- 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.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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Thanks, I never would have been able to understand 2>1 if you hadn't written up that amazing power point slide.
There are fewer hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are fingers on my hand.
Check and mate.
Infeel like this gets reposted here at least once a month, but this one has a different t pic, and way more likes
So do we not count the mini suns being created at places like Livermore Labs? 🤔
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.
Me: That doesn't seem right. OH. Oh, I am stupid.
*OH~2~
I am impressed by how clever that was. Well done.
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.
Not stupid. Our brain can just get tripped up sometimes and read what it expects to read instead of what's really there. The sad part is that there are educated people in the US even today that would be surprised or even argue against you if you stated the other version (more atoms in a glass than in our galaxy). Our science education is woefully lacking now.
What blew me away that I learned not too long ago is the notion that if the galaxy was the size of the US, our solar system would be the size of a fingerprint. Try to even visualize that. (reference is the Epic Spaceman YT channel)
We had a young, hippy science teacher through 70s grade school. Looking back, that woman made more impact on my life than any other teacher.
Every year, every fucking year, she'd start with the difference in fact and opinion. "Yeah, I get it already. Can we move on?" Apparently not many others got that bit of education.
She taught the scientific method and how it works, she taught how to experiment, how to measure. I still set a beaker down and wait for it to settle before moving on. And I'm not in science!
NGL our solar system being the size of a finger print is (somehow) bigger than I expected.
Another fun size thing I heard recently was that if an atom were the size of a football stadium then the nucleus would be the size of a pea.
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Click here if you don't understand
There is only one star in our solar system - the Sun.
And if you somehow still don't get it, click here
Meanwhile, there are two hydrogen atoms in a water molecule - H~2~O
If you're still having trouble, click here
2 is greater than 1
And if all of this continues to elude you, click here
You just lost The Game^TM^.
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There are more memes estimating the size of the universe than there are stars in the galaxy.
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With greater hydrogen comes greater responsibility.
Like twice as much
I skipped reading the word stars, and I thought it was deliberately wrong to rile people up.
Most people have more balls than there are stars in our solar system.
Wait, are you counting ovaries?
The average human has somewhere between 1.1 and 1.4 testicles.
Late edit: I was not sober when I wrote this and I definitely did the math wrong.
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