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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Critical hit! It's super effective!

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Driving east from Thunder Bay, once you hit Wawa, ON and head south you're right on the shoreline for a bit, and it's fucking amazing.

First time I drove that I just wanted to pull over and take some pics but there's nowhere to stop.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

unless theres more than one molecule of water, its touching itself

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If that's true then holy water is a lie

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had no idea that a lake could be so saucy with the comebacks. Glad to hear that it lives up to its name.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

well it is superior

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Getting into a political argument with a lake account. The lake account using 1st person language as Lake Superior.

Our ancestors would marvel at our reality!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know, getting into arguments with sentient geo/hydrological features seems like the kind of thing our ancestors would have done

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Water deities in ancient mythologies: Am I a joke to you?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The lake account using 1st person language as Lake Superior.

Are you suggesting that account isn't Lake Superior's account? Clearly lakes microblog.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

A single molecule of water is not wet but as soon as more then one molecule is present the water is then wet. That is my hill to die on in this argument.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

I disagree. Mixing water and another liquid does not make the second liquid "wet" - it makes a mixture. Then if you apply that mixture to a solid the solid becomes wet until the liquid leaves through various processes and becomes dry. If that process is evaporation, the air does not become wet it becomes humid.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If there is two molecules of water which one is the dry molecule and which one is the wet molecule?

If there are three molecules does one get divided in half to make the other two wet or does only one get wet and one stays dry until a fourth arrives?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If there are*

And they both get wet, since they're both touching other water molecules. As goes for any other number above one. All of this is very obvious.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Wwweeeeeeeellllllll see, water is also touching itself constantly. Something being wet is a material surrounded by water, like the fibers of a sponge surrounded by water, in example.

In water, every water molecule is surrounded by water molecules. This means every given water molecule can be considered wet. And thus water is wet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If I have a single water molecule then it is still water but it isn’t touching any other water molecule, thus it isn’t wet

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Exactly. So the only instance water is dry, and thus not wet, is if it's a single lonely molecule.

But water tends to come in herds, so that basically never happens.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You fucking idiots. Real ones know wetness is how much vermouth it has in it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Churchill apocryphally liked his martinis so dry that he would observe the bottle of vermouth while pouring the gin, and that was enough

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh please someone argue this with me!

I love semantic bs!

Water is touching water, so therefore water is wet!

Not that Thomas isn't a piece of shit regardless.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting

Wetting is the ability of a liquid to displace gas to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together.[1] These interactions occur in the presence of either a gaseous phase or another liquid phase not miscible with the wetting liquid.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I was not expecting something I could not understand

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Basically, the process of making something wet requires a liquid (usually water) to actually stick to it, through intermolecular forces. That's slightly more narrow a requirement than the "needs to touch water" that's commonly thrown around. A lotus flower or water repellent jacket doesn't get wet, even if you spray water on it, the droplets don't actually stick to the surface.

Now, water molecules stick to each other as well, that's called surface tension. But wetness, at least in physics, is defined at an interface between two mediums, a liquid and a solid, or two liquids that don't mix

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Saying water is wet because it touches water sounds like "Fire is on fire because it touches fire". It just sounds fundamentally illogical as you're talking about a state of matter, not the matter itself.

I'm not a scientist, just throwing in my view on this

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yes, what water touches is wet. you'll never guess what water is always touching

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, it touches everything, water has issues with boundaries and consent.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

water isnt wet bro it just makes everything it touches wet but i SWEAR its not wet bro pls just believe me i have to be right its not wet

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