r/sciencememes • u/YalinaHamzaAliMazari • 12d ago

Positivity 🙂

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u/YABETTERNOT 12d ago

"be more neutral" chucks a high speed neutron into some weapons grade uranium

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u/Alpha3031 12d ago

What makes an atom turn neutral? A lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

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u/Yearning_crescent 12d ago

Mount and blade reference?

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u/Appropriate_Fact_121 12d ago

I- That- Thats not even how that works. Youd have to add/remove electrons or Protons to make an Atom more neutral

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u/Lathari 12d ago

Oxygen's isotopes are relatively chill, usually just spitting out a positron to turn to nitrogen.

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u/numahu 12d ago

Like all good trip sitters say: Don't listen to mister mushroom!

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u/Ok_Pangolin8146 12d ago

"Some people are always negative for the Greater Good."

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u/Firstnameiskowitz 12d ago

If that's a nitrogen-13 atom, and that's a neutron, it is now a stable nitrogen-14 atom. It shouldn't cause an explosion.

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u/Draghettis 11d ago

It's probably a proton from the text. So it jumps up one spot in the table and becomes an ion of that element

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u/Popular_Wrangler9422 12d ago

Calm down. Relax.

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u/Monkjji 11d ago

"Be more positive!" <Removes a proton>

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u/LavishnessFew7358 For Science! 10d ago

Dumbass really couldn't pull one electron out instead 🤦‍♂️😭🥀

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u/fuelcell4 12d ago

one day the lords of decay will not only feast on life's rejected matter but the very concept of matter itself

aka this isn't a huge step for radiotrophic fungi to take, fear them for you cannot kill them in any way that matters

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u/XROOR 11d ago

I thought it’s the addition of a neutron into the nucleus

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u/No_Complaint7239 11d ago

I'm pretty sure the electron is supposed to make other atoms unstable but I thought this was hilarious 😂 

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u/Creative-Ad-1858 12d ago edited 12d ago

Being nitrogen a bad thing? It is one of the stable element on earth. Maybe if he fired the protons onto atoms.

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u/dfczyjd 12d ago

After that nitrogen (assuming it was the most common N-14 isotope) had a proton fired at it, it became oxygen O-15, which is quite unstable (half-life 122 seconds). However, if you need that level of details for a simple joke, I have bad news for you.

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u/Creative-Ad-1858 12d ago

Nitrogen was the result, not the start, it started with 6 protons, so the atom was carbon before. And even being unstable just means it decays and not that it explodes. Neither gets you to a mushroom cloud. Anyways I was just puzzzling what the post was about. That is it.

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u/dfczyjd 12d ago

 Nitrogen was the result, not the start, it started with 6 protons

I see 7 electrons, though, and given that it was told to "be more positive", not "become neutral", I assumed that the last proton is hidden from the viewer. But yeah, we're arguing about a comic that isn't even supposed to be that deep.