The scale shows it being 20 microns in width, so it’s still pretty big, relative to individual atoms. A micron is 10^-6 meters while the width of a hydrogen atom is about 10^-10 meters.
Violins are traditional instruments of cinematic mourning, either as background melody or very famously used literally in Titanic where the orchestra kept playing right up until the ship went down (historically accurate).
Spongebob Squarepants later had a one-off gag where Mr. Krabs wanted to express insincere mourning, so he pulled out a finger-size violin and said something to the effect of “Oh boo hoo. Let me play you a sad song on the world’s tiniest violin”
Of course, being Spongebob Squarepants, the gag was executed so flawlessly that it was immediately seamlessly integrated into internet culture.
Turns out the internet has tons of people like them. People who state things authoritatively but are actually just saying things without doing any verification or checking.
Someone explain the joke pwease
It’s an electron microscope of a violin built with individual atoms, as in “I will play the smallest violin in sympathy”
Did they actually do this? That still looks like it would be a hell of a lot of “individual atoms”
Do we have 3D atom printers? Is that a thing?
The scale shows it being 20 microns in width, so it’s still pretty big, relative to individual atoms. A micron is 10^-6 meters while the width of a hydrogen atom is about 10^-10 meters.
Makes sense that the scale is wrong, because somebody on DeviantArt made it in Blender/Photoshop
Makes sense, because I’ve never seen a SEM image like that… I thought it could’ve been an older model
Electron microscope of the worlds smallest violin. A way of mocking other’s problems by pretending to pretend to care.
Violins are traditional instruments of cinematic mourning, either as background melody or very famously used literally in Titanic where the orchestra kept playing right up until the ship went down (historically accurate).
Spongebob Squarepants later had a one-off gag where Mr. Krabs wanted to express insincere mourning, so he pulled out a finger-size violin and said something to the effect of “Oh boo hoo. Let me play you a sad song on the world’s tiniest violin”
Of course, being Spongebob Squarepants, the gag was executed so flawlessly that it was immediately seamlessly integrated into internet culture.
It predates SpongeBob by quite a bit.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-sarcastic-worlds-smallest-violin
I was doing the world’s smallest violin thing in the early eighties as a kid…
the violin player that stayed to play was named Wallace Hartley and he was awesome.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Hartley
his (emotionally broken, never remarried )fiance eventually received his recovered violin and it later sold for 1.8m.
he’s now a sort of town hero from where he was from.
I think MASH put it in popular culture a long time earlier
Damn, thanks for the exhaustive explaination. The internet needs more people like you
Is inaccurate tho
Oh, damn
Turns out the internet has tons of people like them. People who state things authoritatively but are actually just saying things without doing any verification or checking.
!confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world
It appears to be the worlds tiniest violin.
Further explanation of the joke