Talk:3004: Wells - Revision history

172.71.166.19 at 15:18, 30 October 2024

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172.70.46.108 at 08:45, 30 October 2024

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172.71.26.55 at 00:13, 30 October 2024

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108.162.245.66 at 23:17, 29 October 2024

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172.69.22.243: Thim border

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172.70.162.2 at 16:50, 29 October 2024

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Apollo11 at 15:57, 29 October 2024

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172.70.86.22 at 10:21, 29 October 2024

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141.101.98.104: comment and question

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comment and question

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	Saying that something shouldn't be "surprising" because of the "complex systems" underlying it seems downright contradictory. It's surprising exactly ''because'' it is complex. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.46.108\|172.70.46.108]] 08:45, 30 October 2024 (UTC)		Saying that something shouldn't be "surprising" because of the "complex systems" underlying it seems downright contradictory. It's surprising exactly ''because'' it is complex. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.46.108\|172.70.46.108]] 08:45, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
		+	:I mean, if the underlying mechaninism were simple, it would still be surprising. I think it should be made more clear that the phenomena itself is surprising, not the systems behind the phenomena.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.166.19\|172.71.166.19]] 15:18, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

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	Anyone noticed how the comic's frame appears thinner than usual on the top and the sides? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.243\|172.69.22.243]] 17:12, 29 October 2024 (UTC)		Anyone noticed how the comic's frame appears thinner than usual on the top and the sides? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.243\|172.69.22.243]] 17:12, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
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		+	Saying that something shouldn't be "surprising" because of the "complex systems" underlying it seems downright contradictory. It's surprising exactly ''because'' it is complex. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.46.108\|172.70.46.108]] 08:45, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

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 Seriously though, how did people discover wells? Some internet says from animals that dig for water, but it's still impressive [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.104|141.101.98.104]]
 : I imagine it started with an effort to "improve" on a natural spring, perhaps in desperation after the surface flow of one stopped. But that's conjecture. The {{w|Wells|Wikipedia}} article provides much information on what happened next. But not all clear liquids that come out of a well are potable (brines, for example). And it's fun, sort of, to conjecture what would have happened if 19th-century US rigs, drilling for oil, [https://www.dude-n-dude.com/2024/08/04/ai-oil-ill/ had hit methane instead].[[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.66|108.162.245.66]] 23:17, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
 Maybe we need a category for "stuff that seems like it should not work"? I can recall [[2540: TTSLTSWBD]], [[2775: Siphon]], [[2115: Plutonium]]. Anything else? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.22|172.70.86.22]] 10:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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	Seriously though, how did people discover wells? Some internet says from animals that dig for water, but it's still impressive [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.104\|141.101.98.104]]		Seriously though, how did people discover wells? Some internet says from animals that dig for water, but it's still impressive [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.104\|141.101.98.104]]
		+	: I imagine it started with an effort to "improve" on a natural spring, perhaps in desperation after the surface flow of one stopped. But that's conjecture. The {{w\|Wells\|Wikipedia}} article provides much information on what happened next. But not all clear liquids that come out of a well are potable (brines, for example). And it's fun, sort of, to conjecture what would have happened if 19th-century US rigs, drilling for oil, [https://www.dude-n-dude.com/2024/08/04/ai-oil-ill/ had hit methane instead].[[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.66\|108.162.245.66]] 23:17, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

	Maybe we need a category for "stuff that seems like it should not work"? I can recall [[2540: TTSLTSWBD]], [[2775: Siphon]], [[2115: Plutonium]]. Anything else? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.22\|172.70.86.22]] 10:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)		Maybe we need a category for "stuff that seems like it should not work"? I can recall [[2540: TTSLTSWBD]], [[2775: Siphon]], [[2115: Plutonium]]. Anything else? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.22\|172.70.86.22]] 10:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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	The current explanation seems to have an awful lot of preamble on things that aren't about the comic before you get to the stuff that is about it (in the third paragraph. Feels like that could be significantly cut down, if not simply removed/moved to trivia.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.2\|172.70.162.2]] 16:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC)		The current explanation seems to have an awful lot of preamble on things that aren't about the comic before you get to the stuff that is about it (in the third paragraph. Feels like that could be significantly cut down, if not simply removed/moved to trivia.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.2\|172.70.162.2]] 16:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
		+	:Could be, but the original was basically "to get water, you dig a well (unless there's a river)". When the truth is that it's more complicated than that, and wells sort of fill in a gap in supply when natural water is unavailable or inappropriate (see also {{w\|qanat}}s, etc, which I would have mentioned myself).
		+	:I wouldn't know what to cut out from what's there without ignoring a significant bit of relevant explanation. It'd be a lot of little bits of streamlining, but some people much prefer just deleting chunks of paragraph and not reading what's left to make sure it still makes narrative sense. Yes, a completer history could by given in Trivia, but then I think it'd get even longer. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.55\|172.71.26.55]] 17:16, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

