago
[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

Honest McDonald's ad in so many ways... Mutated chickens and fat customers.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

She needs heat she's cold 🥶🔴🐔

[–] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

The body is round, the short legs aren’t made for distance.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

The embodiment of ok mate wanker

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

That bird's gonna pop like the one in Shrek

[–] 10_0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By the magic of cropping, voila!

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You missed a spot at the bottom.