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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨sjmarf@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Sciaphobia@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me: That doesn’t seem right. OH. Oh, I am stupid.

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    • steventhedev@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *OH~2~

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      • Sciaphobia@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I am impressed by how clever that was. Well done.

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    • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wasn’t thinking moles, not that technical, but it sounded plausible vs. the number of stars in the Milky Way.

        Wait…

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    • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The glass of water is a bit misleading. Your brain starts thinking about all the water molecules inside. That’s all.

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  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is a masterfully crafted mansplaining trap.

    Chappeau.

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    • noobface@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s actually just the first part of the phrase. The whole thing is “je ne suis pas français, chappeau”

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        just the first part of the phrase

        Seems to me like it was the last part of the phrase.

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      • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        je ne suis pas français, chappeau

        I tried googling this to see if I was missing some reference or something and it led to strange google behavior I’ve never seen before… When I search “je ne suis pas français, chappeau” without the quotation marks, Google automatically changes the French to English in the search bar when I hit the search button.

        Anyone else experienced this? For what possible fucking purpose would that exist?

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      • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Huh, this is an interesting intercultural communiaction trap.

        In my area, this is just used as a shorthand/slang/idiom for “nice, i respect that” or in place of a nod or “thank you”

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hat

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Click here if you don't understand

    There is only one star in our solar system - the Sun.

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    • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
      And if you still don't get it, click here

      Meanwhile, there are two hydrogen atoms in a water molecule - H~2~O

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      • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
        If you're still having trouble, click here

        2 is greater than 1

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    • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
      i don’t understand

      why are you quoting the sun?

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      • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
        I understand

        It’s clearly short for “Sun Wukong.”

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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      • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, the “if you don’t understand the joke” comment explains the joke. That’s the point.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I really need to read better, I still thought it said galaxy.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s 2 > 1, so correct two hydrogens versus one star: Sol

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    • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      O sole mio!

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    • MamboNo5@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about celebrities?

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      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Celebrities contain more than one hydrogen, true.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are more memes estimating the size of the universe than there are stars in the galaxy.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Solar system.

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    • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ll have to prove this one.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With greater hydrogen comes greater responsibility.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like twice as much

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  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    • Number of hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water (H2O): 2
    • Number of stars in our (ENTIRE) solar system: 1

    That’s the joke.

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks, I never would have been able to understand 2>1 if you hadn’t written up that amazing power point slide.

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  • MagnyusG@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most people have more balls than there are stars in our solar system.

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    • Metostopholes@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, are you counting ovaries?

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      • phobiac@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The average human has somewhere between 1.1 and 1.4 testicles.

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    • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not Hitler though.

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    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a dog, so I’m bringing up the average. We’ve got (dog-sare) tennis balls galore!

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I skipped reading the word stars, and I thought it was deliberately wrong to rile people up.

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Petition to classify Pluto as a star

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    • 4oreman@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      petition granted

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We can just add it to Jupiter.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even with the +200 other dwarf planets we wouldn’t get there.

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      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sedna had it’s chance.

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      • friendlymessage@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Where is there? 2?

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My autopilot brain kept skipping over molecule and missing the joke lol.

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  • Subverb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There actually are more molocules of H2O in 10 drops of water than there are stars in the observable universe.

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    • Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Optimists: the glass is half full

      Pessimists: this half empty glass of water has more molecules than there are stars in the observable universe; life is meaningless

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    • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think we can much, now can we?

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      • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Observable universe” isn’t how much we can see, rather how much it is theoretically possible to observe by any physical means.

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  • don@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are fewer hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are fingers on my hand.

    Check and mate.

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  • NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also interesting: If you were to take your nerves out and lay them end on end you would die.

    Actually interesting fact

    Your height is closer to a light second than the size of an atom. And yet atoms seem more approachable in scale than light seconds. Fascinating stuff!

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do you define “closer” here? I’m about 1.8m removed from the size of an atom but well over 299 thousand kilometers from a light second.

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  • murtaza64@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ken M made a similar joke a while back right?

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have as many assholes as stars in our solar system, even though it seems like more to Lemmy.

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  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is especially true for blind people.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok I had to think about this for a second.

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  • anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    • spicehoarder@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Okay, I’ll bite. “what about it?”

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Woah!

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  • Hyphlosion@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Remimds me of the time someone on Xitter said that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in our Galaxy. They got ratio’d pretty damn hard for it. -_-

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    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Going by the top Duck duck go results for “how many stars in our galaxy” and “how many trees in the world”:
      “According to Jos de Bruijne, a scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA), the current estimate is between 100 to 400 billion stars.”
      and
      “There are an estimated 3.04 trillion trees in the world.”

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      • Hyphlosion@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s why it’s so crazy it was that that person was shat on so hard.

        Not finding the actual Tweet yet, but here’s a video covering it:

        youtu.be/Vael2yGvG_k

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      • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, if you think of it, stars are relatively rare in a galaxy when compared to living beings which are born to procreate. But once you go out to universe, it becomes true.

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  • Isa@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There might even be more hydrogen atoms in one molecule of water, than there are universes we live in!

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Uhhhh… No. Pretty sure it’s about equal.

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    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ±1

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      • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Weird water molecule if it had only 1 hydrogen atom. Pretty sure we call that peroxide.

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    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s the second star in our solar system?

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      • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ringo

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      • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No one asked but you, so thank you.

        Also,
        Ringo.

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    • randombullet@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s the other star in our solar system?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So do we not count the mini suns being created at places like Livermore Labs? 🤔

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We can’t make plasma dense enough to have significant convention over radiance, and the longest active run is only a minute or so. We’re a good way away from plasma stable enough to be called a star, although it’s getting closer. Hydrogen bombs are probably the closest we have so far.

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  • mspencer712@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I couldn’t find the clip, but first thing that came to mind was the StarTalk Live with Buzz Aldrin and John Hodgman.

    Hodgman: “maybe they’ll find H 2 2 2 2 O!”

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    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No need to feel foolish. You have introduced me to yet another John Hodgman project. And that’s all that matters in this world.

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  • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Infeel like this gets reposted here at least once a month, but this one has a different t pic, and way more likes

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    clearly never been down the hollywood walk of fame

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