Comment on nooo my genderinos

ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would wager you have more of an idea of what a state of matter is than biologists do of what a species is. Humans like to put things into nest boxes but nature is under no deal obligation to cooperate.

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• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  An abstraction used for grouping kinds of things together for the purposes of making thinking about them a lot faster.

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• la508@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can I offer you a nice smectic B3 liquid crystal in this trying time?

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  • MycelialMass@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You may not.

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• axont@hexbear.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah i have a bachelor’s in chemistry and I remember a professor earnestly saying the phrase “metallic phase nitrogen” and I think I went home and stared at the ceiling for an hour

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Loads of pressure? Even Quarks get metallic with more pressure.

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    • axont@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah apparently there’s metallic nitrogen in the Earth’s core

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Simple, “solid state” means “no moving parts”, like a vacuum tube, for example.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’d be surprised.

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well I know the liquid phase is what happened after I ate at that filthy pizza place. Yikes.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Could there be a spherical object inside that tube? Just for familiarities sake

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    • TomasEkeli@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only if it’s a cow

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are gas atoms spherical?

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Interacting fields of possibilities?

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