I very slowly zoomed in on the actual words in the post.
Started off processing “molecule” as “mole”, “solar system” as “galaxy”, and thinking “ha, don’t know if that’s true but it sounds both plausible and neat”.
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Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Me: That doesn’t seem right. OH. Oh, I am stupid.
qarbone@lemmy.world 6 days ago
TootSweet@lemmy.world 6 days ago
There are definitely more hydrogen atoms in a mole of water than stars in the Milky Way.
The Milky Way has somewhere between 100 and 400 billion stars according to Wikipedia (110^11 to 410^11). A mole of water has 6.02210^23 molecules in it, each of which has two hydrogen atoms in it for a total of 1.204410^24 hydrogen atoms.
10^24 / 10^11 = 10^13 which is ten trillion. So, a mole of water has roughly ten trillion times as many hydrogen atoms as the Milky Way has stars.
parody@lemmings.world 6 days ago
Chad water / virgin Milky Way
hangonasecond@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Imagine how many more moles of hydrogen the Milky way must have than a single mole of water
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Wasn’t thinking moles, not that technical, but it sounded plausible vs. the number of stars in the Milky Way.
Wait…
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
The glass of water is a bit misleading. Your brain starts thinking about all the water molecules inside. That’s all.
steventhedev@lemmy.world 6 days ago
*OH~2~
Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I am impressed by how clever that was. Well done.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s almost impossible to see the last two words because your brain is already reeling from the rest of the statement. It took me a few tries to finally parse it.