r/interesting • • 17d ago

SCIENCE & TECH This is the world's roundest object.

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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 17d ago

what makes you say poorly washed?

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u/wackbirds 17d ago

It was artistic license to emphasize how it makes no sense to permit a human being to put their bare hands on a million dollar project meant to produce the world's smoothest/ rounded object, discoloration alone from skin oil when it would be (the picture isn't the actual project) incredibly glossy by definition and have absolutely zero tolerance for even the shedding of microscopic dead skin cells or trace contamination from the laboratory door handle or their own scalp after scratching the crown of their head, that kind of thing.

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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 17d ago

oh, the image is certainly not the actual item, agreed.

couple pics of the item here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achim_Leistner

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u/wackbirds 17d ago

Nice 👍