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[–] porkins@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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@lotide.fbxl.net 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nothing false about it.

How many stars are there in the solar system?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I know. Hence my edit.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Can confirm. When I look up all I see is a single star and it hurts my eyes real bad when I look at it.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey guys, look at this big dumb dumb. He's never seen the moon before! There's obviously two stars in the sky

[–] kender242@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But the moon and the sun can't be in the sky at the same time. Otherwise it would be night time in the day!

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Actually, if it's a new moon, they can.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

never heard of private jets before? I hear lot's of stars own one.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

So there's this giant floating orb in the sky and we're not supposed to look directly at it yet no one questions this‽

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish people would stop pretending like we live on a ball orbiting a star. We live on a disc, and Australia is on the tails side, and we each have a star, like a sexy flaming-ball-of-gas Sandwich..

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Good, good, that the best test for star identification

[–] tasty4skin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] tasty4skin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] onTerryO@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

It was a classroom smash.

[–] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

You could argue that it's based on semantics, though. If you go by a different definition of star, more colloquially, planets like Venus and Mars are visible as "stars" in our solar system.

[–] TinfoilBeanieTech@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Dihydrogen Monoxide should be banned.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

And hydric acid too!

[–] kewko 4 points 2 years ago

!Hydro homies@lemmy.ml is coming for you

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The funniest part is nobody officially recognizes this as a name.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago

Bullshit.

Hydrogen atoms per water molecules: 2

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

God damn it

[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

The craziness thing about all of this is that there is actually such a thing as "a metric cup"

[–] critical@reddthat.com 19 points 2 years ago

At least twice as much!

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only if you're counting atoms. There's more oxygen by weight.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Don't mol shame.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

There are more reposts of this meme than there are stars in the entire Solar System.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, that’s true in our solar system.

[–] doctordevice@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] coco@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Toyota hydrogen V8 for the win !!!

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