	Anyone noticed how the comic's frame appears thinner than usual on the top and the sides? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.243\|172.69.22.243]] 17:12, 29 October 2024 (UTC)		Anyone noticed how the comic's frame appears thinner than usual on the top and the sides? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.243\|172.69.22.243]] 17:12, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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	The current explanation seems to have an awful lot of preamble on things that aren't about the comic before you get to the stuff that is about it (in the third paragraph. Feels like that could be significantly cut down, if not simply removed/moved to trivia.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.2\|172.70.162.2]] 16:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC)		The current explanation seems to have an awful lot of preamble on things that aren't about the comic before you get to the stuff that is about it (in the third paragraph. Feels like that could be significantly cut down, if not simply removed/moved to trivia.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.2\|172.70.162.2]] 16:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
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		+	Anyone noticed how the comic's frame appears thinner than usual on the top and the sides? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.243\|172.69.22.243]] 17:12, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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	Maybe we need a category for "stuff that seems like it should not work"? I can recall [[2540: TTSLTSWBD]], [[2775: Siphon]], [[2115: Plutonium]]. Anything else? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.22\|172.70.86.22]] 10:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)		Maybe we need a category for "stuff that seems like it should not work"? I can recall [[2540: TTSLTSWBD]], [[2775: Siphon]], [[2115: Plutonium]]. Anything else? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.22\|172.70.86.22]] 10:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
	: I agree, theres been a few comics with simaliar punchlines, "the siphon glitch" for example [[User:Apollo11\|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11\|talk]]) 15:57, 29 October 2024 (UTC)		: I agree, theres been a few comics with simaliar punchlines, "the siphon glitch" for example [[User:Apollo11\|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11\|talk]]) 15:57, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
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		+	The current explanation seems to have an awful lot of preamble on things that aren't about the comic before you get to the stuff that is about it (in the third paragraph. Feels like that could be significantly cut down, if not simply removed/moved to trivia.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.2\|172.70.162.2]] 16:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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	Maybe we need a category for "stuff that seems like it should not work"? I can recall [[2540: TTSLTSWBD]], [[2775: Siphon]], [[2115: Plutonium]]. Anything else? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.22\|172.70.86.22]] 10:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)		Maybe we need a category for "stuff that seems like it should not work"? I can recall [[2540: TTSLTSWBD]], [[2775: Siphon]], [[2115: Plutonium]]. Anything else? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.22\|172.70.86.22]] 10:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
		+	: I agree, theres been a few comics with simaliar punchlines, "the siphon glitch" for example [[User:Apollo11\|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11\|talk]]) 15:57, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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	Seriously though, how did people discover wells? Some internet says from animals that dig for water, but it's still impressive [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.104\|141.101.98.104]]		Seriously though, how did people discover wells? Some internet says from animals that dig for water, but it's still impressive [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.104\|141.101.98.104]]
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		+	Maybe we need a category for "stuff that seems like it should not work"? I can recall [[2540: TTSLTSWBD]], [[2775: Siphon]], [[2115: Plutonium]]. Anything else? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.22\|172.70.86.22]] 10:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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	The similarity with C&H is a bit superficial. Baby humans instinctively drink from their mother's breast, baby calves go to cow udders, and the similarity between the two fluids is pretty obvious. So it's not as random as drinking whatever clear liquid you find underground. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 19:15, 28 October 2024 (UTC)		The similarity with C&H is a bit superficial. Baby humans instinctively drink from their mother's breast, baby calves go to cow udders, and the similarity between the two fluids is pretty obvious. So it's not as random as drinking whatever clear liquid you find underground. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 19:15, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
	:While your logic does make sense on the surface, once you actally aply it.... the similarity between animals mating and humans is pretty obvious.... We stop drinking milk from our mothers as a child and drinking it again is considered very strange, so it would be even more strange to start drinking a different "mothers" milk. {{unsigned\|Apollo11\|22:39, 28 October 2024 (UTC))}}		:While your logic does make sense on the surface, once you actally aply it.... the similarity between animals mating and humans is pretty obvious.... We stop drinking milk from our mothers as a child and drinking it again is considered very strange, so it would be even more strange to start drinking a different "mothers" milk. {{unsigned\|Apollo11\|22:39, 28 October 2024 (UTC))}}
		+	:It's the same with the joke about eggs, if predators eat them, it's not far-fetched to think we might be able to as well [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.104\|141.101.98.104]]
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		+	Seriously though, how did people discover wells? Some internet says from animals that dig for water, but it's still impressive [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.104\|141.101.98.104]]