Comments on Puzzle #8498: Conserve...
By Tom O'Connell (sensei69)
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: line logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
Puzzle Description:
our precious water.
#1: ant (agrest272) on Apr 21, 2010
i think i just did a puzzle like this? I'll let adam find it and post the puzzle number haha#2: Jota (jota) on Apr 21, 2010
I did one, # 4130.#3: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Apr 21, 2010
sorry Jota, but think mine is better lol#4: Ga Hendrick (GaHendrick) on Apr 21, 2010
however didn't see yours till now
Again, a simple image well done. Thanks.#5: Alison Deem (Indigo) on Apr 21, 2010
Thanks so much for the message. We need to hear it over and over again.#6: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Apr 21, 2010
:) Alison#7: Ruby Hammer (rubyqhammer) on Apr 21, 2010
Awesome puzzle Tom.#8: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Apr 21, 2010
what is in the upper left corner#9: Michael Williams (realitygap) on Apr 21, 2010 [SPOILER]
Tom, it is impossible to waste water. It is called the Law of the Conservation of Matter. The amont of water on Earth is the same today as it was a million years ago. This is a closed system.#10: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Apr 22, 2010
Fill a glass with water and leave it on a counter in a short time the water will "disappear". Did it get wasted? Where did it go? And, more importantly, will it ever come back?
Of course it will.
i'll stand corrected, Michael ...... i'll just take a bath#11: Jota (jota) on Apr 22, 2010 [SPOILER]
Contaminated water on the other hand ...#12: sdubois (sdubois) on Apr 22, 2010
Nice puzzle to solve on Earth Day. :)#13: Jan Wolter (jan) on Oct 21, 2010 [SPOILER]
Re #9: Silly semantic argument. Clearly everyone in the history of the earth who ever spoke about "wasting water" was speaking of fresh, potable water. Only a tiny fraction of the Earth's water falls into that category, in many parts of the world it is a very scarce resource, and in many others it is not entirely cheap to produce and maintain. It is certainly possible to waste it.#14: larrry grizzard (gizzard) on Sep 16, 2011
If we accepted Michael's argument, then we'd pretty much have to discard the idea of "waste" altogether. All matter and energy are conserved. Luckily the word doesn't mean what Michael pretends to think it does, so we can keep it.
Quibble, quibble, quibble. I'm going to go and save some water by taking a shower with a friend.#15: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Sep 16, 2011
best statement yet, larrrrrrry#16: Byrdie (byrdie) on Sep 16, 2011
Tongue baths save even more water.#17: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Feb 22, 2018
Great illustration.#18: James Ernst (siegfried) on Mar 24, 2019 [SPOILER]
To pedant the pedant...
It is certainly possible to destroy water. Send an electrical charge through it and you get independent hydrogen and oxygen. The water is destroyed.
Also, the law of conservation of mass is incomplete. It is more correct to say that the sum of mass and energy must be conserved in a closed system.
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