the-real-numbers:

altnasa:

I am never ever ever going to be over that criminal minds episode (I think it’s like the third one?) where the college kids are like “have you ever tried to solve the three body problem? mutual gravitation between the earth, moon, and sun?” and I just… is this class being taught by a mathematician? you ignore the moon… it’s tiny… so little…

Small brain: just make a simple two-body model without the moon, it’s too complicated to include it.

Normal brain: Make a three body model and include the moon.

Big brain: what are you, a Mathematician? The moon’s mass is small enough to ignore. Make it a two-body problem.

Galaxy brain:*abusing the shared computational resources to simulate every dust speck in the universe* make it an everybody problem.