• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There can be a release of energy without oxygen, but it will not result in a fire, just an explosion. You can make arguments for things like the sun “burning” in the vacuum of space, but that is fusion, and a far different thing than lighting a match.

        • flambonkscious
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          1 year ago

          That never makes sense to me!

          It blows my mind, really. My own intuitive understanding of gravity just doesn’t extend to that kind of reality (he says with a broken collar bone due to essentially ‘too much gravity’)

          • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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            The really serious trouble with reality has always been that it is under no obligation to make sense to random hominids