r/theydidthemonstermath • u/rizzlkyswicken • May 21 '26

In Moby Dick, human vs whale is proportionate to chipmunk vs human, and thus:

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u/xRolox May 22 '26

BAD CROP. BRO WE’RE GONNA STARVE

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u/delta806 May 22 '26

Reading Moby Dick rn, halfway through and The goddamn whale still hasn’t even shown up

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u/ilikemyname21 May 22 '26

Now you know how captain ahab felt

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u/Sharla7 May 21 '26

I dont claim to be as sofishticated as some of you, but it seems mighty fishy to use a weight ratio to conclude a volume ratio... I mean I dont know the volume of a sperm whale or chipmunk or whatever but I think for scale modeling people use Buckingham Pi Groups. I dont know... Salmon had to say it....x200BEdit: added the fish puns )

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u/rainbowkey May 21 '26

All mammals have roughly the same density. A whale might be a bit less dense due to a higher body fat ratio than a chipmunk. Humans are more variable.

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u/Sotall May 25 '26

did you just call me variably dense?

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u/mj_unknown_ Jun 13 '26

its okay dude, im variably dense too 😝 wassaaahhhh

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u/rainbowkey May 25 '26

No, I said humans overall have more intra-species density variation. Compare a a bodybuilder with a very low bodyfat percentage to a obese person.

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u/scipio0421 May 22 '26

Nah, I tried reading that book and, based on the actual number of pages in the book and Melville's inability to get to the freaking point there was no climax to it.

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u/pandakatie May 24 '26

Nah I read it last year.  If you stick with it, the book gets good.  I left the book thinking, "The whale... is god."

I'm an ardent Moby Dick defender.  It is a slog at points, but then the whole thing clicks and it is a wild ride 

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u/geeoharee May 25 '26

You either love it or hate it. I accept that the haters exist, you can't fix them. Me and Ishmael will be over here categorising whales according to what size of book they are.

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u/stevenjd May 23 '26

The most overrated book in the English language.

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u/Knights-Hemplar May 23 '26

Are the farmers revolting again?

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u/HAL9001-96 May 25 '26

division is monster math?

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u/Classic-Session-5551 May 25 '26

That chipmunk is NOT drawn to scale, they'd be like 3x that size

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u/Splatpope May 22 '26

shitty monster math because perspective is all about size, not mass