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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 44 points 3 months ago

Not stupid. Our brain can just get tripped up sometimes and read what it expects to read instead of what's really there. The sad part is that there are educated people in the US even today that would be surprised or even argue against you if you stated the other version (more atoms in a glass than in our galaxy). Our science education is woefully lacking now.

What blew me away that I learned not too long ago is the notion that if the galaxy was the size of the US, our solar system would be the size of a fingerprint. Try to even visualize that. (reference is the Epic Spaceman YT channel)

[-] Gormadt 16 points 3 months ago

NGL our solar system being the size of a finger print is (somehow) bigger than I expected.

Another fun size thing I heard recently was that if an atom were the size of a football stadium then the nucleus would be the size of a pea.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

A fingerprint? That's actually bigger than I figured.

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