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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 51 points 3 days ago

I knew someone who utterly refused to believe that dinosaurs weren't the first organisms in existence. He literally thought it was dinosaurs, then there was an asteroid impact and then basically humans arrived about 10 minutes later.

People have absolutely no understanding of the immense amount of time that has existed before we came along.

Mind he also gave me that whole if earth was 1 cm closer to the sun, we would all burn up malarkey, so maybe he's just an idiot.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 22 points 2 days ago

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System.

I wonder if they would ever understand this, or just think it's a cool fact.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

There are the same number of hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water as there is stars in the entire solar system.

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago

We living in a binary star system that I didn't know about?

[-] Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I guess it's possible, there is a hypothesis that the solar system has a second faint red or brown dwarf star orbiting in the furthest outskirts of the solar system. I'm not sure I buy this hypothesis though, there is so little evidence. And it would be one of the more strange binary systems out there (binary stars are usually close together).

[-] citizensongbird@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for the acknowledgement, always nice to meet a fan.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago
[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago

A LOT of the "misunderstandings" about the world stem from people having nonreal concept of numbers. Especially anything that is rural vs urban and population. People who know everyone in their 900 person town have no concept of the million large city nearby. Also money, which creates the whole "I can work hard and become a millionaire" idiocy. Like ok, if you work your entire life and spend nothing but absolute basics you might have a million or two in savings, when you die.

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