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Anon finds a glitch (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 97 points 6 months ago (4 children)

this feels like a potentially sincere attempt to recruit people into an anti-science conspiracy movement - this doesn't really feel different than the kind of reasoning you see with moon landing denialists or flat earthers.

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  • [–] 116 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Eh I wouldn't take it too seriously, I'm pretty sure it's a play on the whole running joke of "saying something ridiculous, then end it with 'You guys don't seriously believe this right?!?'" type of thing. I've seen many of these greentexts that used that format recently.

    It's kinda funny to me because it loosely reminds me of same logic as those old rage comic "troll physics" memes like these:

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    ... Old?

    Rude.

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  • [–] 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    It's actually not a bad question, just one people don't really think about. Why does room temperature water sublimate evaporate?

    It's because the temperature is an average, and some molecules at the surface have enough energy to break their polar bonds.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Water doesn't sublimate. Sublimation is solid to gaseous phase change.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Technically, water does sublimate, just not at normal earth pressures. Below 0.6 kPa it transitions straight from solid to gas.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, evaporate would be the appropriate word here, while sublimate would be for room temperature ice, which I don't know if it is ice that does it or if there is a microscopic film of water that then evaporates.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I wanna say Bill Nye had a little contraption that explained this phenomenon. A cup with a piston on one end that vibrated. The top part of the cup had a ring in the center where little balls in the cup could fit. The piston represented the temperature (energy). Even at a lower temperature, some balls could randomly fly into the little hole and into the other partition. Turning the temperature up (increasing the speed and power of the piston) made more balls more frequently "evaporate." I wish I could find that demonstration again.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Im a lifelong flat earth denier

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