It’s the little things

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Then your cells would die and plants wouldn’t exist

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• spiffpitt@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  wouldn’t this evaporate extremely quick though?

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨12⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• betahack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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• lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      life on earth would cease to exist quite quickly

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      your socks would remain dry

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• BedInspector@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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    • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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• JaymesRS@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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  • EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is a weapons-grade life hack right there.

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• don@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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• jaileh@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love this comment section

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I read that in Meatwad’s voice.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    made me reread it

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• Lupus@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did someone say oxygen not included?

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• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ever spilled a drop of diesel? Exactly that happens

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• Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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