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There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system.
:P
For now…
you mean the galaxy, a solar system usually has 1 star.
And a water molecule has 2 hydrogen atoms…
Yeah and how many hydrogen atoms are there in a SINGLE water molecule?
Woosh!
If memory serves, binary star systems are more common but the statement was specifically on the system around Sol
Some have more than one, and no solar system has zero stars, so the average is greater than one.
What about when the stars degrade into a dwarf?
I think I read somewhere we nearly were a binary star system with jupiter as the second star, if not for the rest of the gasses formed saturn which also made sure that jupiter moved out.
I remember briefly hearing that speculation but then PBS Spacetime putting that theory to bed by explaining that (IIRC) Jupiter would have to be much more massive for it to have had a chance at becoming a brown star.
Thanks
Sharks are older than trees
Also trees existed before bacteria did. So when a tree died it just fell over and sat there for a while. Never decomposing
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The earliest trees evolved around 400 million years ago.
The ancestors of bacteria were unicellular microorganisms that were the first forms of life to appear on Earth, about 4 billion years ago.[23] For about 3 billion years, most organisms were microscopic, and bacteria and archaea were the dominant forms of life.
It’d be remarkably fortuitous if bacteria evolved to break down wood before wood existed.
Yeah, I was quick in writing that comment
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.
Wild fires must have been insane.
They are also older than the rings of Saturn.
All the planets in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon
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.
I’m confused what you mean by wider. As far as I can tell Australia is about 4000km wide and the moon’s circumference is about 11000km
EDIT: it’s late and I am dumb, I take it you mean the moon’s diameter! 3474km
And murcury is the closest planet to all of them!
Gonna need a fact check on this one.
Are we counting the gas of Jupiter or just the solid core? Same for the others
Actually, Jupiter doesn’t have a solid core the way you think! The gases just get so dense at the core that it starts to behave like a solid. You couldn’t, like, blow away all the clouds and have some rock to wander around on.
I assumed the hydrogen had become condensed into a crystal solid? Or at least, that’s the current theory
Whole planets. You do have to cant Saturn because the rings don’t fit
they’re ephemeral anyway
thats why you just flip Saturn so the rings unobtrusively stick up and down and not horizontal
Toads swallow food with their eyes. When they snag some food into their mouth they close their eyelids, and their eyes go inside and help push food down the throat before coming back up to the front of the head.
Sounds like a usefull skill for the next all you can eat buffet.
That would bring new meaning to “eyes bigger than your stomach”
It’s always fascinating for me to learn about the totally unexpected and “creative” solutions evolution “comes up” with, real or simulated.
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.
Is it snap? You might have to slow down your rate of jerk
I hope it’s not it Canonical might sue them.
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If you took all the DNA from every cell of one person and laid it in a straight line they would die
Red grapefruits were originally created by planting yellow grapefruit near a radioactive source with the express purpose of creating mutations in the plant.
From what I read, red grapefruit like Ruby Red existed naturally, but the atomic mutations only made them more red / not fade over time.
Radioactivity and chemical mutagens are normal methods of creating new traits in crops. That’s how new varieties of fruits, grains etc. are often created. Nobody knows what exactly it does on the genomic level, usually. And then people complain about modifying a specific gene by targetted tools…
Absolutely, there are thousands of cultivars that were created via mutagenesis (and all of them qualify for organic food, because this isn’t GMO for some reason)
But quite few followed the old “chuck some cobalt in a circle of crops and see what happens” method they used for grapefruit.
So that’s where Oxygen Not Included got the idea from.
The moon is currently drifting away from the Earth. Eventually, that will make total eclipses impossible, so enjoy them while they last.
Fast forward a few billion years, and the Sun begins to swell up, engulfing the closest planets. At some point, the atmosphere of the Sun could begin to cause drag on the Moon, slowing it down. If so, the Moon begins to crash down on Earth. Once it reaches the Roche limit, it gets shredded into kwazillion bits, and the Earth will have rings, just like Saturn.
