- Number of hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water (H2O): 2
- Number of stars in our (ENTIRE) solar system: 1
That’s the joke.
Thanks, I never would have been able to understand 2>1 if you hadn’t written up that amazing power point slide.
Iits not a lot, but it’s crazy that it happened twice.
My autopilot brain kept skipping over molecule and missing the joke lol.
There are fewer hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are fingers on my hand.
Check and mate.
Ken M made a similar joke a while back right?
Obligatory “what about Jupiter”
Okay, I’ll bite. “what about it?”
It’s a Y-class brown dwarf star. Saturn likely is as well.
I’d say Jupiter would need to be about 3 times massive to count as one. And more realistically around 10ish.
Based on what criteria?
Jupiter is large enough for the hydrogen to become a plasma and dissolve the rocky “planetary” core that was once at the center. Morphologically, it has passed the transition from planet to star. Saturn appears to be somewhere along that transition and is harder to cleanly classify.
Morphologically, Jupiter is a star.
I’ve seen 13 MJ argued as a boundary, but it’s selected somewhat arbitrarily and based around idealized models of Deuterium fusion, which has never been observed, and which is a process these brown dwarves would only undergo for a brief flash in their early life. Deuterium isn’t abundant enough for its fusion to significantly alter the stellar morphology that has already become established for objects larger than Saturn. Saturn is our solarsystem’s example of an object that does not fit cleanly into one side or the other of a mass-based binary classification scheme for determining a hard boundary between “planet” and “star”. To understand what is a planet vs what is a star, study Saturn.
Infeel like this gets reposted here at least once a month, but this one has a different t pic, and way more likes
So do we not count the mini suns being created at places like Livermore Labs? 🤔
We can’t make plasma dense enough to have significant convention over radiance, and the longest active run is only a minute or so. We’re a good way away from plasma stable enough to be called a star, although it’s getting closer. Hydrogen bombs are probably the closest we have so far.
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Me: That doesn’t seem right. OH. Oh, I am stupid.
Not stupid. Our brain can just get tripped up sometimes and read what it expects to read instead of what’s really there. The sad part is that there are educated people in the US even today that would be surprised or even argue against you if you stated the other version (more atoms in a glass than in our galaxy). Our science education is woefully lacking now.
What blew me away that I learned not too long ago is the notion that if the galaxy was the size of the US, our solar system would be the size of a fingerprint. Try to even visualize that. (reference is the Epic Spaceman YT channel)
NGL our solar system being the size of a finger print is (somehow) bigger than I expected.
Another fun size thing I heard recently was that if an atom were the size of a football stadium then the nucleus would be the size of a pea.
The glass of water is a bit misleading. Your brain starts thinking about all the water molecules inside. That’s all.
That is a masterfully crafted mansplaining trap.
Chappeau.
Click here if you don't understand
There is only one star in our solar system - the Sun.
I really need to read better, I still thought it said galaxy.
Yes, the “if you don’t understand the joke” comment explains the joke. That’s the point.
It’s 2 > 1, so correct two hydrogens versus one star: Sol
O sole mio!
What about celebrities?
There are more memes estimating the size of the universe than there are stars in the galaxy.
Solar system.
You’ll have to prove this one.
Petition to classify Pluto as a star
petition granted
We can just add it to Jupiter.
Even with the +200 other dwarf planets we wouldn’t get there.
Where is there? 2?
The statement of the post.
Dwarf planets wouldn’t change the equation
There are 2 hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water and there is 1 star in our entire solar system. 2>1.
If you have 2 stars, you’d have 2=2
