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[–] 115 points 1 day ago (8 children)

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I want to be roasted and fed to the guests of my funeral.

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  • [–] 91 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Water is never really yours it's just your turn to drink it Nestle's.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Water is like that, but then so is every other molecule and atom that's temporarily part of your body.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Water isn't yours.

    It's Nestlé's.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Sam Altman would like a word.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Water is not eternal. It can be destroyed and created. One of the interesting ways new water happens is when you burn hydrocarbons. Some of those hydrogen atoms find and bond to the oxygen from the air and boom, that's brand new water; clean and pure, straight from the exhaust pipe.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Yep! The idea that a water molecule has always been on Earth is a really widespread notion.

    You won't believe your eyes! WATCH as photosynthesis DESTROYS water!

    6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy → C6H12O6 + 6O2

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Yeah but how often is that happening to the entire volume of the ocean?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Apparently all water molecules on earth are recycled through life roughly every 2 to 5 million years.

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  • [–] 19 points 16 hours ago

    Nestle wants to know your location

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    This is true for everything. The matter in your body is not yours, for example, it’s just your turn to use all that carbon and oxygen and whatnot

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  • [–] 15 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

    True of literally everything in life. It's just our turn to hold matter in this form and experience consciousness. Our planet is a virtually closed system wherein everything is recycled.

    (Yes, I know we get water from comets, and perhaps even biological material from asteroids, etc., but in the relatively short term, all of that has been incorporated and we're living in a virtually closed system.)

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    Our planet almost certainly loses tons of matter to space daily

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    606024=86400*3=259.2 mtons of hydrogen and meh im too nonsober to type that into a calculator twice so 5ish mtons of hehe? TBH I hedged my bets in the prefix to tons above, but this is an order of magnitude more than I figured. And with that ratio I'm sure hydrogen and helium are 99.999999% of that mass too.

    The universe is an engine that converts hydrogen to helium, and we are the pollutants caused by the imperfections of the engine. All hail nuclear fusion, for it is light. Let it burn bright, for the ratio of fuel to exhaust is already 3:1, and one cannot bring back the purity of hydrogen once it is spent. Live for the dying of the light!

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    There’s fish jizz in all of us.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Couldn't that be said of all of your atoms too?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Yeah, was thinking the same. I guess, with our definition of ownership, you could say that if something is in your possession for more than a week/month/whatever and no one claims ownership for it, then you could call it "yours", even if you're going to pass it on at some point...

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  • [–] 13 points 22 hours ago

    Ok Stilgar.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I just gave back some food that I temporarily borrowed too, but I regret returning it to nature via the shower drain.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I sometimes wonder if I ever drank water that has been my pee once

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  • [–] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    Yes.

    Jesus’s pee? Doubtful.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    Only because the biblical version of Jesus is likely apocrypha. But the dude those stories are based on? You certainly have. And also Einstein's. And Hitler's. And a bit of mine.

    We're talking individual molecules here, there are so many and they disperse so widely, it's virtually impossible that you aren't currently composed of molecules that haven't also been parts of just about every other human that came before you.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    False. I have access to both oxygen and hydrogen as a welder. I have used both to make a flame that reacts both elements to CREATE water.

    You're welcome, everyone. I saved you all.

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  • [–] 10 points 16 hours ago

    Our water, comrade

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago

    Nice try, Immortan Joe.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago

    bro's two-three steps away from Buddhist enlightenment - you got this

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  • [–] 9 points 13 hours ago* (1 child)

    It is fun to ponder how the hydrogen from the very start is in us now, and was in comets, dinosaurs and giant trees that died long ago and gave up their elements that could be in us now. As wise people said, “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop” and "We are a way for the universe to know itself... on this pale blue dot."

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    "You are the cosmos made conscious" - Brian Cox

    "...you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are." - Alan Watts

    "Allow yourself to fantasy that you're 13.8 million years old And you're part of this incredible ocean of happening Instead of just this one individual Just let yourself experience that for a second The glorious knowledge that you are a never-ending, ever-changing flow of matter that's temporarily manifested with the ability to express love" - Dunkin Trussel

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  • [–] 9 points 6 hours ago

    So if you think about it... every time we pee, we're peeing in someone's mouth

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    This means that while the chances are that most of the water in your soda has never been in another soda, almost all of it has been drunk by at least one dinosaur.

    https://what-if.xkcd.com/74/

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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    and you never really eat corn.

