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  Indeed, Shedaho
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  Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. >
  
  Mer-man >
  
  I think I got the black lung, Pop! > >
  
  For Christ sake Derek you were down there a day! >
  
  "God?" "God? What the shit are you talking about? It's me maury!" >
  
  It’s the “what the shit?!” for me…gets me every time 😂 >
  
  Me too.  Hilarious >
  
  If you've ever touched running water with nitrile gloves on, you'll know it's trippy, your brain says your hand should be wet but it's completely dry, solely because the temperature change and texture is there >
  
  I hate the feeling of cold water on my hands so I use dish gloves when washing dishes. We didn’t have any one time and I used nitrile gloves instead - they were useless >
  
  Do you wash dishes with cold water? >
  
  I will rinse with cold water if im not using the dishwasher for some reason, do you not rinse off the soapy water? >
  
  Rinse, okay. Personally, I still use hot or at least warm rather than cold to rinse. But I wouldn't wash my dishes with cold water >
  
  Yes definitely wash with water as hot as I can bare but for some reason I've always rinsed with the normal temp water and never thought to do otherwise. >
  
  If you rinse with hot it's easier to dry. Or if you leave them to drip dry it's quicker >
  
  Yep. They dry quicker if you rinse with hot water. >
  
  So that’s why my auntie thought she peed her pants when she first experienced seat warmers in my dad’s car. >
  
  Air conditioned seats make me feel this way >
  
  Man I wish I could experience air conditioned seats!! >
  
  I live in Houston and A/C seats are amazing.  I use them all the time and it keeps your back and ass cool and dry. >
  
  Sounds dreamy! But I live where there’s usually snow 6 months out of the year so air conditioned seats are on par with having a convertible, borderline stupid. They would be SO AWESOME for like two months though. >
  
  That's how I feel about my heated seats and steering wheel.  I almost never use them but it's nice when I need it. >
  
  I swear to God, a kid asked a question like this (how does the brain feel wetness) in freshman science class, after the teacher literally dared us to ask him anything to try and stump him, and the teacher totally shamed him for asking a stupid question "because you just feel it." >
  
  We were learning about properties in science. This teacher had a coffee cup and was talking about how the air around it was a gas, the cup was a solid and the coffee was a liquid because it takes the shape of what it is in. Then, he flipped over his cup, and dumped his coffee out and said see!
  This same teacher was saying how you can't see heat. I asked him why on a hot day you can see the waves of heat coming off the pavement. He just stared at me for like a minute. And then completely ignored the question and moved on. 
  He also moved his tongue all over his teeth while his mouth was closed a lot. I think he was on something. >
  
  
  This same teacher was saying how you can't see heat.
  
  Well, actually  you can't. You can see the effects, e.g. air refracting light due to heat. >
  
  Fire? >
  
  That's not the heat you are seeing, it's smoke particles releasing photons due to heat. Might be a small difference, but it is one. Try telling the ovens temp by just looking at the air inside (not the heating element) >
  
  What about a red hot iron bar? You can absolutely tell the difference between a cold, hot, and very hot one.
  Absorbing Released photons is quite literally what seeing is, it's just semantics and quite unfair to say you don't see heat because you actually see the photons. It would be like saying you don't actually see anything, just the photons that bounce off said things >
  
  Iron is the same. Wether you can see photons from heat depends entirely on the medium. If seeing an iron bar glowing is seeing heat, then seeing steam is seeing heat and feeling a cold slippery texture is feeling wetness. You are seeing what the heat causes, not the temperature itself. >
  
  Bullshit. My mum knows if it’s damp or just cold every damn time. It’s one of her superpowers. >
  
  Nah it's part of getting old with experience. Obviously something lying out for a long period of time isn't going to be wet even though it feels wet. Also just looking at it helps. Wet cloth moves differently than dry cloth.
  Or maybe I have super powers as well! >
  
  Experience is a superpower compared to the inexperienced >
  
  Just like how any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic >
  
  I can attest that your mother felt wetness last night, Trebeck. >
  
  I'm sorry the correct response is "What is Idaho?" >
  
  No Trebek that would be your mother