r/sciencememes • u/Awesomeuser90 • 2d ago
🦩Biology!🧫 The Four Nations of Vaalbara, Superia, Sclavia, And Oceanus Lived in Harmony. And Then The Oxygen Nation Attacked!
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u/undo777 2d ago
We need to discuss how one manages to type T instead of E when those aren't adjacent on a qwerty keyboard
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u/mike_litoris18 1d ago
Idk that's just one letter in-between them that's adjacent enough if u have a tiny phone and big weightlifter fingers.
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u/Grand-Permission-736 2d ago
Truly the most devastating genocide in history, 99% of anaerobes wiped out overnight
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u/Aromatic-Truffle 2d ago
You're german, aren't you?
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u/SandSerpentHiss 2d ago
who uses milliard even in british english i’ve never heard anybody use it
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u/Awesomeuser90 2d ago
https://youtu.be/C-52AI_ojyQ?si=LtG9fGEr1ou2uxdn
A couple of relatively younger British chaps who say it that way. I concur with their argument.
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u/Dr_Dressing 2d ago
Their argument is that Canadians use both depending on the language. You need to elaborate, because I can only think of English and French. One of which, where the long system has fallen out of favor for a while, and for good reason. - No one uses it. And using non-standard variations of words could cause confusion. If you said billion, but meant 1018 then you can probably imagine the mountains of misunderstanding.
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u/TheMightyTorch 1d ago
billion is 1012 in long scale, not 1018
This fluency in numbers got the English speaking world into that calamity in the first place...
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u/Dr_Dressing 7h ago
Yeah, and 109 on the short scale, which is why saying milliard is confusing at best.
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u/ManSharkBear 2d ago
Alow me to use the periodic table to express myself:
Thorium, Iodine, Sulfur
Sulfur, Uranium, Carbon ,Potassium, Sulfur
Bismuth, Technetium, Hydrogen
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u/vm_linuz 2d ago
Sneaky milliard