Is Water Wet? The Final Experimental Proof!

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  • In this video I join the "is water wet?" debate. I show you with an experiment the true answer to this question. The argument against water being wet is that water makes things wet, but it is not wet. Fire burns, it is not burned. However, instead of arguing semantics, I show you some actual data (with semantics). I think if you follow me through the whole explanation you will agree with me too.
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  Před 6 lety +2778

    This is what I call extrapolation at its finest! Also answer this, is syrup sticky, is oil slippery, is dirt dirty? All of these imply that you need another object to be stuck, or slip, or to get dirty. However, there is no argument with these. If you don’t say water is wet then you have to say that syrup isn’t sticky, dirt isn’t dirty and oil isn’t slippery!

    • @lord_ibelieve
      @lord_ibelieve Před 6 lety +49

      The Action Lab The whole topic drove me nuts lol keep it up! Btw, congrats on 1 million!🎈🎉🎈🎉

    • @ProPlayer-wq3nu
      @ProPlayer-wq3nu Před 6 lety +10

      Ikr

    • @jjkk9273
      @jjkk9273 Před 6 lety +9

      The Action Lab ✌✌✌♠♠♠

    • @andie.y
      @andie.y Před 6 lety +86

      100%pure water is not wet,it is pure

    • @visharadjoshi745
      @visharadjoshi745 Před 6 lety +30

      The Action Lab I have a QTS , we can't see air that means can fish see water?

  • @9salvia
    @9salvia Před 5 lety +5261

    1973: I bet they’ll have a cure for cancer in the future!
    2018: *Is water wet??*

  • @capybaramorelikebarelycapa1601

    My mom is wondering why I am yelling the word 'drenched' at my phone

    • @MrLroyjetson
      @MrLroyjetson Před 5 lety +74

      Capybara More Like BarelyCapable On my soul I was saying drenched the whole time

    • @Trump-vx2ny
      @Trump-vx2ny Před 5 lety +23

      Same

    • @emers1n_
      @emers1n_ Před 5 lety +46

      I was thinking saturated

    • @CaydeeBoy
      @CaydeeBoy Před 5 lety +5

      Capybara More Like BarelyCapable same here

    • @keywoniaspencer
      @keywoniaspencer Před 5 lety +31

      I was yelling drenched too 😂 I was mad he said dripping and sopping wet lmao

  • @letsgooo1637
    @letsgooo1637 Před rokem +92

    His wife : IM PISSED
    Him : let’s mesure how pissed you are

  • @fearful5096
    @fearful5096 Před 3 lety +232

    POV: You randomly searched "Is Water Wet?"

  • @Donnydyl
    @Donnydyl Před 5 lety +704

    “Really dripping wet” BRO DRENCHED

    • @eugyy_
      @eugyy_ Před 5 lety +16

      DilL’s channel Random stuff WATERLOGGED

    • @Donnydyl
      @Donnydyl Před 5 lety +3

      Eugy7 good one

    • @VyzerMusic
      @VyzerMusic Před 5 lety +5

      I was thinking the exact same thing lol, drenched

    • @Castodas
      @Castodas Před 5 lety +3

      “Bro drenched” is kind of random, lol! XD

    • @pmadood6970
      @pmadood6970 Před 5 lety +4

      All of you are fools; dripping wet is "drenched/soaking/sopping" it's all the same damn thing, they all are dripping wet lol fools

  • @BobMcCoy
    @BobMcCoy Před 6 lety +5165

    *Next Video: **_Is Water Thicc?_*

  • @Mrqwerty2109
    @Mrqwerty2109 Před 2 lety +422

    I consider "Is water wet?" similar to "Is 1 a prime number?"
    1 can only be divided by 1 and itself, but it is not included among prime numbers. In the same way, water is covered by water molecules, but it is not included among wet objects.

    • @thebrokenmystic879
      @thebrokenmystic879 Před 2 lety +15

      Nerd

    • @thebrokenmystic879
      @thebrokenmystic879 Před 2 lety +27

      Just kidding

    • @pokette
      @pokette Před 2 lety +89

      What really bothers me about this argument is it immediately sets up a false dichotomy- dry vs. wet. What it ignores is that these are descriptors of how objects interact with liquids. Lava is a liquid, but you wouldn't call it wet, would you? Certainly not without being prompted. Even honey or syrup would be a pretty strange thing to call wet, despite the fact they are liquids and you can easily submerge something in them. As acknowledged, this isn't a scientific question, it's a linguistic one, which is why I think this channel fell short on this topic.
      "Wet," as a word, is not comparable to "sticky" or "slippery" as stated by the pinned comment. Personally, though, I wouldn't call dirt inherently dirty either, but that's another discussion, and a rather different one since dirt doesn't have a simple molecular definition.
      slip·per·y
      /ˈslip(ə)rē/
      adjective
      (of a surface or object) difficult to hold firmly or stand on because it is smooth, wet, or slimy.
      "slippery ice"
      stick·y
      /ˈstikē/
      adjective
      tending or designed to stick to things on contact or covered with something that sticks.
      "her sticky bubblegum"
      Both of these describe how the substance itself interacts with any given object. Now look at wet:
      wet
      /wet/
      covered or saturated with water or another liquid.
      "she followed, slipping on the wet rock"
      Notice it has nothing to do with the substance itself, but rather it's a quality of an affected object.
      Additionally, after a point, an object can't get any more wet, despite what's claimed in the video. A piece of cloth submerged in a full kitchen sink is no wetter than a piece of cloth at the bottom of the ocean, so the graph is pretty obviously inaccurate.
      As a final point, he says "if we were able to get 100% pure water, that water wouldn't be considered wet." But if that's true, then he's referring to the parts in water being wet.... that aren't water. Otherwise the water would be considered pure.
      Really, his biggest mistake is arguing that the definition used in the argument "water isn't wet" actually does apply, when it really doesn't. It's much simpler to bring up the fact that there are definitions that do include water. Water is wet, but it also isn't, because it's- again- a linguistic debate. But language has nuance, and we derive things from context, and in conclusion it would be a mistake to try to box the word in one way or another

    • @KurisutofaDK
      @KurisutofaDK Před 2 lety +5

      @@pokette Okay.

    • @J-jizzy_
      @J-jizzy_ Před 2 lety +4

      @@pokette alright.

  • @ocsicnarf666
    @ocsicnarf666 Před 3 lety +40

    To think this was 2 years ago, feels like a week ago

  • @ftimmathew633
    @ftimmathew633 Před 6 lety +895

    100 years later:
    9th grade science textbook- The Wetness Theory (proposed by Action lab)

  • @jacktbear5385
    @jacktbear5385 Před 6 lety +371

    Lettuce is 95 percent water so lettuce is dripping wet 🤯

  • @troyvalencia
    @troyvalencia Před 3 lety +29

    Next question:
    Is fire dry?

    • @hevnet
      @hevnet Před 2 lety +1

      duh

    • @andykerass3695
      @andykerass3695 Před 2 lety +3

      It could have water vapour in it, giving it a 'percentage' of water and therefore a place on the wetness chart lol

    • @gamerxxgamer6723
      @gamerxxgamer6723 Před 2 lety

      BRUH you must be DUMB
      ITS NOT EVEN DRY OR WET
      ITS AIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      OH MY GOD.........Edit: A fire is from gas. No wonder why people think its "dry"
      If anyone r/wooooshes me *then I will quit earth*

    • @sn8wball
      @sn8wball Před 2 lety

      @@gamerxxgamer6723 calm down jesus

    • @MarsStarcruiser
      @MarsStarcruiser Před 2 lety

      @@gamerxxgamer6723 Can we have wet fire then🤔

  • @Madmoe999
    @Madmoe999 Před 3 lety +31

    That doesn't make sense. If you completely submerge an object in water it is as wet as it's ever gonna be. A paper towel is not more wet just because it's submerged in a pool rather than a bathtub. It has reached is capacity to absorb the water and it's surface only needs a certain set amount of water to be fully covered. Therefore saying that more water = more wet does not make sense because the effect it has on the object does not change. That is what "wet" means. It defines the waters effect on other objects not on waters effect itself. You are even saying this yourself in this video because you actually need to use the toiletpaper or "the system" to have a higher percentage of water to be more wet. But then do it without the paper. Just add water. 1L of water is not less wet than 2L of water. Pour those two amounts of water on two equally sized objects however then the object that got 2L poured over it will be more wet.

    • @Ch3rryCanary
      @Ch3rryCanary Před 3 lety +2

      Well written & thought out perspective. However, I believe the same argument could be for fire: would you measure the level of hotness based on its temperature? Is a 97 degree cup of coffee less hot than a 100 degree cup because it spent more time on/in/with direct heat? If we were to ever scientifically & culturally accept we can’t produce fire in its purest form then the argument wouldn’t be “is the fire we can produce hot?” rather “how hot can it get?” So I don’t think this experiment was necessarily “is it wet?” rather “how wet is it?” And to answer that, one must define the state of being “wet” and its levels (i.e. degrees) of wetness. He did clearly state dry is the only state where water does not exist. And every other level was not denied of being wet, rather just how wet something can get. Everything you stated was true, it just didn’t directly apply to the inquiry.

