Aren’t there like 27 states of matter?
Rest in Plasma
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Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Depends how you define them, and we keep finding more. If there’s anything the universe hates, it’s perfect categories.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 1 year ago
Well, here in Germany we have something called “Saarland”. Nobody knows quite what it’s good for.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 year ago
Do you know glass is its own state? You’re welcome for the daily dose of WTF
Neato@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's actually a myth. Glass is an amorphous solid. It exists the Glass Transition, which is where the solid changes from brittle to rubbery as it heats and begins to melt.
sleep_deprived@lemmy.world 1 year ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s ok not every country can really experience with ice VII
blakeus12@hexbear.net 1 year ago
🤓☝️
but what about plasma!!!1!!1!1!!!1!1!1!1!1!1
Neato@kbin.social 1 year ago
With this one simple
bombtrick, you too can have plasma in your country!
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, if you go add the superheated, supercooled, amorphous, super-hight pressure, excited stuff and etc you can probably get there without even having to loose the definition of “matter”.
Frogodendron@beehaw.org 1 year ago
And if those three are mostly hydrocarbons, prepare to enter the state of war.
Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 1 year ago
Whoa... whoa... whoa!
I think you mean a state of coerced freedom!
nicolauz@feddit.de 1 year ago
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
America might have 50 states of matter, but we certainly don’t have 50 states that matter. Looking at you Delaware.
Neato@kbin.social 1 year ago
Coming hard at Delaware when places like Wyoming and Nebraska exist.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah I wanted to do an aside about whether Delaware was the correct choice, but I felt it was a bit excessive for a meme community.
I think your picks of Wyoming and Nebraska are evocative of a coastal-centric perspective though. Nebraska is quite large and has Omaha, easily taking it out of the bottom 5. Whereas Wyoming has… a large and beautiful expanse. Despite the lack of population, that sheer amount of terrain provides significant value by itself, but maybe not enough to escape the bottom 5. My personal second choice was Vermont, but I feel like Mississippi is potentially also in the mix.
I want to throw Rhode Island in but I feel like the historical significance has to be respected, despite its miniscule size.
lunarul@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh, Delaware definitely matters. 68% of Fortune 500 companies and 93% of all US-based IPOs are all registered in Delaware. It’s a tax haven.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah that’s fair and I considered it, but I felt like that’s almost the most damning aspect of Delaware. The only trivia anyone knows about that state is that it’s a tax haven, it’s otherwise entirely unremarkable, both in public awareness and in fact.
I do respect that percentages though, that’s totally fucked.