• @RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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          32 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.

    • @qarbone@lemmy.world
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      122 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.world
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        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.world
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        42 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.ml
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      52 months ago

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

  • NutWrench
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    192 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.

  • JackbyDev
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    132 months ago

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

    • @noobface@lemmy.world
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      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
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        62 months ago

        just the first part of the phrase

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

      • @Vespair@lemm.ee
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        42 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?

      • @mavu@discuss.tchncs.de
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        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

  • @pyre@lemmy.world
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    202 months ago

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

  • MagnyusG
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    192 months ago

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

  • IninewCrow
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    252 months ago

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

  • don
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    92 months ago

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

    Check and mate.

  • Subverb
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    102 months ago

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

    • @Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml
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      42 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

  • @Hyphlosion@lemm.ee
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    Reminds 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. -_-

  • Steal Wool
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    12 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