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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 day agoA single atom wouldn’t even be worse than, like, a pop rock anyway. You need a whole mess of them motherfuckers to make a big boom.
minus-squareicelimit@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 day agoIf I accidentally bite an atom and the tiny shards shatters nearby atoms, wouldn’t that just make more? Like sort of… a chain reaction ? Maybe I just have to gobble up all my salad before all the booms blow my jaws and neighbours away.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 day agoI think your jaw would have to be made of tungsten or something for that to happen, but I’m not a physist; I’ve just played one in a video game. 🤷♂️
A single atom wouldn’t even be worse than, like, a pop rock anyway. You need a whole mess of them motherfuckers to make a big boom.
If I accidentally bite an atom and the tiny shards shatters nearby atoms, wouldn’t that just make more? Like sort of… a chain reaction ?
Maybe I just have to gobble up all my salad before all the booms blow my jaws and neighbours away.
I think your jaw would have to be made of tungsten or something for that to happen, but I’m not a physist; I’ve just played one in a video game. 🤷♂️