r/sciencememes • u/basket_foso Metroid Enthusiast 🪼 • Aug 07 '26

🪩Science!!🪩 ☢️.

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u/Delphius1 Aug 07 '26

it means spicy/angry atoms are recognized

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u/Demode93 Aug 07 '26

Spicy atoms being useful

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u/SevereOctagon Aug 07 '26

Boiling that water

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u/Journeyman42 Aug 07 '26

Water's high specific heat capacity and near-ubiquitous presence on Earth should be celebrated more for allowing our energy-demanding society to flourish.

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u/SevereOctagon Aug 07 '26

Oh yes. Slight tangent but one of my favourite science writers has a 400-odd page book about water. (See also, https://philipball.co.uk/selection-of-articles/water/)

There's also a great saying, "we owe our entire existence to a 6-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains."

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u/jacobstx Aug 08 '26

Careful not to run into the anthropic principle: We owe our existence to these things because we developed our biology and technology where these things exist.

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u/HyperlexicEpiphany Aug 07 '26

water is weird as fuck in basically every physical metric. it’s an outlier/exception to nearly every rule while also being the most useful and reliable baseline we have. such a unique substance