Comment on Someone help me make a 'transition metals' joke here...

NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Come on bud, be a proper alloy!

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• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Found the cosmologist.

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  • lledrtx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that joke that on a cosmic level, it’s mostly hydrogen and helium (?) so others get ignored, like how genders other than the usual 2 get ignored? If so, that’s so smart and funny, wow.

    Or is it something else that I’m not getting?

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    • jamhandy@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty much, the universe is hydrogen, helium, and rounding errors.

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    • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. Cosmologists work at the largest scale and often simplify regular matter down to hydrogen (“gas”) and everything else (“metal”).

      So if you ever see a reference to the “metallicity” of a star, that can include the presence of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc… which chemists of course would never refer to as metals.

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• umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, there are more elements. But there are only two elements there is an infinite supply of in the universe, Hydrogen and Stupidity, and we’re not sure about Hydrogen. /forgot whose joke this was

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  • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The internet says it is an Einstein quote.

    Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

    I am betting like most quotes attributed to him that it is made up though.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This one’s unproven. Given the quotability, I’m gonna say if he really did say it we’d know for sure.

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