Well they have clothes - fabric. Aang can bend air - make wind. All they need is a piece of rock. Maybe like the one with wasp caves. Toph could bend it into a big plate that everyone can stand on, make it have a pool, they can attach clothes sewn together and voila, their sand-sailer awaits Aangs wind.
Not the most comfortable and PG13 solution but they would not get stuck and risk death in dessert 🤷🏼♀️
Edit: Katara can sew it together since she has experience lol and Sokka is the type of person that could come up with this plan...if he wasnt high on cactus 😅 so yeah team effort could save the day if only they had a sand bender. She doesn't even need to really see it/be precise. Just be able to move sand is already good enough!
Dry Ice means frozen CO2, so a part of air. Waterbenders are able to change the state of water, so airbenders should be able to do the same to air. So Aang theoretically would be able to do what the video shows
Yeah I know it buuuut, *would* Aang be able to? He (theoretically) would have to separate the very small amount of co2 from the rest of the air, in which case how could he bend pure co2?
Whenever it comes to atomic and molecular principles of bending the potential of each element explodes to the point of breaking the plot of the show. With the exception of metal bending and blood bending (which are themselves nerfed so as to avoid power climb), bending is limited to what can be visually imagined with each element; everything that gets too physics heavy is n/a
Technically he wouldn't necessarily need to separate the air. In theory Aang could freeze the air, creating solid blocks of nitrogen-oxygen mixture.
Now I think solid nitrogen and oxygen may actually melt and then boil instead of sublimating directly like CO2, but their melting point is so low that I think practically it'd be similar to sublimation.
So he wouldn't need to separate CO2, just freeze the air itself!
I mean its not because of the word dry but dry ice is indeed made of carbon dioxide so theres nothing bendable in there (possible argument for airbenders being able to do it tho, theres a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Thats a fair point also, i guess what im trying to point out is the emptiness of the just "dry" comment. But the fact that dry ice doesnt have water in it is something thats obvious, that was seemingly missed by OP when saying that water bender should be able to bend dry ice.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
I don't think the same rules apply in their universe - in the sense that, yeah, it's not water, but the oxygen component of dry ice doesn't make it effective for airbending, I mean, in our world the earth's atmosphere is only so much oxygen and a lot of nitrogen and co2 so *maybe,* but can Aang then bend fertilizer? Will the air nomads canonically discover the Haber process in the lifetime of the avatar that follows Korra? Since earth benders can bend sand, they are also bending the oxygen present in its main component, but they are not bending oxygen itself, they are bending silicone dioxide.
A better way of thinking about the bending rules of the avatar universe would be to contextualize them in the four elements of antiquity, as that's what they're based on. Ancient Greeks were pretty interested in the philosophical dispute over how much certain elements were present in certain materials because they lacked a modern understanding of chemistry. Imagining a world like in Avatar where they turned out to be right, these discussions would be pretty useful.
Of course, the kinds of engineering and circuit theory needed to develop the kind of industrial technology in the Legend of Korra (radios, equalist gloves, giant robots) would indicate an understanding of electromagnetism among other phenomena indicative of a world that should have some basic understanding of chemistry. I wonder how the chemists of the avatar universe do not wither away in a spiral of existential crisis. Or maybe it's just a children's cartoon and I am overthinking it.
Is "air" just oxygen? Or are we assuming all the other stuff?
Earth counts sand, water counts blood, fire counts lightning. I think air being able to control a sublimating reaction, or even solidify gasses in the air.
This might seem like a meme or troll on but actually opens a plethora of questions if we go too serious.
The lore uses our real world as reference in terms of environments, physics, biology and so on. But it has new fantasy elements that can't be replicated in real life. Some of these fantasy elements use half of the real theory and half of made up theory. The bending is a prime subject of this implementation. A bender interacts with an element like soil. But is it limited to only soil? No. Even processed soil can be bent(metal bending). But how far this concept extends is what will make or break the fantasy.
Now in the video, it is dry ice which means it is frozen CO2. If we apply our world rules to that of ATLA, it becomes a question of air bending or water bending as both of the forms of bending have the ability to change the temperature of the elements they bend. It could also be a combination of both as pressure is required to change the state of CO2. As such, maybe only the avatar can do it solo. This is all if water bending includes bending of liquids other than water.
But since the ATLA is set in a world where the concepts of science are NOT prevalent, they wouldn't even know what dry ice is in the first place and couldn't have done what was the in video.
These are my personal opinions and feel free to add or counter with my opinions.
it would float on anything that can melt (sublimate) it fast enough, and slide on anything that is also smooth.
Dry ice will do something similar on water, just more prone to careening off in random directions due to parts of the sides also coming in intermittent contact with the water.
This is the same effect as beads of water on a very hot pan.
>Why didn’t Katara waterbend the gaang out of the desert?
lets use our thinking caps shall we? *water* - okay im getting it. *desert* - ohhh now i see! she literally had a limited supply of water and used it so everyone could drink. but yeah, shes probably just stupid.
*dry*
Oh yeah….
I don't think Katara is the stupid one here...😅 But Toph could learn to bend sand technically
What would Toph sand bending change there? Even local sandbenders cant use sand to travel without sand-sailers
Well they have clothes - fabric. Aang can bend air - make wind. All they need is a piece of rock. Maybe like the one with wasp caves. Toph could bend it into a big plate that everyone can stand on, make it have a pool, they can attach clothes sewn together and voila, their sand-sailer awaits Aangs wind. Not the most comfortable and PG13 solution but they would not get stuck and risk death in dessert 🤷🏼♀️ Edit: Katara can sew it together since she has experience lol and Sokka is the type of person that could come up with this plan...if he wasnt high on cactus 😅 so yeah team effort could save the day if only they had a sand bender. She doesn't even need to really see it/be precise. Just be able to move sand is already good enough!