    • @LevantWasTaken
      @LevantWasTaken Před 3 lety +1

      he means more saturated. with water.

    • @Madmoe999
      @Madmoe999 Před 3 lety +7

      @@Ch3rryCanary Then i don't think you fully understood my perspective. Like i said, i disagree with his definition of "wet". He is saying that more water = more wet while i think that is wrong. "wet" is a word we use to describe waters effect on another object. Without that second object water is just water on it's own it cannot be wet. I agree that he presented different levels of "wet" but like i said, if the object has reached it's maximum capacity to absorb the water and it's entire surface is covered by the water, then per the definition that i belive is accurate for "wet", it is as wet as it's ever going to be. Because the effect the water has on that object will not change from that point on, no matter how much more water you choose to add.
      Therefore the comparison to temperature is not valid in my opinion. Temperature is a much more clear cut scale of measurement, while "wet" describes water in relation to another object. Therefore it would be more appropriate to use percentages to describe wetness as it would vary depending on what object we are measuring. 0% would be completely dry, 10% would be damp, 70% would be dripping and 100% would by fully submerged and absorbed it's max capacity of water. I may have just repeated my view here but i hope this describes my point better.

    • @rubbish6980
      @rubbish6980 Před 3 lety

      @@Madmoe999 water molecules touch each other, so if more than 1 molecules of water touching each other than water is wet.

    • @goose7125
      @goose7125 Před 3 lety +1

      @@rubbish6980 air has water vapor in it, the air is not wet

  • @hivekahuna1011
    @hivekahuna1011 Před 5 lety +1224

    The real question is ... is fire on fire?
    Talk about the flat water-ers

    • @Dr.PaiPai
      @Dr.PaiPai Před 4 lety +21

      I bet you made this comment before finishing the video lol.

    • @bigshow3038
      @bigshow3038 Před 4 lety +4

      😱😱😵

    • @Knottz
      @Knottz Před 4 lety +11

      ah yes water is on water

    • @theendofit
      @theendofit Před 4 lety +2

      Actually its closer to saying fire is not hot. Lol a key means to making things wet is supposedly not wet itself. So a key means to making things hot is not hot itself

    • @heathershaffer7862
      @heathershaffer7862 Před 4 lety +5

      Fire is hot

  • @Cherryfish386
    @Cherryfish386 Před 5 lety +635

    “I think we can all agree this is some pretty MOIST toilet paper”

  • @The_Tormented_One
    @The_Tormented_One Před 2 lety +8

    When I fall in a pool: I am not wet. There are just some millions of water molecules that have sticked to me.

  • @victorperearojas2525
    @victorperearojas2525 Před 3 lety +26

    Being a liquid, water is not itself wet, but can make other solid materials wet.
    Wetness is the ability of a liquid to adhere to the surface of a solid, so when we say that something is wet, we mean that the liquid is sticking to the surface of a material.
    Whether an object is wet or dry depends on a balance between cohesive and adhesive forces. Cohesive forces are attractive forces within the liquid that cause the molecules in the liquid to prefer to stick together. Cohesive forces are also responsible for surface tension. If the cohesive forces are very strong, then the liquid molecules really like to stay close together and they won't spread out on the surface of an object very much. On the contrary, adhesive forces are the attractive forces between the liquid and the surface of the material. If the adhesive forces are strong, then the liquid will try and spread out onto the surface as much as possible. So how wet a surface is depends on the balance between these two forces. If the adhesive forces (liquid-solid) are bigger than the cohesive forces (liquid-liquid), we say the material becomes wet, and the liquid tends to spread out to maximize contact with the surface. On the other hand, if the adhesive forces (liquid-solid) are smaller than the cohesive forces (liquid-liquid), we say the material is dry, and the liquid tends to bead-up into a spherical drop and tries to minimize the contact with the surface.
    Water actually has pretty high cohesive forces due to hydrogen bonding, and so is not as good at wetting surfaces as some liquids such as acetone or alcohols. However, water does wet certain surfaces like glass for example. Adding detergents can make water better at wetting by lowering the cohesive forces . Water resistant materials such as Gore-tex fabric is made of material that is hydrophobic (water repellent) and so the cohesive forces within the water (liquid-liquid) are much stronger than the adhesive force (liquid-solid) and water tends to bead-up on the outside of the material and you stay dry.

    • @huh7270
      @huh7270 Před 3 lety +3

      Each h20 molecule connects to each other making each molecule by your definition wet. Water is wet.

    • @bjrnadriansen348
      @bjrnadriansen348 Před 3 lety +4

      @@huh7270 No, Victor quite clearly draws a distinction between, liquids and solids. rightly pointing out that the term "wet" is used to describe when a liquid adheres to a solid. and since water itself is not a solid it isn't wet. It's not just a question of whether or not water molecules touch anything, it's about the different states of matter interacting with each other.
      Furthermore, he quite clearly explains why the cohesive bond between liquids is fundamentally different from the adhesive bond between a liquid and a solid which you just seem that have entirely glossed over
      if something being wet is simply a question of water molecules interacting with it then the word loses all meaning and purpose, h2o molecules are pretty much almost always touching everything always, seeing as there are gaseous h2o molecules in the air yet saying that everyone is wet at all times is just inaccurate and meaningless. furthermore, it's not just about water, any liquid can make an object wet.

    • @ritakushwaha7306
      @ritakushwaha7306 Před 3 lety +1

      Man just solved the cure for cancer

    • @jmauldagoat8470
      @jmauldagoat8470 Před 3 lety +1

      If you read all of this you are a legend

    • @idococaine9425
      @idococaine9425 Před 3 lety

      @@bjrnadriansen348 so if u pour liquid water on ice only then water would be wet?

  • @hotbleach9916
    @hotbleach9916 Před 5 lety +396

    Is oil wet? Because it doesn't mix with water so it's it dry or is it wet

    • @eugenestahl1944
      @eugenestahl1944 Před 5 lety +60

      Its a liquid it makes things wet

    • @eliblay9973
      @eliblay9973 Před 5 lety +17

      It makes thinks wet in a way but its not wet

    • @hotbleach9916
      @hotbleach9916 Před 5 lety +7

      If it's not wet then what is it

    • @eliblay9973
      @eliblay9973 Před 5 lety +8

      Its just oil, wet is being covered in water or another liquid but liquid form bonds with itself and isn't "covered" by said liquid it just is that liquid

    • @MrTwigged
      @MrTwigged Před 5 lety +15

      Oil is greasy

  • @notcool4314
    @notcool4314 Před 5 lety +142

    No water is flat

  • @reticuluminfirma9407
    @reticuluminfirma9407 Před 3 lety +64

    Here’s my philosophy.
    Google’s definition of wet: covered or saturated in water or another liquid. So if there is a lot of water, it saturates itself with water or another liquid therefore becoming wet. However, if there is only one single H2O molecule, it has no other molecules to saturate it and is therefore not wet. My conclusion is that water is when only when there is more than one molecule of it.

    • @themaxlimelight3757
      @themaxlimelight3757 Před 2 lety +12

      Ergo any water that you can physically see or interact with is wet

    • @dvilsadvocate1498
      @dvilsadvocate1498 Před 2 lety +7

      Only objects that are wet can make other things wet, it doesn't make sense that water is dry but makes things wet. 💀Water is wet.

    • @Prince-ir7rr
      @Prince-ir7rr Před 2 lety +6

      @@dvilsadvocate1498 That’s like saying the Flu is sick.

    • @dvilsadvocate1498
      @dvilsadvocate1498 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Prince-ir7rr no, not only a flu can get you sick. I had the swine flu and was perfectly healthy w no symptoms. So that comparison doesn't make sense. Sand can't get you wet cause it's not wet itself. Only water can get you wet cause water is wet. Literally can only say you're wet when water or anything that has a high percentage of water gets on you. How can something get you wet if it's not wet itself?? Make that make sense.

    • @Prince-ir7rr
      @Prince-ir7rr Před 2 lety +2

      @@dvilsadvocate1498 I said the flu, as in the organism that causes it, isn’t sick but it causes sickness. It is the presence of water that causes wetness.

  • @aw-nl7ri
    @aw-nl7ri Před 4 lety +43

    10 minutes of my time wasted on this and he didn't even say "drenched" smh..

    • @venix2256
      @venix2256 Před 3 lety +2

      Aaram Williams
      Level 10 wetness : Minecraft Sponge in ocean

    • @suraya_
      @suraya_ Před 3 lety +3

      i was saying "drenched" to my screen and he didnt even say it smh

    • @13ttrNutSOK
      @13ttrNutSOK Před 3 lety

      So who gives two craps

    • @MansaMusa50
      @MansaMusa50 Před 3 lety

      Dripping wet is the same as drenched.

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews Před 5 měsíci +1

      He forgot submerged too. He really didn't prove anything anyways. Just ended up with his opinion at the end. At every level it was the percentage of water making something wet. At 100% there is nothing for the water to make wet. It doesn't make itself wet, but makes things wet.