Something like a fifteenth of all humans who have ever lived are alive today.
Carrying capacity of agriculture goes brrr.
And then a century of low child mortality on top of that.
There a more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water, than there are stars in the entire solar system.
Told that joke to my daughter. Didn’t understand it. Fine, hydrogen, atoms molecules… thought one for a 10 y/o with no particular interest in science.
But then I asked how many stars our solar system had.
Answer: “I don’t know”
Asked with emphasis on “our solar system”.
Answer: “Infiite number of stars”
Asked how many stars are in out living room
Answer: “Zero”
Asked how many stars are on our planet
Answer: “Zero”
Me thinking we are on track and that she understood the scoping error in her first assessment asking the original question again with emphasis on sun (in german its sonnensystem, I.e. sun system, so it makes sense)
Answer: “Zero”
Lovely seeing extrapolation in real live.
I’m sorry, you are raising an AI.
At least read the top comment before you write the exact same thing.
Sorry I don’t have it sorted by top :p
Heehee, you’re clever.
If you do not vote, you support political parties that you do not agree with at all.
That’s neither scientific or real.
Which science class did you learn that science fact in? Chemistry? Physics?
I mean, there is such a field as political science.
Wrong community.
Support? No.
Accidentally help gain traction/control? Yes.
I do not support the weeds taking over my garden. Though failing to fight them will still result in weeds all over my garden.
“support” has multiple definitions. My chair supports me.
Someone standing on my shoulders is being supported by me whether or not I like the situation.
If we take your chair away, you fall. If we take you away, the person standing on your shoulders falls.
What happens if we take a non-voter out of the picture? Does that change the outcome in any way?
This isn’t political science, it’s actual science. Get lost.
It’s more like you support the one party who the majority of voters support.
Maybe? One-vote margins have happened, but they’re pretty rare. The basic idea of strategic voting is also obvious to most people, if not some Lemmy kinds of people.
You could say that you’re not not supporting them, at least. Some parties hope for low turnout.
There’s 10⁹ living cells in a gram of surface soil, and in 20 km depth that reduces to 10⁶ cells per gram, but they’re still alive and actively metabolizing down there! eating rock, mmhm tasty rock oh yeah! :p
they have cell turnover rates of hundreds of years though, so they age very slowly and multiply very slowly due to energy shortage.
Life uhh… find a way.
I wonder if they ever check samples from like meteors, asteroids or moon rocks for evidence of that kind of organism.
Yes, it’s done often.
Thank you for posting that, i had no idea
The chip on my shoulder wants to rattle off a litany of facts related to women’s health, but I imagine this was intended to be a lighthearted post so I’ll grab my popcorn and wait to see what others share
You can’t just tease us like that and not deliver…
I wanna hear all of them!
Chainsaws.
I fuckin knew it!
Women are more likely to have auto immune diseases due to having two copies of every X chromosome gene, and something related to the complex biological machinery involved in getting a woman’s immune system to not kill developing foetuses.
Thank you for reading the room. And sorry women’s healthcare sucks.
Fundamentally everything and everyone, even nothing, is made of the same fields of invisible…stuff. We can measure them in very accurate detail. We are all connected. We are all ripples and waves in those fields. Everything is. If only you could see the entire spectrum of light, you would see one of those fields.
All I can see when I look in your eyes are the waves of love that connect us.
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Blue birds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?
Pigeons make milk.
Wow! It’s controlled by the same hormone as in mammals: prolactin.
I figured this might surprise people. 😁
For the record though, I would like to discourage people catching pigeons and squeezing them to add milk to their hot morning beverages.
Unless it’s a mourning dove. In that case, the homonym allows for it.
You just made me realize that people holding birds that can lactate in captivity for their milk isn’t an impossible scenario.
Haha. 🐦🥛
Another reason why birds could not be real.
