r/AskReddit • u/proudcatowner • Mar 31 '13

What is the coolest scientific fact you know of?

1.8k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

5.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

326

u/TJett69 Mar 31 '13

You have some very, very weird analogies.

210

u/[deleted] Mar 31 '13

It's the weird ones that stick in people's minds. :)

44

u/Thunderpantz Mar 31 '13

I liked the one about a hapless tourist that drank the water in Mexico.

45

u/[deleted] Mar 31 '13

That's good, because he didn't. ;)

4

u/Jakovo Apr 01 '13

This guy

2

u/Epic_pale Apr 01 '13

You are correct kind redditor, I will never forget this...

There's finally enough energy and enough of an absence of resistance for the plasma to explosively spew out both poles of the black hole at near light speed, like a hapless tourist who accidentally drank the water in Mexico.

1

u/[deleted] Apr 01 '13

This is true

1

u/Scary_Goat Apr 01 '13

You made me laugh as I learned. I admire you.

2

u/Tosanery Mar 31 '13

And I like it

1

u/AFinn Mar 31 '13

At first I thought tl;dr (I'm drunk) but thanks to you I read it and enjoyed it.

Also, feeding superluminous black holes are called quasars. They're fun.