  • @txr4032
    @txr4032 Před 5 lety +687

    I hear Laurel

  • @nightshade5965
    @nightshade5965 Před 4 lety +1596

    Is water wet??
    Mean while gordon ramsay goes to a restaurant:
    *This water is dry*

  • @thepaleone2369
    @thepaleone2369 Před 3 lety +52

    This is an interesting point for sure but there is one major flaw with this theory.
    In order to further understand this flaw, it is vital that we outline the important terminology used in this video:
    System: the overall collection of all particles in the experiment
    Water: all H2O particles in the system
    Non-Water: All remaining particles in the system that are not H2O
    Now lets define exactly what this theory proves.
    As Volume of Water grows in direct comparison to the volume of non-water (as the ratio of Water/Non-Water approaches infinity), the ***overall System*** is to be considered more wet. In this theory, The subject is the system. not the water or the non-water. The Action Lab shows in his graph that an asymptote forms at 100%, meaning that it is impossible for this system to reach 100% water. I would like to provide mathematical proof of this by investigating the ratio that we have established.
    Using the Ratio of Water/Non-Water -> We can plug in some real measurements to see how the graph will behave:
    Water/Non-Water
    0g/2g = 0 [no water, DRY]
    50g/2g = 25 [moderately moist]
    50g/10g = 5 [less wet due to more Non-Water]
    10000g/1g = 10000 [obviously dripping wet]
    But what if we try 0g of Non-Water?
    50g/0g = you cannot divide my zero
    It is mathematically impossible to have 0g of Non-Water in the System. It's not even that it simply "isn't wet" it's that a system with a 100% water ratio cannot exist as wet or dry. it cannot be labelled. it cannot be determined. it is an impossible.
    now there is one question in which I'm sure people will ask: "why did i chose the ratio of Water/Non-Water? why not have it the other way around with Non-Water/Water? in that case having no Non-water would look like this: 0g/50g = 0!!!" and to that i rebuttal:
    This does not line up correctly as we have already established that a system with no Water but Non-Water > 0 is considered dry. if we plug this into both ratios this is the result:
    Water/Non-Water: 0g/2g = 0 [ lowest possible number, dry]
    Non-Water/Water: 2g/0g = ERROR [not possible]
    The error alone does not rule out the ratio, what truly denies this ratio of being true is the fact that we have confirmed and acknowledged as a society that a system with Non-water and absolutely no Water is absolutely, indefinitely dry, meaning that the ratio of Water/Non-Water is the only ratio that supports that fact, meaning it must be used.
    Along with this fact, for those of you who still believe that the inverted (not inverse) ratio is still usable, then lets plug in some measurements of a system with only Water:
    Non-Water/Water: 0g/328g = 0 [DRY]
    If you insist that this ratio is true, then you insist that water is dry, and that a Non-water only system is neither dry or wet, it is an impossible.
    Rebuttal aside, lets bring everything together and look at what we've discussed. There are two ratios that we can use, Water/Non-Water OR Non-Water/Water however the latter does not comply with the simple fact that a Non-Water only system is defined as dry. Using the Ratio of Water/Non-Water, a Non-Water only System is completely dry, and a Water only System is neither Wet or dry, it is un-labelable.
    Non-Water ONLY System = DRY
    Non-Water AND Water System = A PERCENTAGE OF WET
    Water ONLY System = CANNOT BE PLACED ON THE SPECRUM OF DRY->WET
    This video therefore, puts forward some very interesting finding on Systems, however it fundamentally does not answer the question "Is Water Wet?" It way however give us vital insight into something we have not considered. This video perfectly describes the mathematical definition of "Wet"
    Any System that contains BOTH Water AND Non-Water can be considered WET (at different degrees depending on the ratio)
    This ultimately means that for a system to be wet, it NEEDS both and therefor a system with only water does not fit this category.
    This can be interpreted in 3 distinct ways:
    1. following quantum theory, Water is but Wet and Dry at the same time (technically this is debunked by the fact that it cannot be labelled as wet at all)
    2. If the water CANNOT be labelled as wet, then is must be dry
    3. Water is outside of the realm of the Dry->Wet spectrum and does not fall into any form of categorisation. This falls into the same logic as "a plate can not have have it's mental health assessed" it is simply not the correct subject to fit anywhere in the spectrum.

    • @ortherner
      @ortherner Před 2 lety +9

      Ok kool but do you expect me to read all of that?

    • @DraakjeYoblama
      @DraakjeYoblama Před 2 lety +7

      Did you finish the video before writing this?
      In the end he addresses the fact that 100% water could not be called wet. He makes the counterpoint that no water is ever 100% pure, so in practice water is always wet. (Though this still doesn't prove anything, because it's actually the particles in the water that are wet, not the water itself. So I agree with you that water is not on the dry-wet spectrum)

    • @trappedmoss1172
      @trappedmoss1172 Před 2 lety

      Oh gawd

    • @Agentfirestarter
      @Agentfirestarter Před rokem

      I’m not gonna read all this lol

    • @luka188
      @luka188 Před rokem

      This is a great analysis and does effectively rebut the point made in this video.
      I would also strongly argue that a non-water substance cannot be considered more wet after it has reached maximum wetness, and therefore the measured system would no longer be a question of wetness or dryness of the system, but instead we would consider the individual object which becomes wet from being in contact with water as being more or less wet.
      Measuring wetness or dryness on the scale of the system reaches the conclusion that the ocean is in fact wet, however it is not the ocean itself which is wet but the non-water particles and objects in contact with the ocean (water) which posses a certain quality of wetness between 0 and maximum saturation (drenched, the best word to describe something which has reached maximum saturation of wetness, which Action Lab somehow missed when he opened his dictionary). Water isn't wet because it doesn't wet itself, it binds with itself rather than wets itself.

  • @matthewbergeron3641
    @matthewbergeron3641 Před 2 lety +58

    I feel like at a certain point, fairly early things kinda hit a limit for wetness. Wetness is simply the interaction between an object and a liquid. At a certain point the object can no longer hold any more liquid, and that that point it reaches it's max wetness. Throw a rock into the ocean vs throwing a rock into a bucket, one is not wetter than the other. Toliet paper that is 0.0001 toliet paper and 99.9999% water is not "more wet", it just barely toliet paper, and if anything, it's just "more water" or just watery.
    Water causes dryness and it causes wetness. Just like how you can never make water dry, since reducing the total volume would still leave it at 100% water. Evaporating water would simply move the water into the air, or just outright remove it, causing the volume of water to jump from 100% to 0% instantly, meaning you could never make water dryer, you can also never make water wet. For something to be wet, it first needs to become wet. Water doesn't make other water wet, and you can't increase the overall percent of the water to make it more wet, it's just water, only when you add something else to it, does that object become wet, while the water just stays water. When you get into a pool you become wet, but you don't make the pool dryer.

    • @midnighttoastie8012
      @midnighttoastie8012 Před rokem +1

      I agree up until the conclusion. I really think it just comes down to the definition of whether wet extends to water molecules. However I don’t disagree, more or less just think there is no definitive conclusion based on logic.
      Like obviously an object has a limit to the amount of wetness it can have as you explained. And when something is described as wet it’s the object that is wet not the system which is something I think he did incorrectly with dripping wet. An object is dripping wet if water is dripping off of it. Even though this describes a system, the object is wet not the system. He incorrectly extended it to the system being wet. However this doesn’t mean water itself isn’t wet, it just means his reasoning is wrong. Whether water is wet or not purely depends on definition. For example an object (except water) is wet if there is water on it. Or something like that. It could be liquids or water ever. However some definition sof wet use the feel of the thing it is describing or the nature of the object not purely the amount of liquid. In this case water is wet because it has liquid like properties.
      Its purely whether or not it was chosen that way in the definition used. Funny enough a lot of different definitions are used in situations making for confusing situations. Logically water can be wet and also not wet, which is why this argument can go on forever as different logical claims can be created to support it, like the one in the video and the one you made.

    • @FlatEarthKiller
      @FlatEarthKiller Před rokem +5

      Is syrup sticky? Is oil oily? Is dirt dirty? If water is not wet, then syrup is not sticky, oil is not oily, dirt is not dirty.

    • @callmez55
      @callmez55 Před rokem

      @@FlatEarthKiller if you touch it of course it's sticky. But if you put it in water, it's not. So it's depends on stuff connecting it

    • @invigor8986
      @invigor8986 Před rokem

      yea, I understood his point. My only thing is, he's explaining about things being wet, and how much percentage of something is water compared to the thing inside of the water. To me, that doesn't really have anyting to do with the question about the water being wet...only the object inside of it. He did good at explaining that u can't really have 100% water, because there's always something inside of it...even if that something only makes up .001% or whatever the case may be. Like i said, I got his point on what he was talking about, but doesn't really answer the question. Which I believe the answer is just perspective. He just didn't give a solid explanation to his answer in my opinion

    • @invigor8986
      @invigor8986 Před rokem

      @@callmez55 Yes water changes some things..but water doesn't change water. It just changes the percentage of the water to whatever else ratio. Irrelevant lol

  • @sunnysideplays8017
    @sunnysideplays8017 Před 5 lety +537

    Is mayonasie an instrument

  • @sameersachan8427
    @sameersachan8427 Před 5 lety +742

    1970: We will have flying cars in the future
    2019: Is water wet?