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  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago

    Dude, its a Friday night. I'm getting ready to relax, notgot into an extencial crisis...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    It's also all Holy Water, since Holy Water cannot be diluted according to catholic dogma.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    It cannot be diluted, but it can stop existing.

    1000 ml holy water + 999 ml of tap water = 1999 ml of holy water, but

    999 ml holy water + 1000 ml of tap water = 0 ml holy water.

    So to make all water holy water, we first need more holy water than water, which is hard.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Is there a rate at which regular water is converted into holy water? I feel like we could just pour the 1000ml of regular water into the 999ml of holy water at whatever that rate is, and still end up with 1999ml of holy water in the end. Or is it like adding water to acid where it summons a very irate priest if you try that?

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  • [–] 4 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

    So, first of all, I'd like to point out I've done way too much research with this, I make my daily coffee with holy water for funsies, holy water blessed by TWO popes. I've looked into catholic websites, interviews, read through every relevant bible passage. Trust me when I say, I do not know for sure. Every source that even approaches this little bit of nuance seems to assume a pour is instant. In a way, that makes sense, because we cannot dilute it. So, the reality I've concluded is that we have to do the same. Therefore, flow rate is irrelevant, if I take a whole hour to add a liter of water to 999 ml holy, I ruin the batch.

    Instead, the device I've imagined (but not tried to build, as of yet) to continually produce holy water would use essentially a mini 1-liter toilet tank setup with a reeeeaaaallllly slow drip emitter as an input, so that the "flow" isn't continuous, it's discrete droplets being added to the holy tank, and the bobber that toilets have is set to keep like 100 ml as a minimum to this tank. Then we prime it with holy water and every drip is less than the size of the tank, so holy water is constantly growing, and then whatever output I have can only get holy water and can never deplete the tank.

    Also you can't pour holy water down the drain, that's a sin, it has to go into the ground directly. Churches have a dedicated holy water drain that isn't connected to actual plumbing and goes straight to the ground. Following the rules for that is actually quite annoying.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (5 children)
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    Well obviously it can be made, but I'm not ordained, and I wanted to make it via the multiplication method, so that my coffee is blessed by the pope. I drink a lot in a day, its not feasible to restock it at a church.

    My holy water

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    WikiHow has got you Fam Unlimited supply! Make as much Holy Water as you want.

    I wonder how much better my tea might taste if made with Holy Water. I'll never know I guess because I'm not Catholic. Though Grandma is a recovering Catholic. Hmmmmmm?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago

    I get it, it's easy to confuse me and him, but I'm actually not the pope.

    I specifically set out to use his holy water, not anyone else's.

    Also, its easier to add 2 parts holy to one part tap to get 3 parts holy than it is to involve salts, since I want my coffee to taste good.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Just wanted to say I do not understand this at all but do absolutely love it. I've tagged you as "holy" and look forward to seeing you around :)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    I appreciate it, I've put wayyy too much effort into this, so it's nice to hear. I have drank more holy water than most people, I'd say, somewhere between several dozen and a hundred liters. I must be very pure at this point, I'd think, so I'm happy with a Holy tag.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Just like bussy

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  • [–] 7 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    I wonder: how many water molecules I've drank were Hitler's piss once?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    neil degrasse tyson had a fun take on this. There are more molecules of water in a single cup of water, than there are cups of water in all of earth's water. So without a doubt water molecules used by any number of historical figures have almost certainly also been used by you. Genghas khan, Caesar, Einstein, etc.

    I'm not clear on how long ago the person must have lived for the chances to be near certain or not.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Nestlé has joined the chat

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    I once made a kid on the bus cry by insisting the water he drank had already been pee at some point

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    As they say, you can only rent beer, not own it.

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    It's so nice to know that I'm drinking a small part of (insert favourite enemy)'s pee.

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