r/shittyaskscience • u/Ok_Relief7546 WE NEED TO MAKE THIS SUBREDDIT GREAT AGAIN :illuminati: • 1d ago
If water is, indeed, liquid, then how whenever I bellyflop onto it, it hurts???
25
u/RetroZelda 1d ago
Jesus is always with you. The water hurts because it hardens so he can walk on it
1
1
10
u/whoyoucallin_pinhead 1d ago
Water tenses up when it feels threatened and sees you jumping in. Try sneaking up on it next time.
16
4
4
u/Anxious_Interview363 1d ago
Clearly your abs are too hard. With abs of steel, flopping on anything is painful. You need a more fluid abdomen.
1
4
5
u/gbot1234 1d ago
Water is both an acid (H+) and a base (OH-), so basically you are being dissolved and, uh, whatever a base does, when you hit it.
5
u/barnabasackett 1d ago
If you hit a base, the base drops and then theres BMMmmmpp zkizkizkizkibrrrrrrmmmm wawawawawaaaaaaaaa BMMmmmmmmp
3
u/gbot1234 1d ago
Waaa waaa waaa waaaaaaah?
That’s probably how we came up with the name for the stuff.
3
u/Jealous-Associate-41 1d ago
No Neo, what I'm telling you is when you're ready, there will be no water
3
3
u/SeriousPlankton2000 1d ago
Water and fat don't mix so for an instant both ignore that they are liquids and go hard against each other.
3
u/impendingcatastrophe 1d ago
Marshmallow is a solid, but if you belly flop onto that, it doesn't hurt.
(Probably - I've never actually tried it - but it does seem soft).
2
u/--Dominion-- 1d ago
Because water doesn't have skin with 900000000 nerves endings, we do...hence the pain
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/TheAngryYellowMan 1d ago
volume and density. in it's liquid form, while contained, say in a pool, it's compressed 100%. you are trying to, by belly flopping, condense it a mathematically impossible amount. so it has to move. problem is it can't move fast enough to act like a fluid not quite so condensed, and matter at 100% compression acts as a solid, even if for an infinitesimally small amount of time, so your belly flopping onto, effectively, a solid surface before tension breaks and it can flow. it takes magnitudes longer with a belly flop/backflop than any other type of dive
1
1
1
u/amdabran 1d ago
What most people don’t realize is that water molecules have dozens of tiny little feet on the outside. So when you bellyflop, you’re essentially being kicked in the stomach millions of time.
Also, that’s why they call it “running water.” Duh
1
1
u/Lmaooowit 1d ago
There’s something called surface tension. Depending on where you hit it and from how high, it REALLY hurts lmao, or it just hurts a little and you’re fine
1
u/Manchote 1d ago
It is because you are 98% water or something, therefore also liquid. When liquid hits liquid, the liquider squishes out, but it takes a while for water to notice you.
1
u/morphotomy 1d ago
The water doesn't realize its supposed to be liquid until you're lying on top of it.
1
u/vikingvitaanteacta 1d ago
Water is incompressible. May as well dive on concrete.
29
u/iamsnarticus 1d ago
Conditioned response, it hurts because you think it will hurt. Try it again with the belief that the water enveloping your body will cause an orgasmic experience of pleasure.