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BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• webpack@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  (assuming your post isn’t a joke) it is impossible to cause a nuclear reaction by cutting cucumbers.

  the biggest innacuracy in this comic is that as the panel zooms in on the cucumber atoms, the knife looks exactly the same. if it was realistic it would just be a bunch of metal atoms pushing aside a bunch of cucumber atoms, not a sharp knife slicing through individual atoms.

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bro, you should sharpen your knives.

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    • maniii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Won’t this cause nicks and dulling as sudden heating and impact lead to both knives becoming extremely useless ?

      Also replacing one of the knives with a sharpening rod, I can sort of suspend disbelief enough to believe it “possible”.

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe it’s not zooming in. Maybe the atoms of the cucumber are getting bigger! 😏

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  • beetsnuami@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well… that, and one nucleus splitting in half wouldn‘t start a chain reaction in a cucumber, and therefore not release a macroscopically noticeable amount of energy.

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    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      To put into perspective just how trivial it is, the actual amount of energy of splitting a single nucleus is on the order of picojoules. The shock from touching a doorknob is a few millijoules, literally millions of times more powerful.

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  • averyminya@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Subtle Knife is definitely so sharp that it cuts through dimensions, so I think it would cut atoms.

    So really that just means it’s not inaccurate, it’s just a very specific, fictional knife!

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• Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fission doesn’t happy because we cut atoms in half. Fission happens because we blast enriched uranium with neutrons, the uranium absorbs a neutron, gets too heavy, and falls apart.

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s just one way to do it.

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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I know very little about physics and I’m pretty sure you could cut cucumbers with a knife until the end of time and you’ll never trigger a nuclear explosion.

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• BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s also why cats are afraid of cucumbers.

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• NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Actually, it’s because cucumbers are so cool (c.f. cool as a cucumber) that they’re in a ground state. It’s actually endothermic to split their atoms so you don’t get a chain reaction.

  Cutting hot vegetables, habernaros for example, is much more risky and adequate precautions should always be taken to avoid radioactivity contaminating sensitive regions of the body.

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  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I thought the only option with cucumbers is to keep mashing them together until fusion, no?

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• Johanno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ok if it is theoretically possible to cut atoms bay using metal knives then why didn’t ever a fission happen? I mean if you combine all knife cutting in the whole world since knives exist, the probability should be pretty high.

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, it probably happened an infinite amount of times already. But the resulting cucumber-detonation just triggers a new Big Bang. We’re on the whatever-millionth reset now. Should end any day now. STOP CUTTING CUCUMBERS, SHEEPLE!!

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  • allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, this happened once: iaea.org/…/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-…

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    • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well fission of uranium isn’t hard. I want you to see to fission a C atom! XD

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    • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hmm this made me wonder why something like this wouldn’t melt the rock and then sink into the crust and then into the planet. Probably not hot enough.
      And that made me think if we could build something like a big pellet of fissile material, encase it in tungsten or something so that it is hot enough to do so but remains stable, and then let it sink into the earth. Maybe that could be tracked? Then we could learn something about how it moves and where it ends up. But probably can’t be tracked since this isn’t star trek 🖖

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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But what would you do with the sliced cucumbers of millenia?

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dunno. I guess growing them fast enough would also be a problem.

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• apocalypticat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’re assuming the blade would be thinner than the nucleus, at the very least.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Someone let Einstein loose, we must admit that violence is on occasion the only recourse.

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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Okay, now explain bananas.

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, that’s why we generally eat bananas without cutting. As everyone knows, bananas are slightly radioactive. This increases the danger when cutting them exponentially, so don’t do that.

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    • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What about your teeth?

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      • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What do your teeth look like, man?

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• Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The electromagnetic force from the atoms’ respective electron cloud probably help prevent atom get close to each other. And the strong nuclear force also help prevent atom from splitting.

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You mean I’m just not cutting strong enough?

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    • Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes

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• Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not with that attitude.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’re doing it wrong. The mouse just diced a cucumber really, really l, small.

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