we should talk about water more often that shit is crazy
it is literally one of the most normal things
you can’t even begin to understand how insane water is
Water as a molecule has SO many absolutely bonkers properties that no other substance has and it's that combo that makes life as we know it possible in this universe. that shit IS crazy.
Solid water floats in liquid water. that's not normal. It expands and arranges a repeating lattice structure that creates a crystal which isn't super strange but it drops in density by 11% which is. It's polarized. It dissolves EVERYTHING. The latent heat properties are insane. the emergent properties are also insane. the nitrogen cycle takes a whole bunch of effort and enzymatic processing, but the water cycle runs off the sun and the chill of space.
Just because you are a bunch of squishy bags of complicated water, doesn't make that a normal thing to be. the vast majority of the universe does not have that. water is very VERY special.
water is extremely difficult to compress and would prefer almost anything else including exploding to being squeezed real hard
Water is the bully of the molecular world. It dissolves fucking everything. That's because not only is it polar, it's also very small, so most polar substances can be infiltrated and broken up by water molecules.
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water is wet weird and beautiful
