The H3 Day Thread (03/28)

This morning’s thread is brought to you by the letter H and the number 3.

Yes, H3 will doubtlessly bring to mind the H3, the smallest in the Hummer SUV line:

H3 is also the name of a launch vehicle (rocket) currently in use by Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A successful test flight was recently made in February of this year.

source: JAXA

For many long years, the Avocado has (I assume) neglected the former US Vice President Hubert Humphrey; did you know that his full name was Hubert Horatio Humphrey? He was defeated in the 1968 presidential election by Richard Nixon, after serving as Lyndon Johnson’s vice president from 1965.

And what would this world be without molecules? It turns out that there is something called triatomic hydrogen, or H3. As one might expect, it consists simply of three hydrogen atoms. Apparently H3 is unstable and only exists very briefly under certain conditions, though those conditions are not uncommon, so it does appear–however instantaneously–with some regularity.

<h3>Have a good Thursday!</h3>