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--Chapter One, "The Coin", by Muphrid; see also "Joy in the Merely Real"
Taboo dry -- does that mean “containing little water” or “containing little liquid water”?
Either, when it comes to the part of Antarctica in question.
And glass is a slowly flowing liquid.
No it isn't.. But from that same 'misconceptions' list I discovered that meteorites aren't hot when they hit the earth - they are more likely to be below freezing. "Melf" had been deceiving me all this time.
Rephrasing:
Your point is that this heuristic will leave you vulnerable to believing false beliefs you come in contact with? (Good point!)
That could have been more clearly put the first time...
Huh? That doesn't seem strange at all. It's the first place I would have guessed - based on it being really extreme, really big and really cold.
I guess I can't get so much of "truth is strange, update!" kick out of this one as intended...
"Cold" isn't typically associated with "dry" in most people's mental maps, as rain tends to be cold, and snow is very cold, and even the most commonly encountered form of ice (icecubes) melts quick enough too; and therefore generally most of everyday coldness gets anti-associated with dryness.
Ofcourse Antarctica is not everyday coldness - the ice in most of Antarctica is very far from temperatures that would make it liquid... But I understand how it could surprise someone who hadn't thought it through.