good job, lake. this is why you're superior.
For those who,like me, didn't get the fitzgerald reference:
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men.
And here's the story as a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI
The Punch Brothers did an amazing cover, too. Source.
A great fucking song too.
Since water is touching itself, wouldn't that make it wet by that definition?
"Most scientists define wetness as a liquid's ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other sensation. But if you define wet as 'made of liquid or moisture', as some do, then water and all other liquids can be considered wet."
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/is-water-wet 9 Nov 2023
My favourite answer to this is Emergence, which was explained well in a recent kurzgesagt video.
Basically Emergence dictates that a group of things (like H2O molecules) can form something greater than the sum of itself (wetness). In the molecules wetness is not a thing, but the interaction of water with something else creates wetness. This concept cannot reasonably be boiled down to the molecular level, it only exists on this plane of existence.
If something is not wet, we call it dry, still waiting for someone to tell me water is fucking dry.
I'm just talking about the wetness of water here, I support abortion rights.
Edit: most comment replies I've had on here and it's about water and if it's wet. We're so mundane.
What about gases, are gases wet or dry?
You say a gas is wet if it contains water, ok what about if the gas contains mercury, is that wet? Is pure liquid mercury wet or dry?
It's neither because the concept isn't applicable. It's like dividing by 0. You can string the symbols together, but they don't mean anything.
They just ended the debate on if water is wet lol
I wouldn't say so, and for the same reason they claim water isnt wet i claim water is wet: unless it's just a single molecule, water touches (and even clings to) water. So water is wet.
Zoolander did that 23 years ago lol
Gonna have to disagree with Lake Superior on this one...water is wet
Unless it is one solitary molecule of water, the water molecules are in contact with other water molecules, making them wet.
