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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's 2 > 1, so correct two hydrogens versus one star: Sol

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are more memes estimating the size of the universe than there are stars in the galaxy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Solar system.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With greater hydrogen comes greater responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Like twice as much

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Most people have more balls than there are stars in our solar system.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, are you counting ovaries?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

The average human has somewhere between 1.1 and 1.4 testicles.

Late edit: I was not sober when I wrote this and I definitely did the math wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

How are you averaging the humans? Or are you averaging testicles?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering 50% of the population doesn't have testicles, the average being over 1 indicates that there are a few million people with 3 testicles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But there are also many men with one or zero probably more than people with three so it should probably net to less then 1 average. Unless you count prosthetic testis in the total.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're counting prosthetics, then there could be one guy really bringing up the average.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Testicles Georg is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Is this because of intersex conditions or something? Or just a number you pulled out of your ~~ass~~ balls?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

I skipped reading the word stars, and I thought it was deliberately wrong to rile people up.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Petition to classify Pluto as a star

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

petition granted

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

We can just add it to Jupiter.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

There actually are more molocules of H2O in 10 drops of water than there are stars in the observable universe.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Also interesting: If you were to take your nerves out and lay them end on end you would die.

Actually interesting factYour height is closer in scale to a light second than the size of an atom. And yet atoms seem more approachable than light seconds. Fascinating stuff!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"You are technically correct, the best kind of correct."

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