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gsv
programming.dev
gsv@programming.devJoined: 2025-03-23 |
Clouds.
And there’s much more to be found. |
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bizarroland
lemmy.world
bizarroland@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-08 |
Which science class did you learn that science fact in? Chemistry? Physics?
I mean, there is such a field as political science. |
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Tollana1234567
lemmy.today
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today Joined: 2025-06-04 |
There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system. :P
you mean the galaxy, a solar system usually has 1 star. |
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CheeseNoodle
lemmy.world
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-14 |
you mean the galaxy, a solar system usually has 1 star.
And a water molecule has 2 hydrogen atoms... |
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NorthWestWind
lemmy.world
NorthWestWind@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-11 |
you mean the galaxy, a solar system usually has 1 star.
Yeah and how many hydrogen atoms are there in a SINGLE water molecule? |
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Tollana1234567
lemmy.today
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today Joined: 2025-06-04 |
Also trees existed before bacteria did. So when a tree died it just fell over and sat there for a while. Never decomposing
that isnt true, there was no decomposing fungi, bacteria that evolved yet at the time of the carbiniferous peroid, and those "tree" were actually gigantic gametophytes(posessing half the chromosomes) of early bryophytes. the actual first tree dint evolve til after that peroid. |
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fallaciousBasis
lemmy.world
fallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldJoined: 2026-01-03 |
Time derivatives! Rate of change in position is called velocity Rate of change in velocity is called acceleration Rate of change in acceleration is called jerk Rate of change in jerk is called snap Rate of change in snap is called crackle Rate of change in crackle is called pop
Don't forget jitter, now! |
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finallymadeanaccount
lemmy.world
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldJoined: 2025-12-31 |
Voyager is fantastic, but it’s still way, way closer to the solar system than anything else. An excerpt from Wikipedia: At this rate, it would need about 17,565 years to travel a single light-year.[78] To compare, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, is about 4.2 light-years (2.65×105 AU) distant. If the spacecraft was traveling in the direction of that star, it wo...
This is why I don't get excited to hear about the discovery of 'Earth-like planets' 182 light years away. |
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deadbeef79000
lemmy.nz
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz Joined: 2023-06-17 |
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It'd be remarkably fortuitous if bacteria evolved to break down wood before wood existed. |
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otter
lemmy.dbzer0.com
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comJoined: 2023-11-18 |
Australia is wider than the moon. If earth had the size of a football (soccer), the moon would be about 7m away. If the sun had a diameter of 1m, Neptune would be 5.6km away. In that scale model, the next star would be placed in the outer planets. Space is insanely big.
7 meters? |
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otter
lemmy.dbzer0.com
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comJoined: 2023-11-18 |
Time derivatives! Rate of change in position is called velocity Rate of change in velocity is called acceleration Rate of change in acceleration is called jerk Rate of change in jerk is called snap Rate of change in snap is called crackle Rate of change in crackle is called pop
Wait, what. 🤩 |
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otter
lemmy.dbzer0.com
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comJoined: 2023-11-18 |
Red grapefruits were originally created by planting yellow grapefruit near a radioactive source with the express purpose of creating mutations in the plant.
Commies! They're in your fruits! |
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otter
lemmy.dbzer0.com
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comJoined: 2023-11-18 |
I mean, there is such a field as political science.
Yeah, and "Communication" is a major, too. Point? I expect you also hold that Statistics isn't blatant sorcery, too? |
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state_electrician
discuss.tchncs.de
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de Joined: 2023-06-12 |
7 meters?
I looked up the circumference of a football and it said about 70cm. As the moon is about 10 times the circumference of the earth away, that'd put the moon at 7m away. |
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threelonmusketeers
sh.itjust.works
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-06-10 |
Time derivatives! Rate of change in position is called velocity Rate of change in velocity is called acceleration Rate of change in acceleration is called jerk Rate of change in jerk is called snap Rate of change in snap is called crackle Rate of change in crackle is called pop
And if I recall correctly
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Tar_Alcaran
sh.itjust.works
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-10-06 |
you mean the galaxy, a solar system usually has 1 star.
