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Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms (mander.xyz)

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[-] pigup@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Maybe after the first few mental breakdowns, they could have maybe just gone on the internet may be kind of like, I don't know, learned more. So they were saying they were just so sure that they could accidentally split atoms and they didn't question why there weren't nuclear explosions going off at every restaurant hundreds of thousands of times per day.

Edit: /s for the simpletons below 👇

[-] SharkyAttack@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

You understand that there are a lot of people alive before the internet existed, right? And if this person is relating a story from their childhood, and they’re anywhere over like 35 years old, us old people couldn’t just “go on the internet”.

[-] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

And even if you did go on the internet, there wouldnt be any answer to the prompt "does chewing salad risk splitting atoms" on yahoo or altavista. The search engines where not "smart" enough to parse deeper in the question nor where there enough "random trivia" answers online