Haven't you ever heard of dry ice??

its a randomness kind of thing - if all the hydrogen atoms in a cup of water happen to move to their quantum positions away from the surface then the water will not feel wet and although this is rare, if you repeat anything enough times one should expect rare events

Posted by metsmax on 10/27/2010 3:56:00 PM (view original):
its a randomness kind of thing - if all the hydrogen atoms in a cup of water happen to move to their quantum positions away from the surface then the water will not feel wet and although this is rare, if you repeat anything enough times one should expect rare events

There is so much wrong with this I don't know where to start...

that is just our point!

It wasn't WiS that came up with the spontaneous phase transition theory.

they did, however, discover the temporal casuality loop. It happened during the Knight NT a few seasons back and caused quite a mess.

nice work.

I sure did lol.  Nice job, jskenner.

I tried to submit a CS ticket about this, but it got deleted.

truthfully, it is the cohesive property of water that causes water, at times, not to feel wet. if the force of the contact and the attraction between the water and the intruding object do not overcome the intermolecular bonds of water, then the surface of the water will not be broken. in fact, you can see this in action! for example, this behavior can be seen when you take a small piece of metal, such as the tip of a fork, and lightly touch the surface of water, and then remove the fork. after examining the tip, it is clear the fork is totally dry! a small piece of plastic would work as well. we call this "the small sample size effect".

also, when shaq is playing a basketball game, and sweating profusely, if he puts his wet hand in water, he can not feel the wetness - for his hand is already maximally wet. for example, when shaq is shooting a free throw, and touches a wet ball, he notices not the sweaty wetty goodness. thus, we extrapolate that it makes sense that for 80% of the people, water may not feel wet. we call this the "shaq free throw shooting theorem of life". in practice, it only makes sense to assume that for each statement you can reasonably make about shaq, you can reasonably make for the majority of members of any group of individuals. for example, shaq is a tall black man. thus, we can assume most professional basketball players are tall black men. another example, shaq breathes air. thus, we can assume most members of ancient greece also breathed air. truly, there is no logic purer than the shaq free throw shooting theorem of life.

Well, you guys saying it is wet obviously haven't worked in the water industry and don't understand how rating wetness works.

Posted by coach_billyg on 10/28/2010 2:51:00 AM (view original):
truthfully, it is the cohesive property of water that causes water, at times, not to feel wet. if the force of the contact and the attraction between the water and the intruding object do not overcome the intermolecular bonds of water, then the surface of the water will not be broken. in fact, you can see this in action! for example, this behavior can be seen when you take a small piece of metal, such as the tip of a fork, and lightly touch the surface of water, and then remove the fork. after examining the tip, it is clear the fork is totally dry! a small piece of plastic would work as well. we call this "the small sample size effect".

also, when shaq is playing a basketball game, and sweating profusely, if he puts his wet hand in water, he can not feel the wetness - for his hand is already maximally wet. for example, when shaq is shooting a free throw, and touches a wet ball, he notices not the sweaty wetty goodness. thus, we extrapolate that it makes sense that for 80% of the people, water may not feel wet. we call this the "shaq free throw shooting theorem of life". in practice, it only makes sense to assume that for each statement you can reasonably make about shaq, you can reasonably make for the majority of members of any group of individuals. for example, shaq is a tall black man. thus, we can assume most professional basketball players are tall black men. another example, shaq breathes air. thus, we can assume most members of ancient greece also breathed air. truly, there is no logic purer than the shaq free throw shooting theorem of life.

shaq is the daddy of inductive logic, it's why he's named The Big Aristotle...

and the ability to judge wetness correlates with how sharp you are, in more ways than two.

it either is wet or it is not, 50-50 chance

My son is a cub scout. I learned during the pinewood derby that powdered graphite feels wet. It has no water in it; therefore, water is not wet. Maybe seble has a cub scout son, and that's how WiS knows that water is not wet. Also, I'm not sure how this relates, but a duck floats on water.