Some have more than one, and no solar system has zero stars, so the average is greater than one. |
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slazer2au
lemmy.world
slazer2au@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-30 |
Red grapefruits were originally created by planting yellow grapefruit near a radioactive source with the express purpose of creating mutations in the plant.
So that's where Oxygen Not Included got the idea from. |
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
pawb.social
Kolanaki@pawb.socialJoined: 2024-10-06 |
Snakes have two dicks. |
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DokPsy
lemmy.world
DokPsy@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-18 |
you mean the galaxy, a solar system usually has 1 star.
If memory serves, binary star systems are more common but the statement was specifically on the system around Sol |
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Tar_Alcaran
sh.itjust.works
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-10-06 |
I was taught glass is a supercooled liquid. If you look at window panes that are over 100 years old they are thicker at the bottom than at the top because they slowly flow down due to gravity.
You were taught wrong. It's from how the glass was made, and sometimes it's thicker on top, or on the sides, depending on how it was installed. Glass doesnt sag. |
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threelonmusketeers
sh.itjust.works
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-06-10 |
Don't forget jitter, now!
Which one is jitter? |
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threelonmusketeers
sh.itjust.works
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-06-10 |
If you took all the DNA from every cell of one person and laid it in a straight line they would die
Relevant xkcd: How long would you survive with no DNA? |
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Tar_Alcaran
sh.itjust.works
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-10-06 |
I am the sexiest person you have ever met in your life.
Hi Sarah! |
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Alcan
lemmy.world
Alcan@lemmy.worldJoined: 2025-05-22 |
The sun feels warmer when it's farther away. (I'm not completely sure if this only happens in the north hemisphere) |
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threelonmusketeers
sh.itjust.works
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-06-10 |
There's more ships in the ocean by weight than there's fish. [edit] See my other comment below, probably more accurate to say the total weight of all ships is around the same as the total weight of all ocean fish.
By how much? (And how do we know this?) |
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threelonmusketeers
sh.itjust.works
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works Joined: 2023-06-10 |
Snakes have two dicks.
"Hemipenis" |
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OldQWERTYbastard
lemmy.world
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-21 |
"Hemipenis"
See also: Brodozer and Pavement Princess. |
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potoooooooo 🥔
lemmy.world
ivanafterall@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-20 |
Time derivatives! Rate of change in position is called velocity Rate of change in velocity is called acceleration Rate of change in acceleration is called jerk Rate of change in jerk is called snap Rate of change in snap is called crackle Rate of change in crackle is called pop
This explains the sounds when I move to get up, these days. |
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potoooooooo 🥔
lemmy.world
ivanafterall@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-20 |
Commies! They're in your fruits!
Commies and fruits have been bedfellows for a long time. |
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StillAlive
piefed.world
StillAlive@piefed.worldJoined: 2025-11-09 |
Sharks are older than fire. Sharks existed before there was enough O2 in the atmosphere to sustain a fire.
What. The. Fuck. |
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JustTesting
lemmy.hogru.ch
JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch Joined: 2023-06-25 |
By how much? (And how do we know this?)
From an old XKCD What-If, which put it at 2.15 gigatons ships vs 2 gigatons fish. But that uses quite old numbers. Looking at up to date data from the UN there's 2.4 gigatons of ships. Note that this is dead-weight tonnage, so fully loaded. Empty is probably more like ~0.5 gigatons, so it'd depend on how fully loaded the ships are. And a quick search turns up this paper which references several estimates for fish biomass form other papers, which would put fish biomass somewhere between 0.4 and 4.9 gigatons depending on estimate. So I put it too strongly saying "more", it'd be more accurate to say fish biomass and ship mass is within the same order of magnitude. Also note that it's only fish, not like plankton, shrimp, etc. |
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Airowird
lemmy.blahaj.zone
Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone Joined: 2025-07-01 |
There's more ships in the ocean by weight than there's fish. [edit] See my other comment below, probably more accurate to say the total weight of all ships is around the same as the total weight of all ocean fish.
