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Re:14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10... by jb1991 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @03:06AM (#47044875)
> it was totally impossible to do with computer simulation and hasn't been studied to death in aerospace

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm.

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Re:14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10... by vntok on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @04:28AM (#47045386)
If you had to guess, which would you say it is?
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Re:14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10... by altmanaltman on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @01:03AM (#47057727)
Koryo Miura, the man known for the Miura fold, is kind of a legend in astrophysics and this fold has indeed been studied to death in aerospace since the 60s. So yeah it was pretty hard sarcasm.
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