Me: That doesn't seem right. OH. Oh, I am stupid.
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Not stupid. Our brain can just get tripped up sometimes and read what it expects to read instead of what's really there. The sad part is that there are educated people in the US even today that would be surprised or even argue against you if you stated the other version (more atoms in a glass than in our galaxy). Our science education is woefully lacking now.
What blew me away that I learned not too long ago is the notion that if the galaxy was the size of the US, our solar system would be the size of a fingerprint. Try to even visualize that. (reference is the Epic Spaceman YT channel)
NGL our solar system being the size of a finger print is (somehow) bigger than I expected.
Another fun size thing I heard recently was that if an atom were the size of a football stadium then the nucleus would be the size of a pea.
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Click here if you don't understand
There is only one star in our solar system - the Sun.
And if you somehow still don't get it, click here
Meanwhile, there are two hydrogen atoms in a water molecule - H~2~O
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There are more memes estimating the size of the universe than there are stars in the galaxy.
Solar system.
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Most people have more balls than there are stars in our solar system.
I have a dog, so I'm bringing up the average. We've got (dog-sare) tennis balls galore!
Wait, are you counting ovaries?
The average human has somewhere between 1.1 and 1.4 testicles.
Late edit: I was not sober when I wrote this and I definitely did the math wrong.
How are you averaging the humans? Or are you averaging testicles?
Considering 50% of the population doesn't have testicles, the average being over 1 indicates that there are a few million people with 3 testicles.
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Not Hitler though.
Petition to classify Pluto as a star
Even with the +200 other dwarf planets we wouldn't get there.
Where is there? 2?
The statement of the post.
Dwarf planets wouldn't change the equation
There are 2 hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water and there is 1 star in our entire solar system. 2>1.
If you have 2 stars, you'd have 2=2
No, there can be only 1.
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We can just add it to Jupiter.
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"You are technically correct, the best kind of correct."
I couldn’t find the clip, but first thing that came to mind was the StarTalk Live with Buzz Aldrin and John Hodgman.
Hodgman: “maybe they’ll find H 2 2 2 2 O!”
Edit: crap, I have to call myself out. I failed to read completely, thought the screenshotted poster accidentally changed one part of the comparison, instead of deliberately changing both parts. If the original was molecules in a cubic inch of water vs stars in the observable universe, I read this post as atoms in a molecule vs stars in the observable universe.
Apologies, I discovered I was a fool and was excited to share my discovery.
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There might even be more hydrogen atoms in one molecule of water, than there are universes we live in!