That’s how water works in videogames
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Water just doesn’t work in minecraft
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Wouldn’t it evaporate in like 5 seconds, then? Also, drainage would be the easiest thing ever. Don’t even need a slanted floor.
That’d be awful. You want the stuff in water out of your house, not precipitated all over the floor.
What stuff in water? Are you referring to drainage?
Minerals, dirt, pathogens, etc.
If you wash your
earraw chicken (you shouldn’t), that splatter would be much more evenly spread over every surface it lands on.Well yeah, I’m not advocating we convert to surface-tensionless water, here. I’m just pointing out the flaw in this meme’s logic.
Now on to serious questions, wtf is an ear chicken?
Auto correct from raw? Otherwise, god help us.
Yes, I will correct.
“Everything is coated with a fine layer of shit.” https://yourwildlife.org/2014/07/the-tip-of-the-gutberg-the-worlds-first-map-of-the-patina-of-feces/
Would capillary action still work, or does it depend on surface tension? I’m thinking about superfluids. Would the water stop at covering the floor?
Your floor would have to be supernaturally flat and level for that to happen.
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I liked it through the last season I watched, which was there season after the big gap. 5, I think? I don’t watch a lot of TV, and I don’t fanboi very well; was that after he left?
As someone who didn’t like most of seasons 5 and 6, yes, it’s gotten better. There are some really good episodes in 7 and 8. There are still duds, but the quality ratio is better than it was.
good news: it wouldn’t be
You could also clean it by putting a cloth in the lowest point it would run to so this sounds like a win to me
i think without surface tension it would also just fall out of the cloth as soon as you lift it, because nothing would wick against gravity. in fact of your floor is pourous at all, i reckon the water would just immediately all flow further down and you’d be left with a dry floor.
Without surface tension it would stick to whatever thing attracts it more. And a normal piece of cloth attracts water way more than a normal non-carpet floor.
But it also wouldn’t flow freely as the GP expects either. Some oils have almost no surface tension, and they are famously a nightmare to clean up.
As a positive, the water would evaporate faster.
the cloth attracts it because of the capillary action pulling water into the gaps therein, and capillary action relies on surface tension! i think without outside forces like suction, the liquid in this scenario would never flow against gravity.
i think hahah
Surface tension doesn’t tell you anything about the cloth-water interface.
i mean it’s literally why liquids wick into cloth
late reply but i ONLY JUST CONSIDERED, the cloth would most likely have some static charge which WOULD result in a literal “attraction force” towards the water!
physics is so stupid, i love it so much
Oil doesn’t have surface tension and it stays in the cloth. At a certain point it’s not surface tension that keeps liquids together but friction.
Says my uneducated ass.
oils have low surface tension, i believe a true no-surface tension liquid is as impossible as a true frictionless surface.
i didn’t consider friction though! i think the rag would still dry out completely pretty quick, but you might have a few seconds while the water falls out depending on how tight the mesh is?
i dunno, this is a real whacky thing to think about!
Probably our bodies would instantly collapse into ooze like that guy in the first X-Men.
What if each H2O molecule was coated in a hydrophobic substance?
Sounds like a lot less cleaning in the house as it would just evaporate in less than a minute?
High humidity tends to ruin a lot of houses/construction materials over time, but you’ll likely first notice random spores
I mean you can just ventilate whenever you spill something.
The larger problem would be the entire water-based ecosystem.
We need xkcd to explain what would happen on a large scale if water was like this.
Wouldn’t it just be a superfluid at that point? Those things are ungovernable. We’d have way more problems that just spilled puddles. They crawl out of the beakers on their own. It’d be an absolute nightmare.
My bad superfluids are 0 viscosity not surface tension carry on we’re safe.
It cleans not only your floor, but also the ceilings and floors of the neighbors which are living below.
cool
I heard about superfluid crawling out of a container. But I wonder in this case, what works the fluid against the gravity upward the wall of the container?
Capillary action; which is a combination of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension and for superfluids the additional ack of friction.
Unfortunately, if cohesion is removed from water, this might drastically change if the water can crawl up the container (the details would be based on the specific physics of this imaginary universe).
It even pass through cristal bottles, you can’t store it there. But it only exist under 2,5º K
