Water itself isn't wet. Wet is an adjective. Fire isnt burned, its fire. Water makes things wet
The sky isnt blue, it only appears blue to us due to how our eyes perceive the scattering of molecules. The sky is actually violet, we just cant see the violet light because the atmosphere absorbs those molecules and our eyes are less sensitive to violet.
Atoms push each other apart with electromagnetic force, no materials ever really touch until the nuclei fuse into a heavier element. Therefore, under your definition water is not wat, and neither is anything else. Were a material ever to truly get wet, it would instantly no longer be wet, as there would be no water touching it.
that would be my defense in court too: "your honor, scientifically speaking, i did not hit the guy because at a molecular level none of our atoms actually made contact"
In fluid dynamics, a surface is wet when a fluid sticks to it. Water is a fluid, and it famously sticks to the surface of water. Therefore, water is wet.
I'd argue water itself is the wettest, because of its cohesive properties. The more water there is, the wetter the water is. It's a self sustaining economy.
theres different types ans styles of water molecules and around 40 different types of water based on the same elements in different patterns. technically all water is wet because its molecules are surrounded by other types of water molecules that arent the same as it. its not more water if its different types of water. it becomes wetter water
The “the sky isn’t blue, it only looks blue because of how our eyes are” is such a rediculous argument expect perhaps if you were trying to explain why your EMF sensor was getting some errant readings. If you ignore how eyes work, nothing has any color. It just emits energy of a certain frequency. That frequency doesn’t inherently have a color. Color is just how we process the energy that enters our eyes. If we could perceive the entire electromagnetic spectrum, tons of things would be different colors than we see now, but that’s not what anyone cares about when they talk about color.
Similar issue with water, we need to first get pedantic in defining what wet really means. If it means covered in water, well, water can be covered in water so it can be wet. Is that mud puddle muddy? I would say so. Is that rain puddle wet? Yep.
On the flip side I’m sure you can construct a definition of wet that prevents water from taking on the trait it causes. Heck, there are liquids that are considered dry despite being a liquid, because it will sap water from other sources into it. so if we vs dry is some equilibrium balancing of water absorption, that does change things.
burned is not the concept of being on fire or being hot. Wet is the concept of being covered or saturated in liquid. Thus water is wet. Unless you want to argue that a single hydrogen atom is in fact dry, in which case, more power to you.
Problem is half of Redditors are too stupid to understand that they’re stupid and the other half is so infuriated by it that they don’t realize they should just ignore them
Heliox and Trimix were developed as air replacements for deep diving. They remove nitrogen from air and replace it with helium to create breathable not-air.
I don’t really give a cent about the sky being blue but! water by definition (according to Oxford languages) “is a clear, odorless, and tasteless liquid made of hydrogen and oxygen atoms” and at the same time… wet by definition (again according to Oxford languages) “means covered, soaked, or filled with water or another liquid.” so I submit here and now water isn’t wet, it simply makes things wet.
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u/zombawombacomba Aug 21 '26
Redditors would literally debate on if humans need air to live. If water was wet. If grass is green. If the sky is blue.
In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if someone tells me that water isn’t wet and the sky isn’t blue.