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In a similar study, water is wet
- mooism2 16y agoIf it's not news, why are you linking to it?
- dotcoma 16y agoprobably just because I thought of a funny title. good point.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoOK, a couple of things. Firstly, the world is full of things that seem obvious, but subsequently turn out to be false. Correlation does not imply causality, and studies to check apparent connections and that then find that they're real, should still be published. Ridiculing them is what has led to a state where negative results don't get published, and hence the same work is endlessly repeated. Secondly, if you really, really know you chemistry, or you talk to some really advanced chemists, you'll find that they don't really understand why water is wet. That understand the concept of "wetting," but that's not the same thing. Millions of dollars are spent by various industries every year investigating the phenomenon of "wetting." So that's not obvious.
- dotcoma 16y agook, I get. Next time I want to just have fun, I'll post on reddit :)
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoIn my experience there's plenty of fun to be had here on HN, it's just that it has to be accompanied by genuine content. It's content-free fun that's frowned on here, as it leads to everyone being "smart" and "clever" and "witty", and the actual content gets drowned.