Out of context quotes thread

... Does it count as solid? I'd say it's more of a gel.

 

i'm living in a universe where glass is a very very very slow liquid and i don't know if yogurt is solid or liquid

 

pedant interjection: glass is not actually a very slow liquid

 

shit!! my cover is blown, now everyone knows i'm from the berenstein-verse!

but for real it's not? was i duped by inaccurate science posts? :0

 

i did not honestly know enough to explain it well, but this seems informative!

 

@cryptoThelematrix:

well yeah, but humans don't drain fluid from the kidneys except when they pee

 

it is inaccurate as hell, yeah, glass is a solid at below melting point. The myth comes from glass windows being slightly thicker at the bottom than at the top, especially old ones, and while I'm not sure why that is off the top of my head it is 100% a myth that the glass "seeps down" over the years. Unless your window is in conditions that break 850*F (or higher depending on the type of glass but most windows are gonna be soda-lime, which anneals at that temp), it is a solid and it's not moving for shit.

#glass witch OUT

 

The reason for the thicker-at-the-bottom thing is that old window glass just wasn't of uniform thickness, the production methods weren't good enough for that. So people generally installed the panes with the thicker end down, for stability. I think I remember seeing a picture of one window where the panes were installed thick-end up instead.

 

... is the reverse-toilet thing a myth too? I didn't know that.

 

Yeah, the Coriolis forces only make a difference on very large scales.

 

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@Petra: