WanderWisley@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square266linkfedilinkarrow-up1261file-text
arrow-up1261imageWhat is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share?lemmy.worldWanderWisley@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square266linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareE_coli42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·1 month agoSharks are older than fire! It took billions of years for Earth to get the oxygen levels and fuel (land plants) needed for fire. Earth is the only place in the universe where we have seen fire.
minus-squareLumisal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoTo be fair we can’t see other planets outside the solar system too well.
minus-squarejambudz@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoStars are not combustion, so technically no.
minus-squareGlifted@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoStars are different fire? Nuclear fire?
minus-squarestoicmaverick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·30 days agoYou’d kinda have to define “fire”, which is harder than it sounds, but 100% sort-of.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoFalse! The Russians caught Mir on fire at least once. So fire has also been seen in low Earth orbit.
minus-squareisleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI don’t know. I can think of some space probes that were pretty fuckin’ fire.
minus-squareBreakerSwitch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoSharks are also older than the north star
Sharks are older than fire! It took billions of years for Earth to get the oxygen levels and fuel (land plants) needed for fire. Earth is the only place in the universe where we have seen fire.
To be fair we can’t see other planets outside the solar system too well.
None has the conditions for fire
Do stars not count as fire?
Stars are not combustion, so technically no.
Stars are different fire? Nuclear fire?
You’d kinda have to define “fire”, which is harder than it sounds, but 100% sort-of.
They do not
False! The Russians caught Mir on fire at least once. So fire has also been seen in low Earth orbit.
I don’t know. I can think of some space probes that were pretty fuckin’ fire.
Sharks are also older than the north star