In this case human dwellings would be built to accomodate for this, since it’s basically impossible to wipe up any water puddle. Builders would have to come up with some technology (drains in every room, floor heating as the norm to evaporate the 2µm water film etc.) or risk water damage. So you’d never have to wipe up a puddle since your apartment would have been built in a way that allows for the cleaning of water in other ways.
good news: it wouldn’t be
Sounds like a lot less cleaning in the house as it would just evaporate in less than a minute?
High humidity tends to ruin a lot of houses/construction materials over time, but you’ll likely first notice random spores
I mean you can just ventilate whenever you spill something.
The larger problem would be the entire water-based ecosystem.
We need xkcd to explain what would happen on a large scale if water was like this.
Wouldn’t it evaporate in like 5 seconds, then? Also, drainage would be the easiest thing ever. Don’t even need a slanted floor.
That’d be awful. You want the stuff in water out of your house, not precipitated all over the floor.
What stuff in water? Are you referring to drainage?
Minerals, dirt, pathogens, etc.
If you wash your
earraw chicken (you shouldn’t), that splatter would be much more evenly spread over every surface it lands on.Well yeah, I’m not advocating we convert to surface-tensionless water, here. I’m just pointing out the flaw in this meme’s logic.
Now on to serious questions, wtf is an ear chicken?
You could also clean it by putting a cloth in the lowest point it would run to so this sounds like a win to me
i think without surface tension it would also just fall out of the cloth as soon as you lift it, because nothing would wick against gravity. in fact of your floor is pourous at all, i reckon the water would just immediately all flow further down and you’d be left with a dry floor.
But that 2 micron puddle would also evaporate in 2 microseconds!
Wouldn’t it just be a superfluid at that point? Those things are ungovernable. We’d have way more problems that just spilled puddles. They crawl out of the beakers on their own. It’d be an absolute nightmare.
My bad superfluids are 0 viscosity not surface tension carry on we’re safe.
I heard about superfluid crawling out of a container. But I wonder in this case, what works the fluid against the gravity upward the wall of the container?
“Everything is coated with a fine layer of shit.” https://yourwildlife.org/2014/07/the-tip-of-the-gutberg-the-worlds-first-map-of-the-patina-of-feces/
Would capillary action still work, or does it depend on surface tension? I’m thinking about superfluids. Would the water stop at covering the floor?
Assuming my home is perfectly level, which it is not
speak for yourself
What if each H2O molecule was coated in a hydrophobic substance?
Spilling liquid helium to achieve this.
The boiling point of liquid helium is -268.93°C (4.2 Kelvin)
