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MAN this aspect of waterbending has been bothering me!

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    aa_623

    [40]Sep 21, 2006
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    Hoshie26 wrote:
    One word.Waterbender.We are awesome in that way where science doesnt aply(even if we dug up einstein he could exsplain).We rock.Get over it.

    Nice.
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    UGamer08

    [41]Sep 21, 2006
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    Hoshie26 wrote:
    One word.Waterbender.We are awesome in that way where science doesnt aply(even if we dug up einstein he could exsplain).We rock.Get over it.

    One more time.????

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    C1991

    [42]Sep 28, 2006
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    I think I've figured it out! it all has to do with aang's "super speed". he decreases air resistance (a property of air) to move faster. Cohesion is a property of water, so I'm sure that waterbending could increase or decrease it
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    UGamer08

    [43]Sep 28, 2006
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    That was said on the first page. Then it was said (among other things) over and over again. There's a reason why no one's touched this for a week.
    Edited on 09/28/2006 8:32am
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    MCMLXVI

    [44]Sep 28, 2006
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    The idea of water being adhesive and cohesive lends itself to the imagination of the idea that waterbending could heal, and that waterbending could cut through metal. Water is cohesive, so it sticks to itself; it could stick together tightly or loosely. Water is adhesive, so it sticks to other things. A healing waterbender would need the external supply of water to adhere to the patient's skin while the waterbender coordinates moving the water beneath the patient's skin with moving the external supply of water.

    I could get more eggheaded, fantastically speaking, but I'd need more time than??I believe??I have right now.

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    Torizzllle

    [45]Sep 28, 2006
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    well this show isnt really based on something from real life, its just fictional, so maybe in this fictional world water could do something with that as long as you could "bend" it, cause i mean theres not really any people who can make rocks shoot out of the earth like earthbenders do or people who can make fire apper out of there hands,
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    UGamer08

    [46]Sep 28, 2006
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    To quote from Kel Mitchell, "Awh here it goes."
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    cg_619

    [47]Sep 28, 2006
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    well the reason the water can cut threw metal and grasp peoples arms??is because??ITS A??CARTOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    UGamer08

    [48]Sep 28, 2006
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    See previous line.
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    MCMLXVI

    [49]Sep 28, 2006
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    cg_619 wrote:
    well the reason the water can cut threw metal and grasp peoples arms??is because??ITS A??CARTOON
    I despise that excuse. It's a cartoon, but the creators had to imagine it. That imagination would need to be based on something recognizable empirically, like water adhesion, water cohesion, and the tides, and turn it into something plausible to the viewers.
    Edited on 09/29/2006 3:46pm
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    TheGreatAvatar

    [50]Nov 7, 2006
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    tigerstalksprey wrote:
    okay, airbending, earthbending, firebending, all thats pretty cool w/ me so far, but whats really bugging me about waterbending is a couple of things:

    1. in "the drill" how the heck do aang and katara make water DENSE enough to penetrate and CUT THROUGH metal!?

    2. in that episode where uncle iroh gets injured by azula, how did katara make the water GRAB onto azula's arm and prevent her from shooting a fireball at aang earlier in the fight?

    i'm sorry if there has already been a thread on this, please direct me, but the more i think about the concept of water being strong enough to grasp a persons arm, the more it irratates me. water? cmon its the 'softest' stuff in world, it'll runs right off you, you cant even grasp water itself to begin with. i know water is a huge concussive force, such as when waves crash n stuff, but when is it SHARP enough to cut through metal????????? many things arent even sharp enough to cut thru metal. someone with the answers please enlighten me



    on nick.com..they say waterbenders are capable of chnging water into mist and freeze it..theyre also capable of healing, and changing the density of water, which means they can make water a more solid like object even without freezing it
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    zingerjnr

    [51]Nov 10, 2006
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    wow waterbenders can do loads of stuff I WANNA BE ONE! haha
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    panicked_12

    [52]Nov 10, 2006
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    dont we all wanna be

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    Symstar

    [53]Dec 25, 2006
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    Yep, water benders rule! They dominate... Wish more of them in Avatar had Azula's drive tho.... cause they'd be unstoppable.
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    Eman5805

    [54]Dec 25, 2006
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    Symstar wrote:
    Yep, water benders rule! They dominate... Wish more of them in Avatar had Azula's drive tho.... cause they'd be unstoppable.

    You bumped this thread just to tell a bold faced lie? Cuz Earthbenders run this(whatever "this" is is up to your own discretion). Don't forget: Earth Kingdom is Forever. And Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it.

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    Miroku_of_Nite1

    [55]Jan 2, 2007
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    Eman5805 wrote:

    Symstar wrote:
    Yep, water benders rule! They dominate... Wish more of them in Avatar had Azula's drive tho.... cause they'd be unstoppable.

    You bumped this thread just to tell a bold faced lie? Cuz Earthbenders run this(whatever "this" is is up to your own discretion). Don't forget: Earth Kingdom is Forever. And Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it.


    If by forever you mean fell in a day then yes.
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