Rest in Plasma

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• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  America might have 50 states of matter, but we certainly don’t have 50 states that matter. Looking at you Delaware.

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  • Neato@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Coming hard at Delaware when places like Wyoming and Nebraska exist.

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    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aren’t there like 27 states of matter?

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends how you define them, and we keep finding more. If there’s anything the universe hates, it’s perfect categories.

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• Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, here in Germany we have something called “Saarland”. Nobody knows quite what it’s good for.

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you know glass is its own state? You’re welcome for the daily dose of WTF

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  • Neato@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • sleep_deprived@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I learned that after reading this xkcd and then the list. Which was concerningly recently.

      I guess on the bright side it was the only misconception on the list that I had.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s ok not every country can really experience with ice VII

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• blakeus12@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🤓☝️

  but what about plasma!!!1!!1!1!!!1!1!1!1!1!1

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  • Neato@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With this one simple bomb trick, you too can have plasma in your country!

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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”.

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• Frogodendron@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And if those three are mostly hydrocarbons, prepare to enter the state of war.

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  • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whoa... whoa... whoa!

    I think you mean a state of coerced freedom!

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• nicolauz@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  youtu.be/184eP_KuXek?feature=shared

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