meh... I've seen rounder

Looks like these official standards of weights and measurements people don't have enough to do.

I thought it was rather neat.

Obviously, the applications for this technology are near-infinite. Like for bowling. And for....league bowling.

Round silicon nodules have been done better before.

http://www.70disco.com/images/horta3.jpg

NERDS!

Who would have thought it would have been made by a bunch of squares?

So is this or is this not part of Fat Acceptance Week?

I didnt know science could be so boring

Science creates art.

Cool.

"The process of shaping the boule to form the first hemisphere began."

(still image of man whaling on boule with an iron mallet)

isn't it more grammatically correct to say the "most spherical" object ever?

Doesn't look any rounder than a bowling ball (before the holes get cut in.) These scientists fail.

Somewhere in the world, a wealthy fetishist is attempting to buy it...so he can shove it up his ass.

If they refuse his offer, he will hire a ninja to steal it.

Government agents will argue bitterly over who has to go steal it back.

Wow, this is some boring ass science up over here.

This was absolutely necessary.

Okay, so you made the world's roundest object. Now what?

Now I need to compare it with the least round object in the world.

You know where the "zooming in on still photos" thing belongs? In the fucking opening credits of Soylent Green and NO PLACE ELSE.

Australia's National Measurement Institute.

To: Enemies of science
From: Me
Message: Eat a bowl of dicks, kthx

Damn.

Now it have to put a dent in that thing.

I think the idea is to make the kilogram equal to a standard number of silicon atoms, rather than being defined as equal to the weight some lump of metal in France. So they make a sphere so perfect they can calculate it's volume in atoms. Science.

I was gonna say as soon as I saw the preview image, "That thing there is pretty fucking round."

"Now what do we do with it?"

Due to a lab accident, one of those scientists is really ROUNDO, THE ROUNDEST MAN IN THE WORLD!

o/~ Cap-tain Alain Picard... o/~

If only the most painfully virginal person in the world knew about thisand they'd have the attention of someone genuinely interested in the roundest object in the world!

But seriously, I kid the science because I know it can take it. Congrats on the giant Crossfire bullet, science.

(I know; someday I'm going to have to eat those words when I blow out a kneecap and have it replaced with technology based partly off the results of tests performed on this thing)

I spent most of the mid-90's studying at the Institute for Materia Growth.

If you don't five star this you are square.

The Daleks are inside that sphere, watch out!

It's like, how much more round could this be? and the answer is none. None more round.

That was...intresting.
I would have rated it higher if the actual video had been less dull.
Plus, when that musical sting came in at the end I nearly crapped myself.

"Great news, everyone! We have made the most round object in the world!"

"But what about the rest of the universe?"

"A-wha?"

I guess it all comes down to this: What were we expecting to see?

Sure, you say it's just a boring round thing now but wait until the Tall Man gets a hold of it.

...

It'll still be a boring round thing, but it'll be a different kind of boring.

The Earth's surface is smooth enough that if you were to shrink it down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be within tolerance of the international billiards' league standards.

However, the very slight axial bulge due to centripetal force makes it too lopsided.