Can You Swim Uphill?

Amp34 said:
Vapour is just the term for the state the water is in, it's still water.:p
Click to expand...

dictionary defination:

A clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid, H2O, essential for most plant and animal life and the most widely used of all solvents. Freezing point 0°C (32°F); boiling point 100°C (212°F); specific gravity (4°C) 1.0000; weight per gallon (15°C) 8.338 pounds (3.782 kilograms).
Click to expand...
 
C4EVA said:
This thread scares me!! :p

kid-loves-animals.jpg
Click to expand...

1197586804920-1.jpg


Also:

junction_of_fail.jpg
 
Tefal said:
So your saying methane when compressed into a liquid becomes...

It's still water regardless of state water just refers to the H2O molecule.
Click to expand...

No, water is liquid H2O, Water Vapour is H2O in gas form, and Ice is H2O in solid form.

what do they teach at schools these days?
 
Some very pedantic replies in this thread.
Click to expand...

dictionary defination:

A clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid, H2O, essential for most plant and animal life and the most widely used of all solvents. Freezing point 0°C (32°F); boiling point 100°C (212°F); specific gravity (4°C) 1.0000; weight per gallon (15°C) 8.338 pounds (3.782 kilograms).
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
I just skim read this thread. Leaving aside the treadmills, aeroplanes and sandwiches, I think an important point has been missed.

Basically the OP was asking a hypothetical question as follows: If it were possible to put a layer of water onto an incline, would it be possible for a human to swim suffficiently strongly to overcome gravity? I think he would want to assume that the upwards motion imparted by buoyancy would be ignored.

The issue is NOT about the practicalities of setting up the thought experiment.
 
I go and watch a bit of anime and you all go make a 7 page thread on swimming uphill...

I love ocuk :)

To the OP, are you serious mon?
 
Skyfall said:
I go and watch a bit of anime and you all go make a 7 page thread on swimming uphill...

I love ocuk :)

To the OP, are you serious mon?
Click to expand...

That was one long anime session (considering this thread and all but three of the replies are over a year old).:p

EDIT: Beaten...
 
oh my, how foolish of me, I just never saw this thread before and looked at the times...

How did I miss this thread!?
 
As the surface of the Earth isn't flat, if you had a really big swimming pool (or lake I guess), and swam across it, then technically speaking you will initially swim uphill, get half way and then swim downhill.

EDIT - maybe not thinking about it. However, if the large lake was at a very slight incline, then you would be swimming up hill.

EDIT again - The water in a lake can't be at an incline, so the above is flawed, but I guess a river or stream can be at an incline, however slight.

Rgds
 
Last edited:
radderfire said:
As the surface of the Earth isn't flat, if you had a really big swimming pool (or lake I guess), and swam across it, then technically speaking you will initially swim uphill, get half way and then swim downhill.

Rgds
Click to expand...

Not quite the same thing as swimming "up a hill" though. Depends on exactly what the op means by uphill though I guess.
 
seek said:
Not quite the same thing as swimming "up a hill" though. Depends on exactly what the op means by uphill though I guess.
Click to expand...

I have corrected my erroneous theory. Swimming along a perfectly flat lake would not be going uphill at any stage because you would always be a constant distance above sealevel (or the Earth's middle point, or whatever).

As water can flow downhill you must be able to swim uphill providing you can beat the current.

Rgds
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom