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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Paddy Woods on May 19, 2011, 02:28:27 pm
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my son age 3 askd 'why is water wet dad?' this morning.
i said cause it is ???
any suggestions on how to reply ;)
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if it wasnt wet itd be dry , then it wouldn't be water
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and you didn't go into teaching sean because..... ;D ;D
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my son age 3 askd 'why is water wet dad?' this morning.
i said cause it is ???
any suggestions on how to reply ;)
Try this ;)
Water is wet because this is the nature of water. The nature of rock is to be hard. The nature of grass is to be green. The nature of water is to be wet. To take away from its true nature is to destroy what is and thus water is not water anymore. It may be ice, but it surely is not water. Water begets wetness. Wetness begets slipperiness. Slipperiness begets falling. Falling begets a long and painful hospital stay.
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tell him the following and he will never ask you any thing ever again ;D ;D ;D
Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. Its molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state (water vapor or steam). Water also exists in a liquid crystal state near hydrophilic surfaces.[1][2]
Water covers 70.9% of the Earth's surface,[3] and is vital for all known forms of life.[4] On Earth, it is found mostly in oceans and other large water bodies, with 1.6% of water below ground in aquifers and 0.001% in the air as vapor, clouds (formed of solid and liquid water particles suspended in air), and precipitation.[5] Oceans hold 97% of surface water, glaciers and polar ice caps 2.4%, and other land surface water such as rivers, lakes and ponds 0.6%. A very small amount of the Earth's water is contained within biological bodies and manufactured products.
Water on Earth moves continually through a cycle of evaporation or transpiration (evapotranspiration), precipitation, and runoff, usually reaching the sea. Over land, evaporation and transpiration contribute to the precipitation over land.
Clean drinking water is essential to humans and other lifeforms. Access to safe drinking water has improved steadily and substantially over the last decades in almost every part of the world.[6][7] There is a clear correlation between access to safe water and GDP per capita.[8] However, some observers have estimated that by 2025 more than half of the world population will be facing water-based vulnerability.[9] A recent report (November 2009) suggests that by 2030, in some developing regions of the world, water demand will exceed supply by 50%.[10] Water plays an important role in the world economy, as it functions as a solvent for a wide variety of chemical substances and facilitates industrial cooling and transportation. Approximately 70% of freshwater is consumed by agriculture.[11]
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;D ;D ;D
HE'S 3 !!!
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water is wet because it would hurt his throat if it wasnt
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tell him its because if water wasnt wet, it would damage daddys car / van when it rained
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ask your mum ;D
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Its not that water is wet, it's just that the sensation you feel when your hand comes into contact with something that has lubricating qualities is this that we associate with 'wetness'.
However, the question of why is water wet cannot be answered with regular science methodology, but can be answered in Zen Physics. Water is wet because this is the nature of water. The nature of rock is to be hard. The nature of grass is to be green. The nature of water is to be wet. To take away from its true nature is to destroy what is and thus water is not water anymore. It may be ice, but it surely is not water. Water begets wetness. Wetness begets slipperiness. Slipperiness begets falling. Falling begets a long and painful hospital stay.
If he says 'why' one more time after reading this thread to him clout him round the back of the head and then say 'Thats why!' ;D
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my son age 3 askd 'why is water wet dad?' this morning.
i said cause it is ???
any suggestions on how to reply ;)
Try this ;)
Water is wet because this is the nature of water. The nature of rock is to be hard. The nature of grass is to be green. The nature of water is to be wet. To take away from its true nature is to destroy what is and thus water is not water anymore. It may be ice, but it surely is not water. Water begets wetness. Wetness begets slipperiness. Slipperiness begets falling. Falling begets a long and painful hospital stay.
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ruddy hell Jake i am impressed
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just say your 2 busy at the mo, but mum will tell him ;)
next question ;D
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I thought water was wet due to it's high moisture content! :-*
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run this by him
If you’re stuck in the rain, taking a bath, or swimming in the ocean, you’re going to feel really wet! But why??
Wetness is just a feeling. It’s something that our brains tell us about what we’re touching, and water has some pretty special qualities that make it feel wet when we touch it.
If we put our hands in water, we feel the water swirl around our fingers and our palms. We feel the pressure of the water. Imagine someone squeezes your hand or gives you a strong handshake. That squeeze is pressure on our hands, but it doesn’t feel wet. Water gives our hands a very light squeeze, with just a little pressure that changes as our hands move through it.
Imagine putting your hand into some sand. You probably have to force the sand out of your way, maybe wiggling your fingers or digging a hole. It’s not easy, like it is with water that just changes shape to let your hand travel through it. When you take your hand out of the sand, the sand doesn’t go back to its original shape, but water does! The way it moves around our hands is another quality of water that makes us feel wetness.
Most of the time water also feels cool. It has a cooling effect on our skin. At times it can also be warm. The difference in temperature from the air helps our brain realize that the water isn’t air and that we feel wet.
It is a combination of temperature, pressure and the way it moves tells our brains that water is wet. Our brains are able to take all this information and figure out what we’re feeling right away! It’s pretty amazing!
Just a Phase!
Above, we talked about water as a liquid—a wet substance like juice or milk, but it also comes in different forms. These different forms are called “phases.”
Water can sometimes be hard and solid when it is very cold. Then, you most likely know it as ice or snow! It can be a gas too, like steam, when it gets very hot! Most of the time though, water is in its liquid form, and that is very wet.
A Tense Situation!
Water also likes to stick to itself—not so much that we can’t run our hands through it, but just enough that it forms drops and likes to drip off our skin or make puddles on the ground. It doesn’t just spread out all over the place. If you don’t believe water likes to stick to itself, try this experiment.
Fill a cup all the way to the top with water, so full that any more water would overflow! Now take a penny and carefully drop it in to the water. You don’t want to make a big splash. What happened? Did the water overflow? Try another penny?
Chances are you can fit up to 20 pennies in the water without it overflowing! Did you think there was enough room in the cup to do that?
The water actually rises above the top of the cup. It doesn’t spill because water wants to stay together. This quality of water and other liquids is called “Surface Tension.” The tiny bits of water are built in a way that they act like very weak magnets, but they are still strong enough to handle the pennies in your cup.
The surface tension is also strong enough so that some very light bugs, like the water strider, can even walk on the water! Some lizards, called basilisk lizards, can run on the water! These specially designed animals take advantage of water’s surface tension. For them, the water surface is hard like the ground is for us! People can’t do this though, so make sure you can swim and have a grown-up with you if you plan to be in water!
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blow me down bfg :o :o
but by any chance do u do the program 'inside human body' ??
pretty amazing stuff pal .(hope u didn't copy & paste now?!)
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my son age 3 askd 'why is water wet dad?' this morning.
i said cause it is ???
any suggestions on how to reply ;)
just tell him to google it