In or on? |
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RunawayFixer
lemmy.world
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-09-02 |
Which one is jitter?
None of those, but I think a series of irregular jerks could be considered jitter. |
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towerful
programming.dev
towerful@programming.dev Joined: 2023-06-30 |
Chainsaws.
I fuckin knew it! |
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Nastybutler
lemmy.world
Nastybutler@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-24 |
We were taught wrong. That is an artifact of how the glass was made. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-fiction-glass-liquid/
That article doesn't contradict what I was taught, just that the reason for the melted appearance of old glass isn't due to this state, as that would take longer than the universe has existed to reach that effect, but due to old glass making techniques. We weren't taught wrong, just given the wrong timeframe for it to happen. Doesn't change the fact that glass isn't a solid. Don't know why my original comment is currently negative. I guess I'm taking the down votes earned by my chemistry teachers back in the 90s. |
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andallthat
lemmy.world
andallthat@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-19 |
Snakes have two dicks.
Like a... bifurcated one similar to their tongue or they have two in different parts of their body? And do females also have two holes? So many questions! |
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andallthat
lemmy.world
andallthat@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-19 |
This explains the sounds when I move to get up, these days.
Is it snap? You might have to slow down your rate of jerk |
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AnyOldName3
lemmy.world
AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-12 |
In reply to an earlier post
That article never says amorphous solids are liquids, and repeatedly says they're solid. Your claim is like saying modern TVs aren't true TVs because they're really HD TVs as if HD contradicts the TVness of something. It's just nonsense. |
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Zacryon
feddit.org
Zacryon@feddit.orgJoined: 2024-07-10 |
In reply to an earlier post
Sounds like a usefull skill for the next all you can eat buffet. |
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Zacryon
feddit.org
Zacryon@feddit.orgJoined: 2024-07-10 |
In reply to an earlier post
That's okay. We're not on reddit and just have a lighthearted chat without corporate interests in it. |
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Lumisal
lemmy.world
Lumisal@lemmy.world Joined: 2024-03-16 |
In reply to an earlier post
Gonna need a fact check on this one. Are we counting the gas of Jupiter or just the solid core? Same for the others |
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asdfasdfasdf
lemmy.world
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-25 |
In reply to an earlier post
From what I read, red grapefruit like Ruby Red existed naturally, but the atomic mutations only made them more red / not fade over time. |
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BradleyUffner
lemmy.world
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-11 |
In reply to an earlier post
I think you might actually be thinking of the Pitch Drop Experiment? |
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harambe69
lemmy.dbzer0.com
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2024-10-03 |
The universe is jerking it |
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Deconceptualist
leminal.space
Deconceptualist@leminal.space Joined: 2025-06-29 |
And if I recall correctly Rate of change in pop is called lock Rate of change in lock is called drop
When the fuck could those possibly be useful? 😆🙃 |
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blueduck
piefed.social
blueduck@piefed.social Joined: 2025-10-19 |
Gonna need a fact check on this one. Are we counting the gas of Jupiter or just the solid core? Same for the others
Whole planets. You do have to cant Saturn because the rings don’t fit |
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harambe69
lemmy.dbzer0.com
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2024-10-03 |
What. The. Fuck.
The real facts are in the sub-comments |
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Zier
fedia.io
Zier@fedia.ioJoined: 2023-06-17 |
Hi Sarah!
Heyyy!!! |
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Zier
fedia.io
Zier@fedia.ioJoined: 2023-06-17 |
In reply to an earlier post
Everyone who has met me. |
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Zier
fedia.io
Zier@fedia.ioJoined: 2023-06-17 |
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It's been a week, did you forget me already??? |
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