I am occasionally rageful about the time I, along with a collection of other idiots, were trying to convince idiot-prime that water does not have a "magical coolant effect", but rather that it is simply a very effective thermal conductor, and this does not mean that in every scenario it decreases temperature.
The context for this argument was a mod in a game where there are hot and cold biomes, and you can get a wet status, and the mod added a temperature mechanic. Now, the mod made it so when you had the wet status, your temperature would change to match the biome faster- this generally makes sense. Their argument was that it should cool you off no matter what.
Now, for those of you who don't know, while a large collection of water may be quite cool, simply being covered in a thin layer of water will not achieve this effect of staying cool, rather it will instead help speed up the transfer of temperature between your skin and the air. It usually feels like its keeping you cold- this is generally because your body temperature is (or at least should be) higher than the air surrounding you.
Now, the wet status is indiscriminate, so we can't tell the temperature of the water it came from, so thats not relevant, but there is an argument to be had about whether the player's internal temperature should really counter the temperature of the air, but thats a lot of mess that isn't relevant because idiot-prime didn't bring it up. Idiot-prime, despite us bringing up numerous studies and papers about this fact refused to believe us because "scuba diving suits", that was his entire argument. Granted, scuba-diving suits seem to use water in some way as some kind of insulator or some heat stuff of some kind, but none of us really understood it and quite frankly im not sure if IP did either
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What gets me is that it wasn't just some stupid both sides hurling theoretical evidence at one another, I came up with a practical proof of this!!!
Rinse one hand under a tap
Hold both hands over the boiling water (at a safe distance)
If water truly has some magical cooling property, your dry hand should feel the heat faster
If water is actually a really good thermal conductor like practically every study under the sun claims, your wet hand will feel the heat faster
He REFUSED to do this test we all agreed would work as proof, stating that he didn't need to because "scuba diving suits", he would just vaguely point and then and talk seemingly very hypothetically about how they prove his point
Oh yeah he also brought up average temperatures in coastal cities, but that's subject to so many factors we just refused to really engage or research that aspect very much.
I've been wanting to contact him as of late and check in to see if he still believes this, our arguments got shut down by a moderator I think so we never had a conclusion to the argument, this argument went on for a few hours btw
I might have some science here wrong btw, but the idea that he was so opposed doing the most easy practical test that would just shut down the entire debate a whole 2-3 hours early was insane, I do not believe he was ragebaiting he seemed so genuine like dude just get your hands wet, C418 made a track about that it can't be that bad cmon man