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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.

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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)

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*MIND=BLOWN EMOJI*

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So, we can say our water was 'aged,' like fine wine is?

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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.

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I did! so you're telling me drinking water is an excuse to dress up fancy...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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! :)

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Feel free to tag me if you get one up in the near future! I'd be happy to take a peek.

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You might find it interesting to know I am also obsessed with water — we even own a car that runs on hydrogen, the Toyota Mirai, so instead of exhaust that leads to smog, the only thing our car releases into the air is water.

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That's super cool! I feel like my mom has one foot in the future - she is still driving, and drives a hybrid. It's not as rare as the hydrogen idea, but still makes me happy. All of the physics is really interesting down at that level, too.

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It is interesting! I really hope hydrogen catches on; the pandemic slowed the roll on both production and the addition of new hydrogen stations around California, but my fingers are crossed that Toyota is committed to making it happen, as is Honda and Hyundai. I read somewhere other companies are, too, but I’m not sure, I haven’t seen them on the road yet. It’s very slow going. Think of how much better it could be if everyone had at least a hybrid! (Especially out here, the smog can be really bad)

Going back to water — the main thing I think about with water is how much of the human body is made up of it, and how essential it is to everything. This is how I get sucked into those science specials on PBS.

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Water is really cool, and I try not to take it for granted, although I drink so much of the stuff that's a tall order. Every now and then, though, it's fun to just watch how the light bounces off the water. It must be one of the most ancient forms of finding peace.

I think one issue with hydrogen right now is that the tech isn't quite "green", although the cars themselves are super clean. It's just that there is a very real cost to produce the hydrogen, and unfortunately that process uses more fossil fuels than a car burns.

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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!

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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.

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A GoatFury series ☺️

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OK thanks for the mindfuck today.

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Water is the Universe... watering us, His creations :) It is not cool when your garden is all desiccated. No lively colors, see.

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