Greg Pfeil
RocketsoupIf a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?
Plausible Human Being@rocketsoup Searched 'Klein bottle'. Another useless knowledge item to clutter my diminishing brain. Best part about the search is that a company named Acme makes glass Klein bottles.
Mathias Panzenböck@LovingFalloutLondon1954 @rocketsoup It's Cliff Stoll! He's an astronomer and in 1986 when working as a system admin he uncovered a KGB hacker. See also this video where he shows off his operation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles UNDER his house - Numberphile
Gonçalo Ribeiro@bloody_albatross @LovingFalloutLondon1954 @rocketsoup his book about that journey is quite nice: The Cuckoo's Egg.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18914012-the-cuckoo-s-egg
cafeinux@bloody_albatross
Didn't know the thing about the KGB hacker. Do you recommend any article or video I could read/watch to learn more about this? If not I'll just take the first hit on <search engine>, works as well.
@LovingFalloutLondon1954 @rocketsoup
Didn't know the thing about the KGB hacker. Do you recommend any article or video I could read/watch to learn more about this? If not I'll just take the first hit on <search engine>, works as well.
@LovingFalloutLondon1954 @rocketsoup
@cafeinux @LovingFalloutLondon1954 @rocketsoup I don't remember where I heard about it, probably some YouTube video. People say his book about it (The Cuckoo's Egg) is a good read. Haven't read it myself.
Markus Redeker 🐘@LovingFalloutLondon1954 @rocketsoup When I read this, i felt like the geochemists in the XKCD cartoon (https://xkcd.com/2501). Surely everyone must know about Klein Bottles! 🙂
Mac 🟪 Webb • マコウェブ • мак веб@rocketsoup oh, you like to stir the pot, do you?
Fubaroque@rocketsoup Pockets should be on the inside. Please first determine what is inside then put those pockets there. 🤣
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Joshua Chalifour@rocketsoup so... a calvin klein bottle
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Keeper of the orb@rocketsoup oh my god this is so good lmfao
erinaceus@rocketsoup Where is the difference?
Condor Puma Serpiente
GLCOne leg is completely detached from the rest ...
@rocketsoup Obligatory: "Yes" 😛
HappyCrow13@rocketsoup I need to stay off the Internet for a while, I thought this was some fucky new coffee enema type trend for a moment
Cade@rocketsoup I think the pant leg goes in thru the fly.
Jacket@rocketsoup Those are technically two discontinued sleeves.
Tobias Schächtelin@rocketsoup What are "pants"?
nightjar@rocketsoup why does this look like someone vacuuming their own crotch
AG7GM DanYes. It would.
CubeOfCheese
inderix@rocketsoup twin its klenis is out you gotta cover that up 
dryad@rocketsoup Left one :)
0x4d6165 (Julie)@rocketsoup where's Cliff Stoll
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESthat's an easy question
all you have to do is define the inside and the outside
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😱 😱 😱
Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني@rocketsoup The belt must be a Möbius strip 😜
bituur esztreym@rocketsoup
whatever the style and shape of the pants, they should be Klein blue, as in International Klein Blue (IKB), (by Yves Klein).
whatever the style and shape of the pants, they should be Klein blue, as in International Klein Blue (IKB), (by Yves Klein).
derptron@rocketsoup Shouldn't it be a sockhat? Something to be worn on the foothead and protect its facebutt.
d.rift@rocketsoup boosted just because it's so wrong omgs lol nooooooo
KanaMauna
Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤@rocketsoup
Both. Simultaneously.
Both. Simultaneously.
GroßStadtPflanze 
@rocketsoup The answer is in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILfEAKX30KE
Pentatonix - The Sound of Silence (Live)
Larry@rocketsoup depends upon its gender?
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@quoidian @rocketsoup Definitely doesn't depend on it's orientation, tho!
european handle 
🎏@rocketsoup Surely both are wrong? No part of the bottle would show the inside of the pants, both the big bulb and the small tube would be the outside of the pants. Or the inside.
Jordi (Tubal Hippy)I love Mastodon for this exact kind of humor.
Dan HugoI bet Matt Parker would be into this, and/or Sarah-Marie Belcastro, but definitely have a look at this (Matt and Katie Steckles) from a long time ago
Top N Facts About The Klein Bottle
Or maybe Steve Mould and Matt Parker did some stuff here.
Matt is totally into Klein Bottles and topology in general. He may or may not be good at responding to direct questions, however.
LAUREN@rocketsoup where's the cat?
schuelermine@rocketsoup this kind of doesn't make any sense whatsoever
Large Format ProjectionistBoth. At the same time.
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur@rocketsoup
Thank YOU, Rocketsoup for asking a question that needed to be answered.
Thank YOU, Rocketsoup for asking a question that needed to be answered.
Smohc@rocketsoup These are the same bottle. I don't get it.
Greg Bell@rocketsoup @rk now do folding a fitted sheet
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyMathematics is not ready for such questions.
the thing 
@rocketsoup Why would you make such shape wear pants?
Overdrawn at the Gravitas Bank@rocketsoup
Either look to get it arrested in many places….
Either look to get it arrested in many places….
thejikz@rocketsoup Kelvin Klein?!
nLupo 
@rocketsoup That looks so cursed.
Reciprocity D'Parture@rocketsoup Yes. But also like this.
an actual bus@rocketsoup Brilliant.
Axalote
ideaPDishThe kline bottle has a first name...
Calvin
David G. Smith@rocketsoup And—ICYMI—there’s also this:
Kudra 
@iDGS @rocketsoup I had sortof assumed this was a kind of response to that, but if not, holy coincidences, batman!
Cypress@rocketsoup this reminds me of my favorite mathexchange question: “why can you turn a shirt inside out” which required a graduate-level topology explanation
