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Anon finds a glitch (thelemmy.club)
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[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 97 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe you just gotta piston pound your balls for yourself, comrade.

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