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Submitted ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨bees@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    We’re 60% water and not really water-tight as it is.

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  • OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It would instead instantly make it extremely obvious how uneven my floor is.

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  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’d evaporate much quicker TBF. Although that also means that the BP would be much lower and tea and coffee wouldn’t be a thing and boiling wouldn’t be a reliable method of cooking. although on the flip side, you could increase the strength of alcoholic beverages by boiling the water off instead of distilling the alcohol.

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  • Fontasia@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Would it still be possible to have a shower?

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  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    if we lived in a high pressure environment, this totally would happen.

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  • spiffpitt@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    wouldn’t this evaporate extremely quick though?

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    • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I'll often spread spilled water across the table just so that it evaporates within a couple minutes.

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Must be nice living somewhere dry. I’d just end up with a moldy table a day later.

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  • Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can we make liquids like that? Sounds useful in some situations.

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    • ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes and no. No surface tension implies vanishing intermolecular forces, so the liquid would not be cohesive and would expand in all directions to the volume of the room… which is pretty much the definition of a gas. Not quite though: supercritical fluids also do this as long as temperature and pressure remain high enough, and are indeed useful in niche applications industrially.

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    • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Liquid with low to none surface tension? Relatively possivle, tensioactives and additives within soaps and washing up liquids can do that.

      And lakes affected by this are biologically damaged or dead, as surface tension is essntial to life.

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    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can not “make” a given liquid like that but there are some liquids with low surface tension. From the back of my head I remember the Avogadro experiment, but to lazy to look it up. What I recall is that he “counted” the amount of particles in a drop of oil because it forms a mini layer of lying on top of water. You might notice when you drop a bit of oil in water, that it always creates a giant puddle.

      Back to the original post: that thin layer of water would just evaporated instantly

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      • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        wouldn’t it alao be impossible to drink? The water would just seep out of any cup and find the path of least resistance to the floor

        At least with oil you can just raw dog the nozzle and squeeze it directly in, guzzling down those calories by the gallon at least until the attendant starts to run over, but then you pull out your lighter and shake your head until he backs off

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So it would actually be more practical, don’t need to mop it up if it evaporates.

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  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We would not have life! Water is a polar molecule that is very different from most other liquids. Its the specific surface tension properties that help to create life. The reason why we search for planets with water. We’ve never worked out a way for any life to exists without the amazing H2O.

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    • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now imagine what wonders we could have if there were a few other quicky molecules.

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      • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Every molecule is quirky in its own way…

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What if it just applied to chlorinated tap water then

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      • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As an odd thought experiment or are we hoping that the laws of physics might be different there? All water, except brand new in reaction space is almost certainly going to contain dissolved ions

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  • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can add a wetting agent to water to decrease the surface tension

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    • Robin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      wetter water

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      • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I know a guy who drank some WaterWetter and got pretty sick. He was an idiot.

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      • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Add more water

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  • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    at least it wouldn’t wet your socks. i think capillary action relies on surface tension

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    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It relies on differences in surface tension. If a liquid has a lower surface tension (energy) towards one surface than another, you get the typical capillary effect. In the case of water, the water-air energy is lower than the water-<whatever your capillary is made of> energy, so you get a capillary effect.

      If water had exactly zero surface tension against every interface,

      • it would not exhibit any capillary action
      • life on earth would cease to exist quite quickly
      • your socks would remain dry
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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        life on earth would cease to exist quite quickly

        Image

        your socks would remain dry

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The water would react similarly to alcohol. Yes, the puddle would be bigger but it would evaporate faster.

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    we also wouldn’t have icicles :(

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  • betahack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    look…I’m just glad roaches don’t have sharp teeth and spiders can’t fly.

    let’s stop while we’re ahead

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    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When some spiders are born, sometimes hundreds at a time, they cast little parachute webs and ride the wind to wherever they might go.

      Palmetto bugs are like mean flying roaches that bite.

      You’ll never escape the horrors of the beauty in nature.

