On a simple level, we might say that water is bunch of hydrogen and oxygen atoms. That’s certainly accurate, although it’s pretty easy to go a level more complex: the ratio of hydrogen to oxygen atoms is exactly two to one. Well… in a manner of speaking, anyway. The number of hydrogen atoms is indeed double the number of oxygen atoms in a given sample of water, but oxygen is 16 times heavier than hydrogen, so you might describe the
Yesterday, you've ruined sneezing for us. Today, you're after our H2O? When will this end, I ask?!
Fun fact: Bruce Lee was an avid scientist. He realized that, since people and water are both made of atoms and molecules, we're essentially one and the same. He encouraged us to embrace our shared origins by saying "Be water, my friend" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMwBwFj5nQ)
...there's a small chance I may have made some of that up.
We sure can! Did you see that fancy shirt I was wearing in the "me pouring water" pic? Only super duper fancy people who drink aged water wear stuff like that.
Honestly, I'm a lot more likely to look for an excuse to wear pajamas, but (IMO) it is an excuse to celebrate how amazing the universe is! Cheers to that.
Great article! I suppose in a way you could say that the Cosmic Microwave Background (400,000 years after the Big Bang) was the "birth" of hydrogen atoms, since that was the first time already existing protons could capture free electrons.
Good call, Tad. That's exactly (well, approximately) when they began to form.
I love cosmology so much, and already have like 5 more of these in my idea repository! Thanks for the support, and for helping me think about these things.
Fantastic! I share that love of cosmology as well as (I say with a grimace) the number of unwritten cosmological things in the ole writing queue... here's to getting busy typing! :)
I think about this all the time but not in exactly the same way. I think about the formation of the limestone aquifers that feed this part of Texas. The ancient Karst geology that created them and the cycles of scarcity and abundance we go through.
Nice, Dee. There is so much more I wanted to write about, but then I reread what I had and realized the piece would quickly become unwieldy, but this (scarcity of water and both the natural and human ways the water is preserved) was on the list of things.
Yesterday, you've ruined sneezing for us. Today, you're after our H2O? When will this end, I ask?!
Fun fact: Bruce Lee was an avid scientist. He realized that, since people and water are both made of atoms and molecules, we're essentially one and the same. He encouraged us to embrace our shared origins by saying "Be water, my friend" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMwBwFj5nQ)
...there's a small chance I may have made some of that up.
Bruce Lee and I are one person. We are both atoms. I wrote about rock/water vis a vis martial arts here:
https://revolutionbjj.com/news/rock-or-water-a-bjj-players-guide/
(a long time ago, mind you)
*MIND=BLOWN EMOJI*
So, we can say our water was 'aged,' like fine wine is?
We sure can! Did you see that fancy shirt I was wearing in the "me pouring water" pic? Only super duper fancy people who drink aged water wear stuff like that.
I did! so you're telling me drinking water is an excuse to dress up fancy...
Honestly, I'm a lot more likely to look for an excuse to wear pajamas, but (IMO) it is an excuse to celebrate how amazing the universe is! Cheers to that.
Great article! I suppose in a way you could say that the Cosmic Microwave Background (400,000 years after the Big Bang) was the "birth" of hydrogen atoms, since that was the first time already existing protons could capture free electrons.
Good call, Tad. That's exactly (well, approximately) when they began to form.
I love cosmology so much, and already have like 5 more of these in my idea repository! Thanks for the support, and for helping me think about these things.
Fantastic! I share that love of cosmology as well as (I say with a grimace) the number of unwritten cosmological things in the ole writing queue... here's to getting busy typing! :)
Feel free to tag me if you get one up in the near future! I'd be happy to take a peek.
I think about this all the time but not in exactly the same way. I think about the formation of the limestone aquifers that feed this part of Texas. The ancient Karst geology that created them and the cycles of scarcity and abundance we go through.
Thanks for the thought provoking hydration!
Nice, Dee. There is so much more I wanted to write about, but then I reread what I had and realized the piece would quickly become unwieldy, but this (scarcity of water and both the natural and human ways the water is preserved) was on the list of things.
A GoatFury series ☺️
OK thanks for the mindfuck today.
https://media1.tenor.com/m/hhWQYFaOGgMAAAAC/sapiosexual-brain-hump.gif
kinky.
Water is the Universe... watering us, His creations :) It is not cool when your garden is all desiccated. No lively colors, see.