• dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours 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.

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      20 hours ago

      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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      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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        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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      Nah. I remember back in high-school there were some who “disproved” the 3rd law of motion by pushing a door closed and saying that they didn’t go backwards.
      I didn’t care to engage them in debate.