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Re: Dry Water

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Post by likeclockwork »

brownbat wrote: post #148
tmh88j wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>They both give pretty compelling arguments. Until someone can find a definition of "wet" from a respectable source that states an object cannot be fully submerged in a liquid, the guy sitting down has no argument. He seems to be trying to make the argument that to be wet means a liquid is clinging to you, rather that you occupying the liquid's space. Anyone?

Yup. Don't argue about defining terms, just ask the defining terms people. Merriam-Webster: a : consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water) American Heritage: 1. Covered or soaked with a liquid, such as water: a wet towel. OED: 1. Covered or saturated with water or another liquid. Ironically, most dictionaries have fish and submarines easily wet, but don't do a great job of handling…

By those definitions you're already wet from your own composition.

Re: Dry Water

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Post by tomaskafka »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #82
gvb wrote: post #27

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Blenders can be replaced. I would worry more about silicosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis

Or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Been waiting for 25 years to use that word seriously. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...

Or a new disease we'll discover after dumping dry water into rivers and oceans and later drinking it.

Re: Dry Water

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Post by TimTheTinker »

sator-arepo wrote: post #178
ddgflorida wrote: post #177

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This was 40 years ago but we were taught: Antidisestablishmentarianism

Hm. I like this one. It feels more like one single word, and not just several long words written without spaces

It’s multiple prefixes and suffixes around “establish”.

Re: Dry Water

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Post by dredmorbius »

tinus_hn wrote: post #23
tylerchilds wrote: post #13

The patent getting snatched up by cosmetics and then re-discovered almost 50 years later makes me wonder how many cool advancements have been lost to industries that couldn't find any value from them.

In many fields there are waves with the patent expiration cycle, for instance 3D printing or VR. As the patents expire there is a flurry of new research, everyone obtains new patents and it becomes impossible to create viable products again, until the patents expire and the cycle begins again.

Steam engines. Light bulbs. Radio.

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-constraining-role-of-ip-a...

Re: Dry Water

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Post by 83 »

djrogers wrote: post #24

Apparently one can make dry water with a blender - mix fine silica powder and water in a 1:19 ratio (by mass) and put it in a blender for a few minutes. I'm not going to risk my blender to try it, so who's first?

I can't imagine it would hurt a blender. Aerosil is an extremely fluffy, almost airy, material that has some interesting physical properties on its own. It's dirt cheap to buy (around $6 a gallon - http://www.uscomposites.com/fillers.html). I use it fairly regularly - it's a thixotropic agent for epoxy resins.

Re: Dry Water

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Post by weeksie »

maaaats wrote: post #167
weeksie wrote: post #166

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Glad to see the fun police are still out in force here.

My guess would be the "sir" is what triggers. It reads very weird, has a bad link to the stereotypes who would use the word today, and the assuming of gender.

I could have gone with Madam Tim but I worried it would be too formal.

Listen, I have been on this site from the beginning and I appreciate the generally no bullshit tone. I left reddit back when it became clear that HN was the clear successor of the reddit I used to know but killjoy bullshit like parsing "sir" is not what I'm here for either.

Re: Dry Water

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Post by weeksie »

PostOnce wrote: post #169
weeksie wrote: post #166

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Glad to see the fun police are still out in force here.

if useless quips are fun then maybe the appropriate venue is elsewhere? Pointless quips add something else we have to scroll past to learn anything or find something interesting. The goal is more wheat not more chaff. "this was interesting" can be accomplished by upvoting.

Was it pointless? Who doesn't like to hear something pleasant said about, oh, I don't know 25 years of knowing a fun word and getting to use it in context. If praise for that bugs you then you need to find some joy in your life, because I can assure you you're wasting your time right now.

Re: Dry Water

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Post by grawprog »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #82
gvb wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blenders can be replaced. I would worry more about silicosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis

Or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Been waiting for 25 years to use that word seriously. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...

I really wish they used that on the warning labels on the stone slabs I work with every day. It just sounds so much more extreme and terrifying than silicosis.
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