# Weird thing about water... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606 "2000-01-07T05:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrsBWayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MrsBWayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsBWayne)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/1 "2000-01-07T05:33:00Z")
It doesn’t go away… you can’t get rid of it, it’s constantly recycled! The water you drink today could have, at one time, come out of some dinosaur’s kidneys! Or who knows where else… think about it, it’s weird! Cheers! SW ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/2 "2000-01-07T05:37:00Z")
Thanx… now I won’t sleep tonight… 🙂 * * * I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/3 "2000-01-07T06:03:00Z")
And you get wet when you stand under it, sit in it, splash through it, or put it in your super soaker. Beware, Im feeling very deep tonite… * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![MrsBWayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MrsBWayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsBWayne)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/4 "2000-01-07T06:10:00Z")
_BUT IT NEVER DISAPPEARS!_ Hee hee heeeee! SW ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/5 "2000-01-07T06:11:00Z")
oooh and it also makes me have to pee when I hear it running… * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![Nekosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@Nekosoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekosoft)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/6 "2000-01-07T06:17:00Z")
## Hey, what about the fact that it expands when it freezes while most things contract. **Scientists agree** this elemental oddity is what doomed the Titanic (well, that and DiCaprio) for if water didn’t expand, ice would sink. \(Scientists may not agree)\ ---
**Author:** ![robbaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a4c791/32.png) [@robbaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robbaba)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/7 "2000-01-07T17:31:00Z")
Nekosoft, The property of ice expanding is more important than you think. For one thing no ice skating without this property!!! Secondly, all of the lakes in cold climates would be sterile. Ice freezes, sinks, kills plant life, kills fish, etc. (you get the picture). It is an interesting coincidence that water is one of the few substances that contract when melting and life on Earth came from the sea. * * * “It’s like banging your head against a wall because it feels so good when you stop.” ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/8 "2000-01-07T17:35:00Z")
and what is it about ice cubes that the longer they are in the freezer…the smaller they get? Just some of the things that puzzle a blonde mind. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/9 "2000-01-08T06:14:00Z")
- - - That is the outside surface of the ice cube, going directly to a gas from a solid. I forget what this process is called right now. - Notice the “smoke” that comes out of the freezer when you open the door (and the ambient humidity is low)? - MC ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/10 "2000-01-08T06:21:00Z")
sublimation n 1: (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/11 "2000-01-08T06:23:00Z")
And hey, don’t forget the importance of wet t-shirt contests! ---
**Author:** ![Nekosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@Nekosoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekosoft)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/12 "2000-01-07T19:56:00Z")
## **robbaba** - C’mon, on one hand we have life on earth unable to get a foothold, on the other we have a big movie about a boat. I _had_ to go with the boat. Here’s another, I think Cecil might have brought this up: Hydrogen burns, oxygen burns (technically accelerates combustion) so when you put them together, why doesn’t water burn? Short answer: It already has! [fine print you can barely read]scientists may not agree[/fine print you can barely read] ---
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/13 "2000-01-07T19:59:00Z")
No water. No Ice. No Rocks. No Scotch on the Rocks. ☹ Vive le water!!! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/14 "2000-01-07T21:23:00Z")
And to quote the late, great Roseanne Rosannadanna, “Fish swim, eat, poop and have sex in the same water! Jacques Cousteau is filmin’ things in a fishes’ toilet!” ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/15 "2000-01-08T01:26:00Z")
There is new water made, but not much of it. It’s not really water, its oxygen & hydrogen mixed together. ---
**Author:** ![brdrcolle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@brdrcolle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brdrcolle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/16 "2000-01-08T01:48:00Z")
Without water, there’d be no beer! How sad ☹ * * * “My, my. Such a lot of guns around here and so few brains.” ~Humphrey Bogart in “The Maltese Falcon” ---
**Author:** ![fuzzy-wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b38774/32.png) [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/17 "2000-01-08T02:08:00Z")
now there are some nice thoughts to think about the next time I have a glass of ice water…wonder who’s urine from BC I’m drinking? * * * “Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/18 "2000-01-08T02:54:00Z")
On the subject of ice cubes – what causes the stalactites (or is it stalagmites?) on ice cubes – every once in awhile one of my ice cubes will have a little spire-type thing climbing out of it. Like an upside down icicle. On the top of the cube. Not connected to any drip coming from anywhere. To paraphrase Steve Martin, “what the hell IS that?” ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/19 "2000-01-08T12:33:00Z")
AuntiePam one out of every thousand ice cubes is male. Thus the rarity of finding one, but they are out there. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606/20 "2000-01-08T16:33:00Z")
The Japanese are bringing huge glaciers down to turn into drinking water. I wonder what wooly mammoth water tastes like? You can take salt water, turn it into ice, and its purified of the salt. Yep, pure clear drinking water. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-thing-about-water/12606.md?page=2)