• El Barto
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      9 months ago

      Please explain…

      Am I missing a very obvious joke, besides the wildly false claim?

      Edit: I just read it below. I’m dumb.

      • sj_zero
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        289 months ago

        Nothing false about it.

        How many stars are there in the solar system?

  • @[email protected]
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    619 months ago

    H2O …so, 2 hydrogen atoms in one water molecule.
    How many stars in the entire solar system ? Well, the answer is one 😋

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻
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      79 months ago

      It’s too late. ALL world leaders are in BIG DHMO’s pocket. They claim it is ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE and pay “scientists” to parrot this nonsense. WAKE UP PEOPLE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH

      • @[email protected]
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        119 months ago

        Define nobody. I’ve heard this joke from at least high school and I’m over 40. My teacher pulled it on my class, and probably every class he had.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          Go to any institution and scientific journal. You will never see this name. Nobody uses it aside from like you just said jokes and whatnot officially its never used. It’s scientific name is water. Good luck finding this in anything published for peer review.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            Ah, I didn’t realize you meant it that way. I have no argument against that, nor do I desire to have one.

  • @[email protected]
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    249 months ago

    Bullshit.

    Hydrogen atoms per water molecules: 2

    Stars in the solar system: Sol, Neil Patrick Harris, Justin Timberlake, possibly even more…

  • @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    Ignoring the joke.

    A metric cup is 250 ml.

    250 ml = 250 g (the density of water is intentionally 1.000 g / ml)

    Water ~= 18 g/mol ( H 1.008 g/mol, O 16.something g/mol)

    250 g / 18 g/mol = 13.8 mol

    13.8 mol * 6 * 10^23 atoms/mol = 8.33 * 10^24 molecules of water

    And there are two atoms of H in one molecule of water, so 1.66*10^25 atoms of hydrogen in a glass of water.

    That’s a lot

  • unalivejoy
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    139 months ago

    There’s also more hydrogen in a glass of water than oxygen.

    • @[email protected]
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      89 months ago

      Ours is the only Solar System, named after our star Sol. Others are generically called star systems or stellar systems.

  • Spzi
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    59 months ago

    Who else counted the fingers before reading the text? I save you the hassle, it’s 5.

  • @[email protected]
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    Did they read “a mole” and misinterpret it as “molecule” when writing the headline?

  • @[email protected]
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    -99 months ago

    I get the joke, but from the earth looking out, the other planets are all stars as well.

      • @[email protected]
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        Might depend on language also. Being a weeb, my example is going to be Japanese, where Hoshi(星) can mean both star and planet.

        Looking in wiktionary, sometimes this can be translated more to “heavenly body” but the source seems to have been about twinkling things in the sky. Still, I’ve definitely heard what would translate to “this star” being used for the planet the speaker lives on.

        Edit: also, the first time I spotted Jupiter with my telescope I thought it was a bright star with 2 dimmer stars around it. I changed my zoom, took pictures, and zoomed in before I realized it was Jupiter and it’s largest two moons. People with worse tech wouldn’t have thought " oh, that one doesn’t twinkle".

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    9 months ago

    Alright, I know where they went wrong here. There are more hydrogen atoms in a glass of water than stars in the universe.

    There are about 1.58 x 10^25 hydrogen molecules in 8oz of water, and there are an estimated 10^22 - 10^24 stars in the universe.

    Edit: super script markdown wasn’t working