• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months 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.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      451·
      2 months ago

      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)

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        2 months ago

        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!

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        18·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 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”.

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        2 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 (1*10^11 to 4*10^11). A mole of water has 6.022*10^23 molecules in it, each of which has two hydrogen atoms in it for a total of 1.2044*10^24 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.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

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

        Wait…

    • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

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

    • noobface@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

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

      edit: Ok this was supposed to be a joke about mansplaining something you know nothing about, but we fell into Poe’s law.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        just the first part of the phrase

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

      • Vespair@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        2 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?

        • mogranja@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I didn’t get that behavior, but no significant result to explain the expression either.

          But on the topic of weird behaviors, try to get copilot or meta AI to make a sign or an image for you with a phrase in a different language than your own.

          They always translate it, I can’t get them to keep the exact text at all.

      • mavu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        2 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”

        Edit: i should add, that as far as i know, a chappeau is a type of cap or hat? Right? have to google that.

        edit2: yes, a hat. The origin of the use I know for it is probably a salute where you touch your finger or hand to the hat, or lifting the hat.
        Here saying “hat” seems to be enough :D

  • TheImpressiveX@lemm.eeEnglish
    801·
    2 months ago
    Click here if you don't understand

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

    • Iron Lynx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49·
      2 months ago
      And if you somehow still don't get it, click here

      Meanwhile, there are two hydrogen atoms in a water molecule - H2O

        • Iron Lynx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          271·
          2 months ago
          And if all of this continues to elude you, click here

          You just lost The GameTM.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          15·
          2 months ago

          Only if they are good things. 2 people trying to stab you, not greater than 1. Pessimism, the negative perspective. Only in math do we hold onto those darn dashes

          • chingadera@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            This guy is right, we need an asterisk.

            We need the same number of stars in our solar system equivalent of CCs of asterisk in here, stat.

          • Kitathalla@lemy.lolEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            2 people trying to stab you, not greater than 1

            From the Hollywoo rule of attackering protagonists, more attackers mean more ways to foil them by misdirection and mutual banging each other, therefore 2>1.

            • Iron Lynx@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              I’ve seen this described as Conservation of Ninjitsu, the more mooks Our Hero must face, the less competent each of those mooks will be.

            • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              Plot armor set at 100 but if suddely someone gets a lot more screen screen time and is told how important they are to to people, they get a -75 to their armor for the next 20 minutes of runtime.

              Much like that 5 minute gap in a romcom where their int. hits 0 for 5 minutes and they fail to be able to ask a single question and just steam roll what they act like is a tank into a square but really ends up being that it was a misunderstanding.

  • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
    472·
    2 months ago

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

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

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

  • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
    25·
    2 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.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      111·
      2 months ago

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

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

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

  • don@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

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

    Check and mate.

  • Subverb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    2 months ago

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

    • Hammocks4All@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      2 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

      • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

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

        I also don’t think that water drop fact is correct. The estimated number of stars in the observable universe is 10^24, which is about an order of magnitude more than 1 mol, and 1 mol of water is about 18g, which is quite a bit more than 10 drops.