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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Knives are also made of atoms

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure? How many? Because I have some atoms at home and need a new knife

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least 50

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Boy, that's alot!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

but an alot of atoms is just a regular old alot..!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Not this knife

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Call that a knife?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't eat fissile cucumbers.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

One of these nerds is not like the others,
One of these geeks just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which nerd is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I don't like Tyson because I feel he preaches an inaccurate version of the scientific philosophy. So many times I hear him saying things along the lines of absolute certainty, because it's SCIENCE.

Where, we of the true faith, preach: the evidence indicates that this is the most likely to be true, or at least, this model makes predictions about the world more reliably than any other we currently have.

Amen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tyson? Why not cause he's an asshole? Are you aware that both Einstein and Hawkings were also assholes?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

While Einstein and Hawking (no s) were giants of their field, published papers that turned all other accepted science on its head, and have basic physical phenomenon of the Universe named after them, they were surprisingly limited in their knowledge of other fields. Whereas NdT will expound on absolutely any topic with the complete certainty that he is a fucking expert, even if he only just now inferred the existence of the thing from the question he is presently being asked. He is a Mycroftian megabrain of galactic proportions, a fact he appreciates better than anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But they weren't pretentious know-it-alls on TV and YT

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, that knife isn't made of atoms, that knife is made of pure solid quarks. That's why it can cut atomic nuclei.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I choose to believe it's made of small atoms, the kind you get from firing a shrink ray at something.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

They call me Johnny Smallatoms

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We're gonna need a community for comedy homicide for this. That last panel ruins it.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Then he went on to make lemonade with strawberries and heavy water. Deuterium, you get me? Strawberry fusion lemonade.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (8 children)

No I don’t get it. But I would like to. Is this one of those scenarios where three physicists walk into a bar, each one tells a joke but none of it are funny so no one gets it?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And that's how we got bubbles in beer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm glad someone else remembers that movie.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's gotta be the sharpest knife in existence having a diameter of half an atom...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

That's a 4D knife.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

When I was a kid, I was legitimately afraid of this

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

And that's why you don't see cooking mouse no more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sad to not see more comments about The Subtle Knife. This is a great meme for that concept!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

reminds me of yahoo serious splitting a beer atom with a chisel in his shed. young einstein, what a fun movie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Let me atom *

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