    • @SRBAnimate
      @SRBAnimate Před 5 lety +1

      Oh yeah yeah

    • @thatbananaguy9317
      @thatbananaguy9317 Před 5 lety +3

      Sameer Sachan 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😅🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

    • @gmonkmeta
      @gmonkmeta Před 5 lety +2

      Sameer Sachan 2019 also you and me and max took over the internet so I took mine off

    • @brandongonzalez_
      @brandongonzalez_ Před 5 lety +1

      For me I’m watching this in 2019

    • @noakberglund8150
      @noakberglund8150 Před 5 lety +5

      Sameer Sachan really overused man

  • @alexanderbrady5486
    @alexanderbrady5486 Před 2 lety +40

    This is a fun video, but I don’t agree with the wetness scale. Specifically, I don’t think we can specify wetness based on the percentage of water content. For example, a solid block of iron would likely be described as “wet” with only a few drops of water on it, while your experiment shows that absorbent materials like a paper towel isn’t normally considered wet until it is nearly 50% water by mass. So “wetness” is really our experience of touching or looking at an object. A wet object will feel wet to the touch (meaning water sticks to our skin when we touch it) or it will look like it would feel wet to touch.
    This honestly supports your conclusion that “water is wet” even better than your original argument, because it no longer matters if there is some small percentage of non-water in the system. The only issue here is what it means to touch something which is almost completely water, but water itself has a surface so I think that issue isn’t too confusing.

    • @naturesfrontier1745
      @naturesfrontier1745 Před 2 lety +4

      exactly. If you touch something that's "wet", ur really just touching the water on it, meaning water is wet

    • @kazuyahyuga4337
      @kazuyahyuga4337 Před 2 lety

      Well not really because let’s just say there’s a cup of water a front of you, a dumb person would say because it makes stuff wet water itself is considered “Wet” well no that’s not the case because it does make stuff wet it isn’t necessarily wet itself because the molecule barrier between the two objects for example: a finger dipped in water, the finger is wet because the liquid inside the water. Look at it like this, if you see water from the side you can see a top and a bottom. But on the top the water and the surface is separated-

    • @issholland
      @issholland Před 2 lety

      So what you're saying is, if non water gives off water then it's wet. But does water create more water when you touch it or are you just touching the water in a water only system

    • @issholland
      @issholland Před 2 lety +2

      It really is a paradox because you need water for something to be wet. Meaning you have to take water out of a system in order for you to say something is wet, not only do you have to take water out, some water has to be left over or you would say the object 'was' wet. Meaning it is no longer wet.
      A water only system therefore cannot be wet nor dry because it needs something else in order for it to even be considered wet or dry.
      Now would water of different densities or water with different molecular structure get other water wet? We can get ice wet for a time, what about can heavy water get water wet?

  • @maverickjac136
    @maverickjac136 Před 3 lety +12

    At the end of the day all this explains is water can get toilet paper wet. The more water we put on toilet paper the wetter the toilet paper is. The Water itself is not wet.

    • @killptp1638
      @killptp1638 Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you!! That was exactly what I was thinking.

    • @killptp1638
      @killptp1638 Před 3 lety +1

      @The Harry Potter Blog No those particles are wet not the water. You can't just change the premise of the explaination in the middle of the explaination.

    • @sirbryce2548
      @sirbryce2548 Před 3 lety

      Actually, water molecules touch eachother, so for water to not be wet, you'd need 1 molecule of water, therefore water is wet

    • @maverickjac136
      @maverickjac136 Před 3 lety

      @@sirbryce2548 by that same logic does a wall touch itself? It's molecules are touching each other so it would be touching itself. That Pervert Wall

    • @sirbryce2548
      @sirbryce2548 Před 3 lety

      @@maverickjac136 yeah technically

  • @cujoedaman
    @cujoedaman Před 6 lety +289

    So, after all this, you're telling me that Flat Earther's are pissed because the world is round and had to go after something else?

  • @sebastianhernandez1228
    @sebastianhernandez1228 Před 6 lety +359

    Me:
    > I need to study for my midterms
    Also me:
    > watching: "is water wet?"

    • @nobell5006
      @nobell5006 Před 6 lety +4

      Sebastian Hernandez I actually have final exams tomorrow

    • @f3ar724
      @f3ar724 Před 6 lety

      Sebastian Hernandez I have exams in 10 days

    • @blahcah6327
      @blahcah6327 Před 6 lety

      Sebastian Hernandez lol I should be reading on my finals

    • @stopfootage
      @stopfootage Před 6 lety +2

      Midterms, at the month May???wat

    • @sebastianhernandez1228
      @sebastianhernandez1228 Před 6 lety

      Stop Footage I live in south America m8

  • @adamwigley9738
    @adamwigley9738 Před 3 lety +13

    I think wet is only what the water does to something else. Like how dirt isn't "dirty" unless it gets on something. Or dust isn't "dusty" unless it's on something, ect, ect.

  • @strechsanchez
    @strechsanchez Před 3 lety +7

    When he said " we are gonna use something that can get wet" he just proved that water isn't wet, cause you can't get water wet

    • @Shadow-nr4op
      @Shadow-nr4op Před 3 lety +1

      Water in itself is wet

    • @strechsanchez
      @strechsanchez Před 3 lety +3

      @@Shadow-nr4op
      Nope

    • @restrokruc2688
      @restrokruc2688 Před 3 lety

      @@Shadow-nr4op does water cover itself?

    • @Shadow-nr4op
      @Shadow-nr4op Před 3 lety +1

      @@restrokruc2688 if you imagine them in layers it does

    • @restrokruc2688
      @restrokruc2688 Před 3 lety

      @@Shadow-nr4op if water covered itself thats mean water is not really a water, water has a system wich it will combine to a liquid not covering the liquid but oil is only the ecxecption here

  • @royalcrowman9017
    @royalcrowman9017 Před 5 lety +226

    Is fire burnt then

    • @musti1665
      @musti1665 Před 5 lety +1

      Not unless you prove it , like this video.

    • @kylemilford8758
      @kylemilford8758 Před 5 lety +5

      I agree, Water gets things wet but water itself is water, Anything made of liquid can get something wet. it doesnt have to be water at all

    • @shaunfinnasnap462
      @shaunfinnasnap462 Před 5 lety +1

      Kyle Milford yea but anything that can get sum wet is wet

    • @nicholasdrew91
      @nicholasdrew91 Před 5 lety +3

      Kyle Milford no because to say that something is wet means that the water on the surface of that something can be REMOVED.
      Definition of wet: To be covered or saturated with another liquid. Since water cannot be covered or saturated with itself it is not wet. It is just water.

    • @nicholasdrew91
      @nicholasdrew91 Před 5 lety

      Jokunsoo no because you cannot remove the water to make water dry. Because then it is no lobger there. Wet is an adjective that is only supposed to be used when describing something that is typically dry.

  • @jalmighty6319
    @jalmighty6319 Před 6 lety +838

    Is fire dry?
    Edit: verdict, fire is a chemical reaction that produces water vapor as a byproduct. It can be said that fire is neither wet or dry because it’s not a distinctive state of matter (solid liquid or gas) but rather just a form of energy. I think.

  • @iso1664
    @iso1664 Před 3 lety +9

    So technically
    Water is NOT wet (pure)
    But all water on earth is wet

    • @EsOoBaCtvp
      @EsOoBaCtvp Před 2 lety +1

      No, he still fails to prove water is wet. The items in the water, no matter how small, are the things that are wet. The water is causing the wetness, but it itself is not wet.

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews Před 5 měsíci

      @@EsOoBaCtvp Yes, exactly. His normal logic was out the window on this video.

  • @Owen_loves_Butters
    @Owen_loves_Butters Před 4 lety +2

    Arguing that 100% water is not wet is like arguing that a convergent series would never reach 1.

  • @WH6FQE
    @WH6FQE Před 5 lety +521

    My God, I can't believe I actually watched this whole thing.

    • @undertone3538
      @undertone3538 Před 3 lety +2

      Thank you for supporting the channel

    • @WH6FQE
      @WH6FQE Před 3 lety +3

      @@undertone3538 lol

    • @TheTransporter007
      @TheTransporter007 Před 3 lety +5

      It's almost like this guy has proven that even idiots can get rich on CZcams. 😳😬

    • @WH6FQE
      @WH6FQE Před 3 lety +1

      @@TheTransporter007 lol

    • @potustheprescient1
      @potustheprescient1 Před 2 lety

      He literally created a strawman out of toilet paper....any debaters passing through can causal link this guy to death

  • @salehshaikh5880
    @salehshaikh5880 Před 6 lety +89

    Is water wet?
    What has this world become.

    • @Andy-413
      @Andy-413 Před 6 lety +2

      That question's been around for thousands of years.

    • @novadoot
      @novadoot Před 6 lety +4

      Let’s agree this is all stupid.

