• Fallibilist@feddit.uk
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    24 minutes ago

    I disagree. I have few canisters of water stored for emergencies in the cellar and I very much own them and if someone were to steal them I could call the police and they’d treat is as my property.

  • LordGimp@fedinsfw.app
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    3 hours ago

    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.

    • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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      37 minutes ago

      Well, I ate some food, breathed, and went to the toilet. You’re welcome.

      During respiration, cells combine glucose and oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and water ((C_6H{12}O_6 + 6O_2 \rightarrow 6CO_2 + 6H_2O))._

  • robert@piefed.ca
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    8 hours ago

    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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      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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        1 hour ago

        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?

        • Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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          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.

    • nomecks@lemmy.wtf
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      7 hours ago

      I went down the rabbit hole and found out it can be diluted but only if you add more than 49% regular water at a time

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    10 hours ago

    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.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      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