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− | Yet another comic with one of [[Beret Guy|Beret Guy's]] [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]]. This time he attracts water so it flows to him rather than running out towards the nearby oceans. He thus claims he is an {{w| | + | {{incomplete|Created by an ENDORHEIC BASIN. Does colonial engineers refer to something in mine craft? More on that part of the title text. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | Yet another comic with one of [[Beret Guy|Beret Guy's]] [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]]. This time he attracts water so it flows to him rather than running out towards the nearby oceans. He thus claims he is like an {{w|Endorheic basin}}, hence the title. | ||
− | An endorheic basin is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation. The {{w|Caspian Sea}} in | + | An endorheic basin is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation. The {{w|Caspian Sea}} in Europe is the largest such basins. It is debated if it is a lake or a sea (it is salty, but not connected to the oceans). If a lake it is the world largest lake. |
− | + | An endorheic basin does though not suck water away from the sea. Rather rivers nearby flow to this low lying area inland, from where the water level will never rise enough for the water to continue to flow out into an ocean. Evaporation or drainage into the ground keeps the water level from reaching a height that can connect the water surface to a channel to any ocean. | |
− | + | So in this way Beret Guy's effect on water has nothing to do with the reason and Endorheic basin is created. | |
− | In | + | In the comic [[Megan]] asks why he has water over his feet. And he thus explains the Endorheic basin story. He even demonstrates by putting his hand close to a glass of water Megan is holding, showing her how he attracts some of the water out of the glass, and on to his arm. |
− | + | He also shows how water will stay on him after a bath. This looks similar to what could happen in a space station if you have liquid water in zero gravity. The water sticks to any surface it encounters. It seems like the water stays away from his upper face, leaving his nose free to breathe. Else it would also be a very dangerous thing from him to take a shower. It is thus almost impossible from him to dry off after a shower. | |
− | + | In fact he needs someone to come with a {{w|siphon}} to get rid of the water. Here most likely in the form off a u-shaped pipe, that can be put into his water blob and then by sucking on the other end, keeping the bottom of that end below the blob, the water can be drained away. Given the fact that he attracts the water more than gravity, this method should not work at all. | |
− | + | But he really needs to get the water away from him. If he just leaves it there it will eventually evaporate. Water from rivers carry salt, and if they end up in a closed lake, and that lake then evaporates it can create {{w|Salt pan (geology)|salt flats}} (or salt pans), like those near {{w|Salt Lake City}} in {{w|Utah}}. For instance {{w|Bonneville Salt Flats}}. | |
− | + | If Beret Guy just leaves the water on him to dry out, he will get these salt flats, which is probably bad for his skin. But he has developed some previously and then harvested the minerals. Because he asks Megan to let him know if she needs any minerals, implying he has plenty to give away due to those salt flats he has developed earlier. | |
− | This comic came out just a bit more than a month after the previous comic with one of Beret Guy's strange powers, [[2310: Great Attractor]], in | + | In the title text Beret Guy list his biggest fear and hope based on his water ability. |
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+ | He fears that colonial engineers will try to flood him to generate electricity. Generating electricity from flowing water is very common. | ||
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+ | On the other hand he hopes that he will generate {{w|Sailing stones}}. Sailing stones (also known as sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks), are a geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention. The movement of the rocks occurs when large ice sheets a few millimeters thick and floating in an ephemeral winter pond start to break up during sunny days. Frozen during cold winter nights, these thin floating ice panels are driven by wind and shove rocks at speeds up to 5 meters per minute. It do not sound like something attracting water (even if creating salt flats) can accomplish. | ||
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+ | This comic came out just a bit more than a month after the previous comic with one of Beret Guy's strange powers, [[2310: Great Attractor]]. Which is interesting since the previous comic with such a power came back in November 2017, [[1922: Interferometry]] more than 2.5 years before. Also in the Great Attractor comic strange forces exerted a pull on Beret Guy, although in that it was he who was affected more, this time it is nearby water that is affected. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Megan, holding a glass of water up in one hand | + | :[Megan, holding a glass of water up in one hand is talking to Beret Guy, who has water surrounding his feet, with small droplets falling off the two small water triangles that cover his feet.] |
:Megan: Why are your feet wet? | :Megan: Why are your feet wet? | ||
:Beret Guy: I'm an endorheic basin! | :Beret Guy: I'm an endorheic basin! | ||
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:Megan: Oh, cool. | :Megan: Oh, cool. | ||
− | :[At the top of this panel is a box with text being said by Beret Guy to Megan. Beneath it is a depiction of what he is explaining to Megan. Beret Guy is shown standing in a bathroom, with a towel around his waist. Almost his entire body is covered completely in water, except most of his head above mouth level, and both his feet are beneath the water bubble. He | + | :[At the top of this panel is a box with text being said by Beret Guy to Megan in the situation from the previous panels. Beneath it is a depiction of what he is explaining to Megan. Beret Guy is shown standing in a bathroom, with a towel around his waist. Almost his entire body is covered completely in water, except most of his head above mouth level, and both his feet are beneath the water bubble. He yeels to someone outside the bathroom. A bathtub can be seen to the left behind a closed shower curtain. To the right of him is the hand-wash with mirror above it. Further right is the door out. The floor is tiled.] |
− | :Beret Guy - narrating: The most annoying part is drying off after a shower | + | :Beret Guy - narrating: The most annoying part is drying off after a shower") |
:Beret Guy: Can someone bring me the siphon? | :Beret Guy: Can someone bring me the siphon? | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]] | ||
[[Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy]] | [[Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy]] | ||
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