    • @domish4062
      @domish4062 Před 6 lety +1

      smart

    • @zevries5
      @zevries5 Před 6 lety

      GamerTopper Like or Dislike. It's a matter of philosophy. It is not all that stupid.

    • @ssjvo
      @ssjvo Před 6 lety +4

      I honestly hope thanos comes down and strikes the earth

  • @michellle6623
    @michellle6623 Před 3 lety

    I well and truly enjoyed this episode - thank you!

  • @MrDanielUchiha
    @MrDanielUchiha Před 3 lety +22

    I thought this question was about different points of view. It sure depends on the definition of the word "wet", but it also depends on the spot the observer is. Let's say there's a fish underwater, swimming on its lake. Then, we go there and get it out of the water (temporarily). So now comer the question: was the fish already wet when it was underwater or did it become wet just when it get in contact with a different fluid, in this case the air? When we are completely underwater, we cannot feel if we are wet or not because every point of space we are in is water. We only feel that we are wet when we get out of the water and get in contact with the air. I get the idea of this video but I think this is more of a philosophical question that don't necessarily needs an answer, and is just interesting to debate to exchange ideas and different points of view one can take on a specific scenario.

    • @Tacos18
      @Tacos18 Před 2 lety

      Bro just said that air is a liquid

    • @kryout5379
      @kryout5379 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Tacos18 bro just thought he was smart
      water is a fluid and air is also a fluid just water is much denser

    • @Tacos18
      @Tacos18 Před 2 lety

      @@kryout5379 bro just thought he was smart
      Air is a gas🤦‍♂️. How tf do you mess this up

    • @bleemwisspillow8686
      @bleemwisspillow8686 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Tacos18 Well, apparently my comment with links isn't showing.
      "Fluid" and "liquid" are different. The word used was "fluid."
      Merriam-Webster (y'know, the dictionary) calls a fluid "a substance (such as a liquid or gas) tending to flow or conform to the outline of its container."
      NASA says "Liquids and gases are called fluids because they can be made to flow, or move."
      Encyclopedia Brtiannica says "fluid, any liquid or gas or generally any material that cannot contain a tangential, or shearing, force when at rest..."

    • @0DAYBROKER
      @0DAYBROKER Před rokem +1

      @@Tacos18 bro just thought he was smart

  • @dixonbark
    @dixonbark Před 6 lety +59

    drenched is more than dripping wet id say

    • @icedink87
      @icedink87 Před 6 lety +5

      i was thinking the same thing. he forgot "drenched" and "soaked"

    • @talhozlin
      @talhozlin Před 6 lety +6

      Let alone flooded

    • @vari1535
      @vari1535 Před 6 lety +3

      I was triggered he didn’t say that

    • @sunnysea24
      @sunnysea24 Před 6 lety +1

      Saturated

  • @jotjot5437
    @jotjot5437 Před 5 lety +415

    I’ll save you some time. He said water was wet

  • @sephirapple7317
    @sephirapple7317 Před rokem +3

    Lol this was kind of ridiculous! 🤣 I've never seen anyone go to such length to prove water is in fact wet! This was funny! 😂😂 I love your videos!

  • @pigman6954
    @pigman6954 Před 2 lety +3

    i never understand why people seem to genuinely think water isn't wet

  • @makatangpusit3050
    @makatangpusit3050 Před 5 lety +161

    Take a shot for every time he says wet.

    • @sora2740
      @sora2740 Před 5 lety +5

      I'm a kid...

    • @vinestick
      @vinestick Před 5 lety +5

      Why’d you reply to his comment...

    • @dudleysquibbles6366
      @dudleysquibbles6366 Před 5 lety +5

      Jet Hay Why’d you reply to his reply...

    • @roma_gamer6070
      @roma_gamer6070 Před 5 lety +4

      @@dudleysquibbles6366 Why would you reply on his reply on his reply on his comment

    • @allisnpaige7398
      @allisnpaige7398 Před 5 lety +4

      RoMa _GaMer why did you reply to the reply to the reply on the comment?

  • @jelowo9877
    @jelowo9877 Před 6 lety +223

    I consider that it should be assumed that water is wet. Do you consider that dirt is dirty? Is oil oily? It is assumed by definition. Many people argue that water is wet because it is surrounded by more water, but would you call oil wet if it is on water?? Arguing this kind of question by science doesn't make sense because our language is flawed. It doesn't make sense to say water is not wet when the two words are so closely associated. Just putting my opinion out there...

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  Před 6 lety +22

      You are very correct...

    • @Onyin
      @Onyin Před 6 lety +2

      water is not wet because if something dry you can pour water on it and if you can dry it it was wet but if you dry it it's dry but if you take a water bottle can you dry the water inside of it?water makes things wet but its self is not wet.fire burns things but is fire burnt .It doesn't make sense to say water is wet.

    • @Onyin
      @Onyin Před 6 lety +6

      learn what wet means before writing a paragraph

    • @zebraking8174
      @zebraking8174 Před 6 lety

      Jeannie Zhao l

    • @Montalvodiving
      @Montalvodiving Před 6 lety +10

      You are correct. This is not a physical problem but a language problem. Thats why it cannot be proved by regular experiments. People always doing experiments with physical water when the problem is in the language itself. Still, it can actually be proved that water is not wet by the using the correct meaning of words. For example, in order for a liquid to wet something, it has to interact with something that is not itself, so if H2O molecule interact between them it doesnt mean they are being wet, because they are interacting with themself. In order to wet something, it has to interact with something different than itself.

  • @thomazpolinski2533
    @thomazpolinski2533 Před 3 lety +3

    Love your channel keep up the brilliant work! However, alcohol can be absorbed by tissue paper so it alcohol wet? Syrup can be absorbed by paper, is syrup wet.
    Surely definition of wet is the ability of a substance it hold onto say water without molecular bonding. Therefore is water wet? It does contain impurity’s that often dissolve....no idea!

  • @symmone
    @symmone Před 3 lety +35

    I got in an argument with one of my classmates while trying to convince him and others in the class that water is wet...and I ended up throwing water in his face and storming out of the classroom....not my proudest moment (but also kinda funny, at least to other people in the room)

    • @koifry35
      @koifry35 Před 3 lety +6

      the water wasn’t wet, your face was

    • @socialtwister207
      @socialtwister207 Před 3 lety +7

      @@koifry35 Yeah, and I definitely don't agree with the chain of logic used in this video. But it goes to show that youtubers are just people, like all of us.

    • @Regu269
      @Regu269 Před 3 lety

      @@socialtwister207lmao. Yeah I'm sure you have the same credentials as the dude in the video

    • @socialtwister207
      @socialtwister207 Před 3 lety +6

      @@Regu269 in the field of English? Yeah I probably have more credentials. That’s all the water being wet argument is about, it’s a matter of the English language. There’s very little science involved.

    • @jerecakes1
      @jerecakes1 Před 2 lety

      amogus
      also
      you can make dry (hydrophobic) water

  • @tomcat3946
    @tomcat3946 Před 4 lety +63

    The word wet has been said so many times, I just can't. It sounds wrong now.

    • @Randomperson-zh4ek
      @Randomperson-zh4ek Před 3 lety +1

      *W E T*

    • @Hazzahead
      @Hazzahead Před 3 lety +1

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

    • @tormentedsunbeam
      @tormentedsunbeam Před 3 lety +1

      @@Hazzahead actually thanks for the info, I thought that the phenomenon was something more similar to Jean Paul Sartre’s “absurdity of the world”

    • @livinglifeleona
      @livinglifeleona Před 3 lety +1

      that's how i feel about the word 'dog.' sounds like some viking language word.

    • @ohurana2294
      @ohurana2294 Před 2 lety

      w E t 👹👹

  • @nerys71
    @nerys71 Před 6 lety +918

    I am not sure if I can agree with this. your extrapolation appears flawed by making an incorrect core assumption that your extrapolation is then based on. ie a logical flaw.
    Can oxygen burn? Ignoring same equals same (ie O2) to burn is combination with oxygen.
    so oxygen does not burn. IT DOES the burning when things "combine" with it.
    "wet" I think is similar. When you stick your hand in water your not touching something that is "wet" you are "becoming" wet by sticking your hand in the water.
    When you stick your hand in fire you are not "fire" you are being burned BY fire.
    I think the logical fallacy is that wet is a "thing" when it is not. wet is a "state of being" "an action taken upon"
    water or any other "liquid" is the source of this changed state of being this action taken upon.
    from that logical point of view (which could be as incorrect as I think yours logical pov might be) water is no more wet than oxygen can burn.
    water DOES the wetting. oxygen DOES the burning.
    your water with contaminants is not wet. the CONTAMINANTS are wet.

    • @catguy7520
      @catguy7520 Před 6 lety +51

      Nerys my head hurts

    • @dylanmunoz7693
      @dylanmunoz7693 Před 6 lety +64

      Nerys well said 👌👌

    • @ihassquidhatt5219
      @ihassquidhatt5219 Před 6 lety +24

      Te water is de wet

    • @ihassquidhatt5219
      @ihassquidhatt5219 Před 6 lety +36

      Also fire and wet are not the same fire dose NOT soak into objects water is always at the top of wet scale like fire is always on the top of the fire scale things can burn but they dont absorb the fire but thing absorb water and can hold water in side of them and if you realy think about it everyting is always wet because most things have even the tinest of moister and water is what makes things wet so water there for is wet so your analagys are invalid because you compare fire that burns things through heat if you heat anything hot enough even withought making fire it will burn water or wet nes wont come from tempatures is a liquid not a fire that is just something being burned from high temperatures

    • @ihassquidhatt5219
      @ihassquidhatt5219 Před 6 lety +22

      Also oxegen is just a componet to burning you would also meed heat and fuel mean while water dosent need anything else to wet things so water wetting is bye itself fire is a combination of many things so your analagy is like comparing a fuel source for fire as fire even though it dosent have the oxygen or the heat to Burn but water allone can make things wet thats why water is wet because nothing has to be added to water to make things WET so since water dosent combined with anything else to make this wet YOUR ANALAGYS ARE WRONG

  • @karmarising144
    @karmarising144 Před rokem +1

    The water is not wet - wet is an adjective used to describe saturation with water. Water cannot be saturated with water as saturation requires two different substances which interact.

  • @wifflestroll5425
    @wifflestroll5425 Před 2 lety +2

    Great video! Can you try to figure out if the sun is actually hot?

  • @Hayden_Cat
    @Hayden_Cat Před 6 lety +33

    *I have come to the ultimate conclusion*
    Water is wet but water is not wet
    It all depends on what the word “wet” means to you, so their is no true answer since so people may view wet’s meaning differently. In conclusion both.

    • @TheFinalJedi478
      @TheFinalJedi478 Před 6 lety

      Hannah Cat but the atoms repel each other anyway so water is not wet

    • @Gabriel-xp8nh
      @Gabriel-xp8nh Před 6 lety

      TheFinalJedi 478 so you're saying that nothing can get wet

    • @MthaMenMon
      @MthaMenMon Před 5 lety

      Quantum level: Yes, you're totally right

    • @amonguslover7043
      @amonguslover7043 Před 5 lety

      TheFinalJedi 478 water cannot be dry

    • @mrghost4575
      @mrghost4575 Před 5 lety

      Hannah Cat I agree with you on that

  • @MilkshakeDev
    @MilkshakeDev Před 5 lety +173

    a proper list on the dry - wet scale
    1. Dry
    2. Damp
    3. Wet
    4. Soaking wet
    5. Sopping wet
    6. Drenched
    7. Just literal water
    EDIT: Omg thank you for 100 likes!

    • @somxr_738
      @somxr_738 Před 5 lety +1

      🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ where’s drenched

    • @mariokpc7775
      @mariokpc7775 Před 5 lety +5

      6.IS.DRENCHED.

    • @bbert-tk2eu
      @bbert-tk2eu Před 5 lety +2

      2,5 . MOIST

    • @mariokpc7775
      @mariokpc7775 Před 5 lety +2

      Omg he changed it
      YESSSSSS THANK YOU

    • @pmadood6970
      @pmadood6970 Před 5 lety +2

      An actual proper list
      1. Dry
      2. Damp
      3. Wet
      4. drenched
      "soaking/sopping/drenched" is dripping wet, it's all the same thing. It's just more or less of whichever one.

  • @martonbalogh6021
    @martonbalogh6021 Před 2 lety +1

    1970: They will have flying cars in the future
    The future: IS WATER WET?

  • @Peter_1986
    @Peter_1986 Před 7 měsíci +1

    The "water isn't wet" statement feels like one of those "you have been living a lie! here is the TRUTH!" types of statements, where people try to make up excuses to make things more complicated and mysterious than they need to be.

  • @7z7w
    @7z7w Před 5 lety +41

    from "flat earth" to "is not water wet?"

    • @basaamqasem4718
      @basaamqasem4718 Před 5 lety

      I think the words your looking for sunken, drenched, drenched, dribbled, submerged, splashing, soggy, sopping. ,sauced, waterlogged, soapy, bubbly, rainy, showery

    • @7z7w
      @7z7w Před 5 lety

      @@basaamqasem4718 Yep.

    • @ziemayet
      @ziemayet Před 5 lety

      Flat earth is a crazy uneducated conspiracy .
      Water wet debate is a logical war on the english-scientific terminologies.
      Both are crazy but one has something to it

  • @sniz03
    @sniz03 Před 6 lety +52

    Can water make water wet

    • @mrcalidonia7582
      @mrcalidonia7582 Před 5 lety +12

      Wolfy Vlcak - you have to smack the water and tell it that it's been naughty.

    • @dustbitten
      @dustbitten Před 5 lety +5

      It’s illogical to think you can make something be what it already is.

    • @HyLion
      @HyLion Před 5 lety +1

      Absolutely the frick not!

    • @leobenecke2566
      @leobenecke2566 Před 5 lety

      The Gaming Lion It's a joke.

    • @lesliemartinez6427
      @lesliemartinez6427 Před 5 lety

      Wolfy Vlcak 🤔😂

  • @Yellowroll
    @Yellowroll Před 3 lety +2

    It’s not wet; water makes things wet. It’s like saying that fire is burnt

  • @simonradev43
    @simonradev43 Před 3 lety +2

    Hey, I am neither very good at English nor am I anywhere near to your level of knowledge about science. However, looking into this, I have some points/guesses to make. As far as I see, from your scale and explanation about "wetness", your scale is describing not the wetness of the water but how pure it is. The assumption that it is very difficult to get 100% water means that, almost every time, there is something inside of it, as you described, which actually makes the things inside of it more wet. Also, from this explanation, it looks like the "wetness" is just the property of the objects to hold water or the water to stick to something. The more wet something is, the more water it contains or the more water is sticking to it. So, "wet" seems to be just a property of an object to have water sticking to it.
    I totally agree with you because, from the thing I tried to explain above, "wet" is just water sticking to something and, as we all know (correct me if I am wrong), the water sticks to itself. This is just a different explanation of why water is wet. If we have water and an object inside of it, both of them are going to be wet because water sticks both to itself and to the object. If we isolate the water it is also going to be wet because it sticks to itself.
    As I said, I don't try to prove anything. This is just a thought experiment.

  • @thanos5149
    @thanos5149 Před 5 lety +718

    This debate is so Stupid. Now, let's talk about a more Intelligent question. *Is Fire hot?*
    Edit: 😂 Okay, I've come back to see that some people are taking my comment seriously. Like, calm down everyone I was only Joking

    • @JohnSmith-lt1ck
      @JohnSmith-lt1ck Před 5 lety +7

      Thanos The Mental Titan

    • @superferret4487
      @superferret4487 Před 5 lety +92

      It should be “is fire burnt”

    • @predzelbun2646
      @predzelbun2646 Před 5 lety +31

      That's what I was thinking, Obviously fire is hot, it's is fire BURNT....

    • @memyselfandi2568
      @memyselfandi2568 Před 5 lety +16

      Neon Whiskers fire in itself is not burnt, because fire itself is a visible reaction of the item that is burning.... in order for something to be burnt, there needs to be a chemical change.... when cooking an egg, the chemical components are slightly changed..... but fire is just simply energy in the form of light that's being produced by the chemical change.

    • @memyselfandi2568
      @memyselfandi2568 Před 5 lety +7

      With that being said, the fire may only exist when the burnt is happening

  • @p.s8950
    @p.s8950 Před 3 lety

    Wow... talk about making a person think ! Incredible idea. Thanks.

  • @13ttrNutSOK
    @13ttrNutSOK Před 3 lety

    1999: the future will be better
    2021:is fire dry? is water wet?

  • @lawanbrown16
    @lawanbrown16 Před 5 lety +380

    Actually the question that destroyed my household was: Does a straw have 1 hole or two? lol

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  Před 5 lety +215

      ha ha, I say one, but I can see why people would say two. I bet my wife would say two.

    • @mollysullivan2277
      @mollysullivan2277 Před 4 lety +23

      One

    • @pmj_studio4065
      @pmj_studio4065 Před 4 lety +53

      Watch Vsauce video "how many holes does a human have". That should answer all your questions and doubts about counting holes

    • @gxyrd
      @gxyrd Před 4 lety +11

      1. it goes all the way through

    • @hisensberg1450
      @hisensberg1450 Před 4 lety +6

      1 hollow hole 😂

  • @Quex133
    @Quex133 Před 6 lety +102

    There was nothing I thought I could hate more than the word 'moist' but something in here just topped it 3:02 "moist toilet paper"

    • @fischX
      @fischX Před 6 lety +9

      Whats about piss moist toilet paper?

    • @Gary4DLC
      @Gary4DLC Před 6 lety

      😂😂😂🤣🤣

    • @overdadeirojervoso7333
      @overdadeirojervoso7333 Před 6 lety +1

      Brendan G for some reason i felt like i was gonna pass out watching this video XD there's something wrong with this video i swear

    • @imsyed5
      @imsyed5 Před 6 lety +4

      Brendan G
      I don't know why some English people hate the word moist... I mean come on its just a word like any other isn't it?

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 Před 6 lety +4

      I see a lot of people hate the word moist... I don't get it.

  • @FellVoice
    @FellVoice Před rokem +1

    10 minutes and 24 seconds of my life I'll never get back...

  • @Thetravelingmonke
    @Thetravelingmonke Před 2 lety +2

    “I’ve seen some pretty good arguments” *shows chaz smiths video of him just screaming*

  • @pekkause
    @pekkause Před 6 lety +73

    Water cant be mixed with water to be something different than water

    • @nullmoore9943
      @nullmoore9943 Před 6 lety +4

      Dur - But what does that have to do with whether or not water is wet? If something is wet, it is “covered or saturated with water or another liquid.” Water in a glass is obviously covered/saturated with water, therefore it is wet. Simple.

    • @notethanstone2465
      @notethanstone2465 Před 6 lety

      But you can mix two different liquids to get something different, now look at the definition of wet, it says any liquid so in conclusion your statement was... Kinda wrong because we are not just talking about water.

    • @RedDawn430
      @RedDawn430 Před 6 lety +9

      water in a glass does not saturate itself, it IS itself.

    • @nullmoore9943
      @nullmoore9943 Před 6 lety +4

      Not Ethan Stone How so? “Any liquid” includes water. Therefore my statement was actually right.

    • @lostsouls1919
      @lostsouls1919 Před 6 lety +6

      Water can't make water wet cuz it's the same substance

  • @Art5ty
    @Art5ty Před 5 lety +65

    Really dripping wet? What about drenched? That made me triggered.

  • @gautamknambiar
    @gautamknambiar Před 3 lety +4

    Since you are considering the wetness of the system, then this works. You can say water and a small portion of toilet paper is wet. But the question asks if water is wet, referring to nothing more than water, H20. So unless you can consider that water is saturated with itself, then it doesn't work. But you dont even need that. Water has dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide in it, so the water is basically "wet" with the gas molecules in our air. This is because gases are fluids, and wetness is just something saturated with a fluid. So even your "dry" shirts are technically wet with air. It doesn't even have to be with the water itself. So in that sense, water is definitely wet.

    • @brantleywiley1279
      @brantleywiley1279 Před rokem

      You’re confusing fluid with liquid
      To be wet it needs a liquid not a fluid which is what a gas is

    • @gautamknambiar
      @gautamknambiar Před rokem

      ​@@brantleywiley1279 I was using an archaic definition of wetness that isn't used anymore sorry. Some old papers refer to wetting water with carbon dioxide in order to form carbonic acid, which would imply that you can wet something with any fluid, not just liquids. But since that definition isn't used anymore I guess my argument doesn't hold.

  • @Lodek
    @Lodek Před 3 lety +2

    If 'wet' is measured by the amount of water in an object, how could water be wet? Water cannot be within itself.

    • @adamrizky7658
      @adamrizky7658 Před 3 lety +2

      YESSSSS
      just think about it, a water is the ''parameter'', if subject has ''water'' in it, so it is wet
      the analogy is like baby, is a parameter to say someone is pregnant
      so if someone has a baby inside her stomach, so she is pregnant
      but is baby pregnant???????
      baby is the parameter, just like water

    • @Lodek
      @Lodek Před 3 lety

      @@adamrizky7658 That is a much more understanding way to put it.

  • @argotanna8463
    @argotanna8463 Před 6 lety +40

    Is the past tense of YEET:
    Yeeted or Yote?

    • @rexarroz3012
      @rexarroz3012 Před 6 lety +1

      YOOOO i always thought it was YEETED but i looked it up and it is YOTE

    • @aechronos403
      @aechronos403 Před 6 lety +1

      Yote

    • @iam_gdm1388
      @iam_gdm1388 Před 6 lety +2

      What about yate because eat goes to ate?

    • @DanJD
      @DanJD Před 6 lety +1

      It's "Walmart Yodeling kid"

    • @MVP11489
      @MVP11489 Před 6 lety

      Yomato

  • @208xj
    @208xj Před 6 lety +41

    Count how many times he says "wet" In this video

  • @cookiedoughicecream01
    @cookiedoughicecream01 Před rokem +1

    this reminds me about that time in second grade when i wrote “the blue, wet water” when we were writing descriptions
    the teacher told me to change it when they saw it.

  • @dudekejddjdj
    @dudekejddjdj Před 3 lety +2

    I gained 99.5 brain cells from watching this vid

  • @briannakenan9561
    @briannakenan9561 Před 5 lety +126

    Is water wet🤔
    It just ain’t dry

    • @Keziah2447178
      @Keziah2447178 Před 5 lety

      Bria Khalifa 😂

    • @simoo6674
      @simoo6674 Před 5 lety +2

      WATER IS NOT WET WHEN A DRY OBJECT GETS WATER IN IT ITS WET
      BUT IF YOU WATER ON WATER NOTHING

    • @a.southida
      @a.southida Před 5 lety

      ZanFlix X Did you copy and paste? I saw you post the same reply on someone else’s comment, lol

    • @simoo6674
      @simoo6674 Před 5 lety

      Abby Southida no I just copy it from a video

    • @thanos5149
      @thanos5149 Před 5 lety +1

      ZanFlix X: BUT IF YOU WATER ON WATER NOTHING
      me: *"congrats, you're a Absolute Genius"*

  • @CrumpetCraig
    @CrumpetCraig Před 5 lety +31

    2018: Is water wet?
    2019: Is water water?

  • @JackCabrero
    @JackCabrero Před 10 měsíci +1

    So, H2O is 100% pure water, therefore is not wet.

  • @thevioletskull8158
    @thevioletskull8158 Před 4 lety +4

    Everyone ask is water wet but none asks if water is dry- Oh wait this guy technically made dry water,nevermind.

  • @SharpWorks
    @SharpWorks Před 6 lety +52

    If you theoretically had 100% water, wouldn’t it be infinitely wet instead of not wet at all based on your plot?

    • @JR-814
      @JR-814 Před 6 lety +6

      Sharp Works I would say no because his concept of "wet" was that something contains above 55% water (can't remember) but below 100% . So water we use which is ions and H2O, the ions would technically be what's wet and not the H2O. Once you reach something that is 100% H2O, it can't absorb H2O or dissolve in H2O so therefore it's not necessarily "wet"

    • @SharpWorks
      @SharpWorks Před 6 lety

      Jason Rodriguez ahhh makes sense now I understand

    • @dhruvthakur1036
      @dhruvthakur1036 Před 6 lety

      That thing you're saying is not 100% water but 99.9999999999999999% water... Which makes the ratio of H2o and impurity very large. Or rather infinite.

    • @saulmartinez776
      @saulmartinez776 Před 6 lety

      I understood it like, basically, 100% water can't be wet because something needs to have a system in which water is supposed to be added, therefore if there's no system to add water, there is no possible wetness.

    • @eliasfunez9982
      @eliasfunez9982 Před 6 lety

      Sharp Works yes

  • @samtrout5147
    @samtrout5147 Před 6 lety +12

    Well, if water is 100% water, that means that at it’s driest. Water is 100% water while it is dry and wet. It is both.

    • @dongsicheng170
      @dongsicheng170 Před 6 lety +2

      Woahhh this made me think about life o-o

    • @_TyeXgaming_
      @_TyeXgaming_ Před 6 lety

      Shoopyman Man best answer I've seen so far tbh.

  • @WestonNey
    @WestonNey Před 3 lety +1

    I just watched a man get toilet paper wet on CZcams...

  • @selfactualizer2099
    @selfactualizer2099 Před 3 lety +5

    water being wet depends on how we define something with our artificial vocabulary.
    for example, wetness could be considered a chemical reaction
    for double example, what happens if water touches something extremely hot? it evaporates, HOWEVER, what happens when really hot water touches something really cold? this is what we call a chemical reaction.
    therefore, water is or isnt wet depending on how we define wetness. which can change in different situations.
    the same goes for lava.
    also, fire IS burned or burnt. how can you have fire without a source? we may say its burning, but it is litterally a burnt fuel/source having as chemical reaction with oxygen. therefore it is burning while also being burnt.
    chemical reactions arent as simple as "it is" or "isnt"

  • @antmof94
    @antmof94 Před 5 lety +198

    Your graph will never quite reach 100%. Some percentage of the system will always be some object that you're describing as being wet. So since it will never reach 100% you cant put water itself on the same graph. Thatd be like me eating my weight is carrots. 100lbs of me + 100lbs of carrots. I'm now 50% carrot. But no matter how many carrots I eat I will never be 100% carrot and therefore cant call myself a carrot. Likewise you cant say 100% water is wet because once you remove the object you're adding water to it changes the system you're describing.

    • @0oh_no
      @0oh_no Před 5 lety +8

      But how can water not be wet if it makes things wet

    • @antmof94
      @antmof94 Před 5 lety +39

      @@0oh_no because you need another material to be made wet. Is fire on fire? No because you need an object there to be on fire. 'The paper is on fire' but fire itself cant be on fire. Same with water. Using a quality it gives to other objects cant be used to describe itself.

