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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Knives are also made of atoms

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    • lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        At least 50

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    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Call that a knife?

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    • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not this knife

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    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Atomception

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    • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Some are smaller than others

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        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, but they were of 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 megabrain of galactic proportions, a fact he appreciates better than anyone else.

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      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Carrolade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t eat fissile cucumbers.

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • androogee@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They call me Johnny Smallatoms

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      • scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        How big was that knife originally?!

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  • parlaptie@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      !comedyhomicide@lemmy.world

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  • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s easy to explain, having cut a lot of cucumbers in my life. Since the actual nucleus of an atom is much smaller than the atom including its electrons itself, the probability of hitting the protons or neutrons is so small, that I’d need to live for a few thousand years and cut 1 cucumber per second nonstop, before this scenario happens even once. It is not impossible, just very improbable.

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    • webpack@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      (assuming your post isn’t a joke) it is impossible to cause a nuclear reaction by cutting cucumbers.

      the biggest innacuracy in this comic is that as the panel zooms in on the cucumber atoms, the knife looks exactly the same. if it was realistic it would just be a bunch of metal atoms pushing aside a bunch of cucumber atoms, not a sharp knife slicing through individual atoms.

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      • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Bro, you should sharpen your knives.

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      • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Maybe it’s not zooming in. Maybe the atoms of the cucumber are getting bigger! 😏

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      • beetsnuami@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well… that, and one nucleus splitting in half wouldn‘t start a chain reaction in a cucumber, and therefore not release a macroscopically noticeable amount of energy.

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      • averyminya@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The Subtle Knife is definitely so sharp that it cuts through dimensions, so I think it would cut atoms.

        So really that just means it’s not inaccurate, it’s just a very specific, fictional knife!

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    • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fission doesn’t happy because we cut atoms in half. Fission happens because we blast enriched uranium with neutrons, the uranium absorbs a neutron, gets too heavy, and falls apart.

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      • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s just one way to do it.

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    • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I know very little about physics and I’m pretty sure you could cut cucumbers with a knife until the end of time and you’ll never trigger a nuclear explosion.

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    • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s also why cats are afraid of cucumbers.

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    • NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Actually, it’s because cucumbers are so cool (c.f. cool as a cucumber) that they’re in a ground state. It’s actually endothermic to split their atoms so you don’t get a chain reaction.

      Cutting hot vegetables, habernaros for example, is much more risky and adequate precautions should always be taken to avoid radioactivity contaminating sensitive regions of the body.

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      • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I thought the only option with cucumbers is to keep mashing them together until fusion, no?

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    • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ok if it is theoretically possible to cut atoms bay using metal knives then why didn’t ever a fission happen? I mean if you combine all knife cutting in the whole world since knives exist, the probability should be pretty high.

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      • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well, it probably happened an infinite amount of times already. But the resulting cucumber-detonation just triggers a new Big Bang. We’re on the whatever-millionth reset now. Should end any day now. STOP CUTTING CUCUMBERS, SHEEPLE!!

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      • allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean, this happened once: iaea.org/…/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-…

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    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But what would you do with the sliced cucumbers of millenia?

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      • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Dunno. I guess growing them fast enough would also be a problem.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Someone let Einstein loose, we must admit that violence is on occasion the only recourse.

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    • apocalypticat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re assuming the blade would be thinner than the nucleus, at the very least.

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Okay, now explain bananas.

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      • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well, that’s why we generally eat bananas without cutting. As everyone knows, bananas are slightly radioactive. This increases the danger when cutting them exponentially, so don’t do that.

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    • Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The electromagnetic force from the atoms’ respective electron cloud probably help prevent atom get close to each other. And the strong nuclear force also help prevent atom from splitting.

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      • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You mean I’m just not cutting strong enough?

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    • Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not with that attitude.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re doing it wrong. The mouse just diced a cucumber really, really l, small.

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • portuga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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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      • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The moment I wrote it, I was hearing it in the voice of Benny Safdie in his first scene as weirdo Edward Teller, in “Oppenheimer”.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is that what killed that girl at Panera a while back?

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  • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And that’s how we got bubbles in beer.

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    • Thteven@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m glad someone else remembers that movie.

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      • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        God, I saw it in the theater. That theater was almost completely empty.

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      • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        *chop “damn.” *chop “damn.” *cho -BOOM

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  • Razzazzika@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Doesn’t have to be sharp. It could be extremely fast.

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  • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s a 4D knife.

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  • ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • insufferableninja@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Let me atom *

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  • averyminya@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • Backlog3231@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That was a great series. I should reread it soon.

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  • Clarity_daffodil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hawking, my guy, why have you forsaken us? 🥺 I believed in you

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