r/BeAmazed • u/AfterLife-er • Dec 13 '24

Science Inside Chernobyl, scientists have discovered a black fungus feeding on deadly gamma radiation.

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u/SCMatt65 Dec 13 '24

Kinda, and in some ways even technically but it’s a little like saying a blast furnace is basically the same stuff as a candle. The difference in energy and intensity is kind of the whole point.

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u/Jnyl2020 Dec 15 '24

A blast furnace and a candle has no similarity except the cylindrical shape.

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u/SCMatt65 Dec 15 '24

They’re both sources of heat.

You wouldn’t be very good at Connections! lol

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u/Jnyl2020 Dec 15 '24

Which has nothing to do with their purposes.

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u/SCMatt65 Dec 15 '24

Ok? We weren’t talking about the purposes of light and gamma radiation, we were talking about their characteristics.

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u/Jnyl2020 Dec 15 '24

Gamma rays are photons. Just the same thing.

Comparing that with blast furnaces vs candles is just stupid. They have nothing in common besides being cylindrical. And they give off heat too, which is not their purpose. 

Humans emit heat too. By this logic you could compare humans vs carrots too. Still stupid, but at least they are kinda the same thing. An organism that works almost the same way.

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u/SCMatt65 Dec 15 '24

Yes, you’re starting to get it. Saying a candle and a blast furnace are similar is an extreme exaggeration, much like saying, wait for it, light and gamma radiation are basically the same thing. It’s called sarcasm, which is often lost on the pedantic.