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Monday, November 17th, 2025

Live Poll: Water!

Intro:Water is essential for life on earth. We are used to consume it, often without any thought of how precious this chemical structur H2O is for any of us. From single celled organism up to the crown of creation, any single being depends on water. Without it there would be no life at all. Which fact about water surprises you the most? Please discuss it here. Click here for slideshow.Suggestions:Like in the examples. Maybe you'll find another good point and image?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4153481041/

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4153481041/copy

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/YgNqxkvkHPuHYWXTmXrokQ/

Oldest First
Selected Oldest First

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4 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto#Ideas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_water#Location

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Thank you, Mario! That was very interesting to research. I've put your ideas into the last two options. :D

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars

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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinesische_Wasserfolter

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Mario, I've put the "Chinese water torture" packed in the option about outlawed water tortures and weapon. I just don't get what you further have a point about water and Mars. Can you please give me a little idea about what you meant about? Thank you in advance.

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I've put the body-water thing at second place.

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the possibility of water existing outside planet Earth

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There is an option now: There are unmeasurable masses of water in universe

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3 months ago

Please correct #9: behavior

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I tried typing french, sorry! ;)

Corrected. I hope the rest fits.

I double checked all facts and read a lot about.

They should be all straight facts.

It took an ammount of time, gosh! :D

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  1. @Breumaster,
  2. This is a nice combination of water physics and related films.

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Thank you, Dan. It was a bunch of work to collect all the data, understand it and put it into an understandable English form.

I must admit, that I partly used chatGPT for research, when it comes to exact data like numbers and things like that. Also putting it into English was partly more easy with it. Some things I knew earlier, like water doesn't get radioactive itself.

A guy from the MUC, the Munich equivalent to the American MIT once told me that fact, when we met at the photo-club. We have an experimental reactor in Munich. On an eventual open house day, people can see the violet-blue light around the little radioactive elements, when they approach. People can see that without problem, because they all get radiometers from the crew and the radioation reaches only about 10-15 centimeters in that early state of use. It only expands and gets dangerous, when the elements turn old and spent.

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I guess you notices that this is a part of my poll row with "!":

Balls!

Fire!

Water!

Another idea could be:

Earth!

Wind!

Food!

Pizza!

Alcohol!

Smoke!

Oceans!

Animals!

Mobility!

...

We could do so many interesting fact-based polls, or polls about creativity in movies.

1000nds a finger. ;)

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At the moment my problem is time, because I got a bunch of problems around and literally have no time. And also I wouldn't make a lot of work again when the state of the forum is like that. Broken code, that makes work difficult. No option to add characters like in the holiday idea. Or the other things I mentioned. The primary problem I have is time.

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3 months ago

Correction:

chemical structur H²O 

to

chemical structure H2O

(I don't know whether the poll tool would accept the subscript number, though.)

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I was trying to write the subscript (low)

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I've corrected it. H2O, ok.

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Also structure.

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@Peter_pbn​ 

Thank you, Peter. I've corrected "structure".

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2 months ago

@Breumaster​ ,I REALLY like you poll suggestion. I tried to push it for Wednesday. Unfortunately, I receive an error message when I try to push it. Please do not make any edits to your list for the time being. The underlying problem that is causing the error needs to be resolved.

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@dan_dassow​ 

That's nice Dan. I won't change the list in any kind until you tell me to do so.

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@Breumaster​,

I've given up on IMDb correcting the problem that polls cannot have non-ASCII Unicode characters. I really like your poll, and do not want to wait any longer for IMDb to correct the problem. Please make the following edits:Google Gemini scanned your IMDb list text for non-ASCII characters. These are characters that fall outside the standard 128-character ASCII set (such as special symbols, accented letters, or "smart" typography).

Below are the specific characters found and their locations within your text.

Summary of Non-ASCII Characters

Character Name / Description Context Found
° Degree Symbol 0.01 **°C, 4°**C, 4 °
En Dash Planet Mars The Martian
Right Single Quotation Mark Body**’s, cells, captive**’s, body’**s
- Soft Hyphen / Special Hyphen disruptions**-**like
Superscript Minus 10**⁻**¹² seconds
¹ Superscript One 10⁻¹² seconds
² Superscript Two 10⁻¹² seconds
Left Double Quotation Mark phases, Chinese water torture
Right Double Quotation Mark phases, Chinese water torture

Detailed Breakdown

  • Scientific Notation & Units: * The degree symbol (°) appears in the Triple Point section and the density section ($4 \text{ °C}$).

    • The time measurement for hydrogen bonds uses superscript characters: 10⁻¹².

  • Typography & Punctuation: * Smart Quotes: The text uses "curly" or "smart" quotes (“ ”) and apostrophes () instead of the standard "straight" ASCII versions (" and ').

    • Dashes: An En Dash () is used in the "The Martian" credit, and a non-standard hyphen appears in "disruptions-like."

  • Special Formatting:

    • The word "(K)now!?" in the final title contains standard ASCII, but the text surrounding the Emoto section uses the smart quotes mentioned above.

Thank you again for your understanding. Maybe some day we can convince IMDb to correct the problem.

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@dan_dassow​ 

Ok, Dan. I'll further double check, if there are problems with ASCII.

If you want, you can take my Time-Poll I made up last time.

There I checked it until last, if there are probs with ASCII.

It should be ok.

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@dan_dassow​ 

I'll correct the Water-Poll meanwhile.

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@dan_dassow​ 

Ok, Dan. I've checked it again. and re-checked and re-checked and re-checked and re-checked, ....

Now the Water-poll should be releaseable.

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@dan_dassow​ 

Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Buddies. :D

I will better take care of these characters in future.

The mere main problem is that some scientific sites 

use non ASCII-characters. An appearance which happens

also on Wikipedia, often. When I research and copy 

little parts like numbers or names from, I'll better

check and re-check. I never copy whole article texts 

due to copyright infringements and to avoid plagiarism.

Often I merge the whole research I did with chat-gpt.

That is also a source for "wrong" characters. 

Indeed the characters it uses look way better

than the ASCIIs.If one corrects texts with chat-gpt,

he/she should inform chat-gpt first to keep all safe

in ASCII.

It does like Gemini, but only if it is pre-informed

to do so. You have to tell it: "Make it so!" ;)

Greets.

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@Breumaster​ 

Sorry we missed this, but Hot water can freeze faster than cold water (Mpemba effect) is listed twice at #10 and #11. Fortunately, option 10 (Hero) still has zero votes. If you could please find another fact and replace it as soon as possible.

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@Jessica​ 

Hi, Jessica. I replaced #10 with the original text I was able to restore. It got lost because I was overtired. You can re-push it now. Thank you for pointing out. I wrote a text that sure is ASCII-Konform. It just needed a little change at the power of ten part.