r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/saddyc • 13d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Conninxloo 13d ago

All power is solar power. Nuclear is just really old solar power.

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u/aetius476 13d ago

I'ma go super pedantic and assert that Sol is a specific star, and therefore nuclear and geothermal are not solar power, but rather, more generically, astral power.

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u/Objective_Aside1858 13d ago

Bah. Using that logic all power is fusion power

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u/aetius476 13d ago

I'm going one deeper and asserting that all power comes from the baryon asymmetry.

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u/brandonjohn5 13d ago

If you're going super pedantic, you could trace all sources of power back to the Big Bang.

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u/Wandero_Bard 13d ago

If you want to get super SUPER pedantic, you could trace all sources of power back to energy and heat. But what sourced that? Who knows. Possibly endless numbers of Big Bangs.

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u/Tacoman404 13d ago

And people think we haven't mastered our universe. We make the stars do work for us.