• RustedSwitch@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The chimps evolution one is really a matter of semantics. Evolving from a shared ancestry is a different way of saying the same thing.

  • hsinner@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Glass is absolutely an amorphous solid, and over time glass windows will start to deform. You can see it in some of the older buildings in Europe that are hundreds of years old.

  • hardypart@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I would say the pasta one is debatable. The starch in the pasta is supposed to make the sauce thicker and thus more sticky. This won’t happen when the starch is trapped in oil.

  • IndigoAmber@social.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    @atheist
    It’s not just the insufficient velocity that makes the penny non-lethal. It’s the combination of the velocity together with its low mass. A 30 to 50 mph fast and 10 lb heavy penny could definitely kill you.

    Humans and dinosaurs do coexist right now, today: birds are (technically) dinosaurs.

  • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The banana statment is complete nonsense. Herb nor Tree has any scientific meaning. The whole sheet is a bunch of petty pedantic gotcha at best and just wrong at worst.

    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      What are you talking about? The literal difference between a herb and a tree is the presence of wood. This isn’t referring to the culinary term for herb, it’s referring to the short version of the botanical term “herbaceous”, which are plants that aren’t lignified, aka they don’t have a woody stem like trees or shrubs do. The terms absolutely do have scientific meaning. Banana plants do not have woody stems, hence they are herbs, aka herbaceous plants. In general terms we call them trees, but in a botanical sense they aren’t the same thing.

  • Stitch0815@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Since it`s a bit misleading. Salty water boils slower since a higher temperature is needed. Also if you boil pasta you should get the water to ~sea water saltieness

    • gigachad@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Something that always confused me, as the water seems to react with bubbles when I throw salt into it. My theory is that little amount of energy gets released when the ion grid structure is broken up, but still boiling point is higher for salted water. Could absolutely be bullshit… maybe someone can explain?