America might have 50 states of matter, but it certainly doesn't have 50 states that matter. Looking at you Delaware.
44Coming hard at Delaware when places like Wyoming and Nebraska exist.
28Yeah I wanted to do an aside about whether Delaware was the correct choice, but I felt it was a bit excessive for a meme community.
I think your picks of Wyoming and Nebraska are evocative of a coastal-centric perspective though. Nebraska is quite large and has Omaha, easily taking it out of the bottom 5. Whereas Wyoming has... a large and beautiful expanse. Despite the lack of population, that sheer amount of terrain provides significant value by itself, but maybe not enough to escape the bottom 5. My personal second choice was Vermont, but I feel like Mississippi is potentially also in the mix.
I want to throw Rhode Island in but I feel like the historical significance has to be respected, despite its miniscule size.
Could also go with North Dakota. Woof.
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Oh, Delaware definitely matters. 68% of Fortune 500 companies and 93% of all US-based IPOs are all registered in Delaware. It's a tax haven.
8That's fair and I considered it, but I feel like that's almost the most damning aspect of Delaware. The only trivia anyone knows about the state is it's a tax haven; otherwise it is entirely unremarkable, both in public awareness and in fact.
I do respect those percentages though, that's totally fucked.
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Aren't there like 27 states of matter?
20Depends how you define them, and we keep finding more. If there's anything the universe hates, it's perfect categories.
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At what temperature does matter become Texas?
16At the moment of conception
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Well, here in Germany we have something called "Saarland". Nobody knows quite what it's good for.
11Pufferzone in case the froggies try something
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I think everything is either crystalline solid or fluid and nobody can convince me otherwise.
9It’s ok not every country can really experience with ice VII
9Do you know glass is its own state? You're welcome for the daily dose of WTF
7That's actually a myth. Glass is an amorphous solid. It exists the Glass Transition, which is where the solid changes from brittle to rubbery as it heats and begins to melt.
12I learned that after reading this xkcd and then the list. Which was concerningly recently.
I guess on the bright side it was the only misconception on the list that I had.
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Don't forget about Plasma! You'll get to 50, as well, in no time. ;)
6And if those three are mostly hydrocarbons, prepare to enter the state of war.
5Whoa... whoa... whoa!
I think you mean a state of coerced freedom!
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Your country has gas? America is on its way
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but what about plasma!!!!1!!1!1!!!1!1!1!1!1!1
2With this one simple
bombtrick, you too can have plasma in your country!3
Nah, if you go add the superheated, supercooled, amorphous, super-hight pressure, excited stuff and etc you can probably get there without even having to loose the definition of "matter".
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