    • @martincooper2175
      @martincooper2175 Před 5 lety +1

      Anthony Moffa mathematically it’s a limit, you can describe it as material % goes to 0 , water percent goes to 100. It will never quite be but in math is asumes like it is

    • @antmof94
      @antmof94 Před 5 lety +14

      @@martincooper2175 that may be true, but this isnt a mathematical problem. Its has more to do with the physical properties of the water. Sure you can say that mathematically it's BASICALLY 100% water, but the fact remains that its ACTUALLY not. By the same logic, the paper towel water solution tends towards being 100% water and 100% wet. But since in actuality itll never be 100% water, itll never be 100% wet. Just so close to 100% that's you might as well call it so. But like I said, being so close that's its pretty much there is not the same as being actually there. If I'm 3 centimeters from your front door I'm basically in your house, but I'm really actually not.

    • @martincooper2175
      @martincooper2175 Před 5 lety +3

      Anthony Moffa actually it is the same. I cannot give you an explanation right here cause it would be really long and incoherent but I recommend you to search the explanation of why the area of a circle is radius squared times pi. It uses a method with an very little dx inequality until it turns the circle area into an exact formula.

  • @benjamintincher22
    @benjamintincher22 Před 5 lety +16

    Why didn't he say "drenched" as one of the levels of wet

  • @Novaonyoutube432
    @Novaonyoutube432 Před 3 lety +4

    Me: *clicks on video*
    My dad: son why is the FBI at our door?

  • @LOLWHATBRO
    @LOLWHATBRO Před rokem +1

    "is water wet?" is like asking "is meat covered in meat?"

  • @redpoint6870
    @redpoint6870 Před 6 lety +17

    You actually proved the opposite. In the whole experiment you were talking about the TP being more or less wet than before. So if you dropped your TP on the ocean you would have "RRRRRRRRRRRDW Toilet paper" but not "wet water" you can Say "water impurities are wet" but not that "water is wet" if you define "Wet" by "'the % of water something has"' then water can never be wet, if you have a 100% of water, you have "water" and thats it.
    Also, if we used your graph with water instead of Toilet paper, you wouldn't get the same results since it would never be dry, or in any other state that wasnt 100%. The graph on "the amount of water that water has" would be a straight line in the 100%.

    • @zachell1991
      @zachell1991 Před 6 lety

      but the water molecules wet each other, what if you had a single water molecule in a vacuum it would not be wet but is it water or steam?

    • @zachell1991
      @zachell1991 Před 6 lety

      or is it ice? or all three?

    • @bruhlake5280
      @bruhlake5280 Před 6 lety

      I’m going to be *that* guy and correct your grammar.
      1: Whole, not hole. The “hole” you wrote is like a hole in the ground.
      2: Dropped, not droped. That’s not a word.
      3: Don’t put random capital letters in a sentence.
      4: The percent comes after the number. For example: 28% not %28
      5: Don’t start a sentence with “and.” That’s implying that you said something beforehand but if you start a sentence like that then you didn’t say anything before it in the same sentence
      6: Wouldn’t

    • @redpoint6870
      @redpoint6870 Před 6 lety

      Link Link there you go!! It's all fixed now!
      And in case you are wondering, I'm not removing the capital letters, I like them that way.

    • @rdizzy1
      @rdizzy1 Před 6 lety

      Snow is dry water. Within the confines (low temps) snow can stay dry without wetting things, yet it is still water. Certain areas of the world literally brag to skiers about having the "driest powder" snow around. You can make water wet by taking loose fluffy snow and adding liquid water to it, it becomes wet snow, weighs more and is more dense accordingly.

  • @mcfehn25
    @mcfehn25 Před 4 lety +25

    Been watching this guy a long time. And one thing I’ve learned is he’s very good at innuendo and doesn’t even realize it.

  • @thevioletskull8158
    @thevioletskull8158 Před 4 lety +1

    This made me think of a question,is dry ice wet or dry?

  • @akunakun123
    @akunakun123 Před 2 lety

    the action lab saying "moist" is the best thing ever and my life is completed

  • @Pokemonmaster32925
    @Pokemonmaster32925 Před 6 lety +7

    Was anyone else freaking out because he wouldn’t say drenched throughout the whole video?

  • @dylansmith5430
    @dylansmith5430 Před 6 lety +39

    How can water be wet if you can't say fire is burned, wetness can only happen after something was dry and water isnt dry and it can't become dry.
    Let me know your thoughts
    Let's get a nice good conversation going

    • @alessandrogovoni301
      @alessandrogovoni301 Před 6 lety +1

      Dylan Smith i think it’s not the same thing, if i remember it Righi u can turn off a fire with fire, so is the first fire being burned by the second?

    • @ashyknees2224
      @ashyknees2224 Před 6 lety +1

      Dylan Smith if it isn’t dry then it’s damp or more

    • @amoktribal8309
      @amoktribal8309 Před 6 lety

      pelegrins no. If you do it with a flame thrower on a fire burning in simple woods fire will select the better flamable source.

    • @feesarens5747
      @feesarens5747 Před 6 lety +2

      Technically you're implying that fire is the main thing that makes things burn when in reality what makes things burn is heat created by friction or other ways. And heat is what CREATES fire so technically, yes the fire is burning. It is giving off heat. If you rub your arm rapidly you will also feel your arm burning but that doesn't mean it's on fire, it means it's warm or hot and so also your arm is giving off heat more than it usually would. You can not compare heat with water bc water is the only thing that can make something wet. And you can say 'uuhh no, what about juice, olive oil and other liquids??'. Every liquid in the world contains H2O. It's what makes them a liquid. Olive oil comes from the juices of an olive which is grown on trees with the help of water absorption and photosynthesis. The water is found everywhere in the tree and ofcrs also in all the olives and it's what makes the olives juice be a actual juice. It's a very small amount of H2O mixed with small olive particles which in the industry is constantly filtered and strained until those particles are so small that the liquid becomes clear. But at the end of the day, it's the water in the olives that provides us with olive oil.

    • @harrpotterfan
      @harrpotterfan Před 6 lety +3

      Carrot Top not every liquid has water.

  • @hellcat553
    @hellcat553 Před 2 lety

    "How moist are you"
    Water: *"Yes"*

  • @spacejunky4380
    @spacejunky4380 Před rokem +2

    Then if something can't have water on it, wouldn't that break the rule? Like if water is wet, and I walk through a puddle with waterproof boots, are my boots wet? I guess that doesn't change the property of the water.

    • @Lance3015
      @Lance3015 Před rokem

      hydrophobic rubberboots in a puddle dont get wet.
      action lab would probably still call the "system" around the boots wet.

  • @shreehari3136
    @shreehari3136 Před 6 lety +116

    Forget it.lets come to the real question.Is fire hot?

    • @vstagediff1603
      @vstagediff1603 Před 5 lety +7

      YOUR NAME umm yes lol there's not even a debate jk Ik your joking

    • @chimpypimpy8245
      @chimpypimpy8245 Před 5 lety +10

      No it’s actually just so cold it feels hot

    • @hahaihonestlydontknow4626
      @hahaihonestlydontknow4626 Před 5 lety +2

      I don’t know, if hot things burn skin, fire burns skin, I DONT REALLY KNOW MATE??

    • @thecringykids6204
      @thecringykids6204 Před 5 lety +5

      Of course not! It’s ugly, not hot -_-

    • @heypeeps-go9xu
      @heypeeps-go9xu Před 5 lety

      It can reach up to 90000 degrees Fahrenheit , i was told.

  • @XdewGaming
    @XdewGaming Před 6 lety +95

    Well, if any fluid touches something it is then “wetted”.
    We are all wet, by air, i think.
    Please correct me if i’m wrong

    • @GraviQuate
      @GraviQuate Před 6 lety +2

      Xdew Gaming&More air isn't liquid... or fluid

    • @theotherdude1739
      @theotherdude1739 Před 6 lety +17

      Air is in fact a fluid, but an object needs a liquid to be wet, not a fluid.

    • @ihassquidhatt5219
      @ihassquidhatt5219 Před 6 lety

      No it dosent have to be a fluid its just that wet that we are talking about is dampnes not anything to do with air

    • @_amb._5552
      @_amb._5552 Před 6 lety +6

      Air is a fluid but not a liquid but it is saturated with water at different concentrations which allows you to be considerably wet due to the air transporting a gaseous form of a liquid that then condenses on your skin if you are at the same temperature as the solification point of water
      So air cant make you wet but it can set the conditions for your body to make itself wet

    • @bradtheboss2287
      @bradtheboss2287 Před 6 lety +1

      I agree, by whenever an object or a fluid is in contact with a fluid that object or fluid is wet

  • @Galaxy083
    @Galaxy083 Před 2 lety

    I'm a little late for the party.
    Asking "is water wet?" is the same as asking "is money rich?". Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

  • @watcher314159
    @watcher314159 Před 3 lety +1

    Caveat: This only applies to liquid water. Non-liquid water (ice and steam) is not wet, though it can wet things as it melts or condenses into liquid water.