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Yes but water touches itself. Abortion ain't murder though.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 92 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Critical hit! It's super effective!

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[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If that's true then holy water is a lie

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[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week 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.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

well it is superior

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week 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!

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

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

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

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

[–] onyxjet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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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[–] mlegstrong@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week 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.

[–] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

A single drop has over 1.5 sextillion molecules (21 zeroes), so yeh even a single drop is wet, debates over cuz allow it.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week 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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[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (2 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?

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week 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

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week 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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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 19 points 1 week 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.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week 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.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week 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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[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week 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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[–] ProtoShark@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week 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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