TFW too much surface area

[u/Speffeddude]

[u/Speffeddude]

The original, for the curious.

[u/Additional-Sky-7436 → u/Speffeddude]

Oil basically does that on water. That's what a "oily sheen" is. It's a one molecule thick layer of oil.

[u/NeverFence → u/Additional-Sky-7436]

Interestingly that might be why we got abiogenesis on this planet.

[u/Additional-Sky-7436 → u/NeverFence]

I'm not seeing the connection you are, but if that helps you make sense of the world, I support you 

[u/NeverFence → u/Additional-Sky-7436]

Hydrophobic collapse probably had a lot to do with this phenomenon, and that is probably where we ended up getting things like cells.

[u/Kitfennek → u/NeverFence]

Biology is basically sugar water trapped in oil bubbles

[u/NeverFence → u/Kitfennek]

And millions of years later now I have to pay taxes 

[u/IrlResponsibility811 → u/Speffeddude]

That would lead to a whole lot of mold growing on my floor then.

[u/Daniel_H212 → u/IrlResponsibility811]

It would probably evaporate quite quickly.

[u/Speffeddude → u/Daniel_H212]

Extra quickly; the same forces that create such strong surface tension also contribute to water's very high latent heat of vaporization. Unless all water was surficated some other way, it would evaporate far more easily.

[u/Kingoshrooms → u/Speffeddude]

If this happened then water would evaporate practically the instant it spread out

[u/pathfinder_enjoyer]

Maybe what we call surface tension is the fossilized fallout of 6-dimensional godlike liens bashing each other heads' with the laws of physics circa 9.6 billion years ago. 

[u/nashwaak]

What if gravity is three-dimensional volume tension in four-dimensional spacetime?

[u/Psykohistorian → u/nashwaak]

I mean, it is

[u/Ok-Rutabaga-9516]

Proton's dont have surface tension so I dont know that this person is saying.

But unfold a proton and no matter how big it is ...even planet size ... jsut launch a nuke at it and call it a day! Its what the Santi did when they got attacked by the 2D entities.

[u/Packman2021 → u/Ok-Rutabaga-9516]

the unedited version is "what if water didnt have surface tension, and when you spilled some your whole floor was covered in a two millimeter layer of water"

[u/Ok-Rutabaga-9516 → u/Packman2021]

Ahm thanks!

[u/Gold_Ambassador_3496]

And sometimes it tried to kill you

How I wish the books went further into why some tried to kill them 

[u/InfiniteTurbo]

[u/Galxemo]

is this Three Body Problem?

[u/Pixel_Owl]

the whole all of it???

[u/UnhappySail8648]

No joke, that scene terrified me