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “Palmetto bugs” are just roaches, period. That name refers to either the Florida woods cockroach or the American cockroach.

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      • jjfolken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Let’s stop while we’re ahead

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  • BedInspector@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well if water didn’t have its unique properties of cohesion and adhesion we likely wouldn’t be here anyways.

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  • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s how gasoline spills work. They cover the water about one molecule thick.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So you’re saying my floor needs to be water?

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  • JaymesRS@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This reminds me of the person that suggested in a response to a request for ADHD “life-hacks” where they would wet one of their socks before starting a specific high-importance task and could not take it off until the specified task was completed.

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    • dovahking@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Goddamn. That’s some diabolical hack. I might give it a try.

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    • EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I see, quite similar to the ol’ light-your-hair-on-fire-to-motivate-yourself-to-shower trick. Clever!

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    • Ruthalas@infosec.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is a weapons-grade life hack right there.

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think that’s part of our anthropic bias, not sure we’d be alive without water’s surface tension.

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    • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well cells wouldn’t be circle shaped, but would it actually be to the detriment of life in that or other ways?

      Maybe cells could take a more pragmatic shape, like tactical dicks

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      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Trees wouldn’t exist, so life would definitely look different.

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      • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think that could make some life-supporting chemical reactions difficult to happen, but I’m not qualified to judge that.

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would that mean that if you jumped into the Atlantic you’d just fall to the bottom? Or would that be due to buoyancy or something

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Buoyancy (different densities).

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m really dense though

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  • don@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At 2 micrometers, it’s going to evaporate too fast for the to be a puddle thin film of water.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then your cells would die and plants wouldn’t exist

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now think about what would happen if ice didn’t float.

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not a geologist, but I’m imagine that the deep ocean would be a colossal underwater glacier, with intermixed sedimentary layers. Kind of like what we have with methane hydrate deposits, only much, much deeper. The super-deep ocean simply wouldn’t exist, and we might not even know about the Mariana Trench, or a lot of other sea floor features. Also, it’s possible a different proportion of the world’s water would be frozen in this way.

      With ice as a part of the sea floor, it would also interact with subduction zones at continental edges. That might push a LOT more superheated water into volcanoes, faults, and everywhere else water could go. That would probably make for a lot more geysers in such areas, and volcanic eruptions would be far more energetic.

      The trajectory of human history and technology would also be changed. There might have been fewer ice bridges between continents during the last ice age. Ice-skating wouldn’t become a thing. Harvesting ice in the winter would require bodies of water to freeze solid first, making it impractical except in shallow areas.

      I’m also going to wager that glaciers would behave differently too. I don’t know enough about their dynamics, but I wonder if having meltwater on the bottom helps lubricate their movements somewhat. Kind of like a lava flow, only slower. Inverting that relationship might make glaciers far less mobile.

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      • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, not good. It’s kind of a weird quirk of nature that water is pretty unique in that it gets less dense when it’s a solid as well.

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      • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Hmm, might small bodies of water, say pusdle to pond size, still freeze from the top down because of exposure to colder air and above freezing earth? If the top freezes over all at once it might stay on top unless something breaks it and allows water to flow from under to over

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    • fargeol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The movie Titanic would be boring

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  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That would actually be a very useful tool for machinists. I think it would make it much easier to find out how non-flat something it

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I read that in Meatwad’s voice.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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    • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      made me reread it

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  • Lupus@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did someone say oxygen not included?

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  • jaileh@jlai.lu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love this comment section

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hate when I spill some oil or soapy water and it does this

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Only Rick Sanchez can make a floor that level, and then only 1 square meter.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Season 8 is really good so far. They’re taking the stories in a new direction that I really like. I think Justin Roiland leaving might have actually been a positive for the writing.

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  • bobo1900@startrek.website ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ever spilled a drop of diesel? Exactly that happens

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  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That response goes so hard. Why is it that shitposts bring our the hardest lines?

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