Timeline for How would I know if I were a 1 mm tall robot?
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| May 8, 2016 at 19:58 | vote | accept | donkey | ||
| May 3, 2016 at 2:28 | comment | added | Wildcard | @ghoti, only if they are frequent visitors of WB stack exchange. ;) | |
| May 2, 2016 at 14:50 | comment | added | ghoti | I would expect that if someone were to go to the trouble of uploading your consciousness into a 1mm-tall robot, they would replace the water in your environment with some other liquid that at this tiny scale exhibited the characteristics of water at normal scale. Since you'd be a 1mm-tall robot, with sensory input adjusted to accommodate your surroundings, it might also be possible simply to exclude water from the environment and have your robot senses simulate it. (Do robots need to drink?) | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 14:29 | comment | added | Andrew Leach | Given that it's possible to upload consciousnesses, presumably it's possible to control the water supply and reduce the surface tension in a way that wouldn't harm the robot who drank it. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 22:17 | comment | added | Jon Story | @nav Yes. Now go and read the comment again and you'll see that WholeWideWorld posted that comment to say 'this image (image from Aldred's post) is what water would look like'.... He's posting it as a 'this is water' as opposed to the originally linked Image in Reddit (the thread starter image, i.imgur.com/A8n6o.png) which is not water, but is instead something artificial. The image Alfred used is water | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 21:00 | comment | added | Nav | @JonStory: The image Alfred used, is present in the link that "WholeWideWorld" has posted as a link (first comment on Reddit) | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 14:05 | comment | added | Jon Story | @Nav the image in this answer does show water. The Reddit post you linked uses this image as a "This is what it really looks like" as a rebuttal to the other image in that thread which does not show water. (Unless I've missed an edit and the images have been swapped) | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 12:03 | comment | added | Xen2050 | Actually, if you're 1mm tall, you'd probably eventually see what looks like giant insects fly/crawl past (unless it's a bug-free clean/sealed room) @corsiKa The question has to be at least...... three times bigger than this! | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 16:49 | comment | added | corsiKa | What is this, an answer for ants?! | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 12:23 | comment | added | Alfred Espinosa | As your link says (reddit one), if the surface is hydrophobic, and the droplet is small enough it will defy gravity and make a perfect sphere. Still is possible to be photoshop jaja Edit from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_angle: "Similarly, if we remove a small enough amount of liquid from a drop, the contact line will still be pinned, and the contact angle will decrease." | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 12:03 | comment | added | Nav | That image does not depict water: reddit.com/comments/pbth1/an_ant_pushing_a_water_droplet. Liquids have a contact angle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_angle | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 1:27 | comment | added | zipzit | The characteristic you are really interested in is surface tension. That is a constant, but you are exactly right, drops from a water faucet would be huge, because of that characteristic. Do note, it's because of the nature of surface tension that makes Giant Ants impossible. (Them!) | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 17:54 | comment | added | Guntram Blohm | This is, in fact, the easiest way to check. Open a faucet just a tad so it starts dripping. The size of water drops is almost constant, so you can easily find out not only that your size has changed, but also by how much. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 17:50 | comment | added | user1717828 | Great answer. Almost nothing would be the same at those scales, but assuming you need to drink water every day, this would be the most obvious. If you don't need to drink water, well then, that's your answer! | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 17:50 | comment | added | T3 H40 | Welcome to Worldbuilding, Alfred! Despite being short, I think this is a nice and useful answer! | |
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| Apr 25, 2016 at 17:41 | history | answered | Alfred Espinosa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
