Sense
This picture makes none
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Pretty sure I had that demotivational poster saved on an old laptop. Good memories.
Those were the days.
Back when we called them "demotivationals" instead of "memes"
God I loved demotivational posters
Pouring water from one container to another is an attribute of Temperance, a major arcana tarot card. Edit: And, of course, the Tarot depiction comes from the virtue itself. The card represents balance first and foremost, so Anakin being supposed to bring balance to the force immediately springs to mind.
I'm sure that if I wasn't as tired as I am right now, I could come up with a plausible theory for him standing in the sea. Beach/sand connection maybe? I'll leave that to someone else.
But I do believe you can eke out some sense out of this picture if you really try.
Did you say SAND?!
I think the sea connection is not the sand, but the fact that it is not drinkable. So he's here, standing in a literal sea of water he shouldn't drink, measuring out and sorting the pure filtered water he should drink. And why the careless attitude you may ask? Because it allows a bit of seawater in and it doesn't kill you too have a bit of the profane world in your filtered experience. Temperantia in temperantia.
Yes it does. He is clearly trying to filter the saltwater with the Brita filter to try to make it potable so he can drink it for later.
What’s going on later that requires some water to be drank?
Go ahead - YOU try going around in that very black suit under a hot sun without drinking any water.
Oh, right, hydration. I forgot.
Exactly! Except... shouldn't it go the other way for that!?!
Once it’s been filtered I guess he’d pour it back into the other container to give it a second pass? Shit, I dunno.
To be fair, I didn't say that it would work, I just said that is what Darth Vader was trying to do in his own head.
Indeed, hisssss helmet filtration device would also have worked to purify the water...
I fucking love the quietly chaotic energy of this! 😄
This is the highest quality version of it I've seen.
People are complaining about this, but it makes a lot of sense. Normally, you can't use reverse osmosis to turn salt water in to fresh water without some form of power to overcome osmotic pressure, and that's what makes reverse osmosis desalination a challenge to implement at scale.
Darth Vader is demonstrating that with the addition of The Force, it becomes possible to create the pressure required for reverse osmosis to occur without needing a battery or power supply, and thus, fresh water from the ocean!
Through Vader, all things are possible, so jot that down
Can a Brita remove dissolved salt?
they're intended to "remove" calcium and magnesium salt ions by exchanging them with sodium ions from the ion exchange resin beads in the filter, thereby softening the water (and to most people making it taste better)
however ion exchange uses osmosis to function. you can "recharge" an ion exchange resin by putting it in a brine with a super high sodium concentration, causing the exchange to run in reverse (the sodium ions will replace the calcium and magnesium in the resin instead of the other way 'round).
so in this photo, the filter is removing salt the opposite way it normally does lol
Very cool to learn!
have personally recharged the ion resin in a Brita filter by soaking it in table salt brine. was a financial godsend when I lived in Arizona, where tap water tastes like eating chalk in the pool
I'm super lucky my tap water is considered some of the best in the country.
Stopped using a filter since leaving Orlando.
I've read once somewhere that a lot of these weird photos used for demotivators came from challenges in GISHWHES.
2011 to 2022 though, and I remember this picture (and similar) popping up while I was in high school a couple+ of years prior, so that doesn't line up.
I love that the weirdness comes from a contest that originated from Castiel trying to get a People's Choice Award for Supernatural 😂
Fake and gay, to get to that water Vader would have to cross a beach full of sand which is rough and coarse and gets everywhere!
He landed his TIE near the water because it was overheating after being disabled during the Death Star battle.
WAT
This image is clearly false: Anakin wouldn't go to the beach.
I had this saved for the longest time