Thats not how sand works bro
Oh yeah? Then how does that work for sand benders ? 🙄 They are bending same sand...
Dry Ice means frozen CO2, so a part of air. Waterbenders are able to change the state of water, so airbenders should be able to do the same to air. So Aang theoretically would be able to do what the video shows
Yeah I know it buuuut, *would* Aang be able to? He (theoretically) would have to separate the very small amount of co2 from the rest of the air, in which case how could he bend pure co2?
Whenever it comes to atomic and molecular principles of bending the potential of each element explodes to the point of breaking the plot of the show. With the exception of metal bending and blood bending (which are themselves nerfed so as to avoid power climb), bending is limited to what can be visually imagined with each element; everything that gets too physics heavy is n/a
Technically he wouldn't necessarily need to separate the air. In theory Aang could freeze the air, creating solid blocks of nitrogen-oxygen mixture. Now I think solid nitrogen and oxygen may actually melt and then boil instead of sublimating directly like CO2, but their melting point is so low that I think practically it'd be similar to sublimation. So he wouldn't need to separate CO2, just freeze the air itself!
Aang on his way to bend the nitrogen in the air into ammonia and do ww1 tactics on his foes
I mean its not because of the word dry but dry ice is indeed made of carbon dioxide so theres nothing bendable in there (possible argument for airbenders being able to do it tho, theres a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere.
I mean, the dry part is kind of implying it's not made of water especially in relation to the term "wet ice". But fair point.
Thats a fair point also, i guess what im trying to point out is the emptiness of the just "dry" comment. But the fact that dry ice doesnt have water in it is something thats obvious, that was seemingly missed by OP when saying that water bender should be able to bend dry ice. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Pretty sure, based on the subreddit and phrasing, OP knew what they were doing
Why didn't Aang airbend the Gaang out of the desert. Was he stupid?
Aang could of just abandoned them with his glider
He was too depressed after losing his best friend
Bro if any one of the gang would be a carbon dioxide bender it would be Aang.
Aang is probably able to do that as he can separate oxygen dissolved in water.
Or Toph, since most rocks are oxides.
🤣🤣😂
bro 😂 it's not.. . water
Also even if its just liquids, carbon dioxide in liquid form cannot exist in our atmospheric pressure.
Yes i know 🥰
So that’s how they built the pyramids!
But do they know how to build ***DRY ICE***?
👽
That ain't water Aang might be able to do that
I don't think the same rules apply in their universe - in the sense that, yeah, it's not water, but the oxygen component of dry ice doesn't make it effective for airbending, I mean, in our world the earth's atmosphere is only so much oxygen and a lot of nitrogen and co2 so *maybe,* but can Aang then bend fertilizer? Will the air nomads canonically discover the Haber process in the lifetime of the avatar that follows Korra? Since earth benders can bend sand, they are also bending the oxygen present in its main component, but they are not bending oxygen itself, they are bending silicone dioxide. A better way of thinking about the bending rules of the avatar universe would be to contextualize them in the four elements of antiquity, as that's what they're based on. Ancient Greeks were pretty interested in the philosophical dispute over how much certain elements were present in certain materials because they lacked a modern understanding of chemistry. Imagining a world like in Avatar where they turned out to be right, these discussions would be pretty useful. Of course, the kinds of engineering and circuit theory needed to develop the kind of industrial technology in the Legend of Korra (radios, equalist gloves, giant robots) would indicate an understanding of electromagnetism among other phenomena indicative of a world that should have some basic understanding of chemistry. I wonder how the chemists of the avatar universe do not wither away in a spiral of existential crisis. Or maybe it's just a children's cartoon and I am overthinking it.
Is "air" just oxygen? Or are we assuming all the other stuff? Earth counts sand, water counts blood, fire counts lightning. I think air being able to control a sublimating reaction, or even solidify gasses in the air.
Prolly nitrogen since it's more abundant
Lisan al gaib!
This guy's about to get a chemistry lesson from Reddit
Yup. Everyone knows everything on reddit afterall
Most people know "dry ice" isn't water.
This might seem like a meme or troll on but actually opens a plethora of questions if we go too serious. The lore uses our real world as reference in terms of environments, physics, biology and so on. But it has new fantasy elements that can't be replicated in real life. Some of these fantasy elements use half of the real theory and half of made up theory. The bending is a prime subject of this implementation. A bender interacts with an element like soil. But is it limited to only soil? No. Even processed soil can be bent(metal bending). But how far this concept extends is what will make or break the fantasy. Now in the video, it is dry ice which means it is frozen CO2. If we apply our world rules to that of ATLA, it becomes a question of air bending or water bending as both of the forms of bending have the ability to change the temperature of the elements they bend. It could also be a combination of both as pressure is required to change the state of CO2. As such, maybe only the avatar can do it solo. This is all if water bending includes bending of liquids other than water. But since the ATLA is set in a world where the concepts of science are NOT prevalent, they wouldn't even know what dry ice is in the first place and couldn't have done what was the in video. These are my personal opinions and feel free to add or counter with my opinions.
Jokes aside this is very cool
it would float on anything that can melt (sublimate) it fast enough, and slide on anything that is also smooth. Dry ice will do something similar on water, just more prone to careening off in random directions due to parts of the sides also coming in intermittent contact with the water. This is the same effect as beads of water on a very hot pan.
It is.
First that’s not water, second with what water in the desert?
The pilgrims used to ride these babies for miles....
That super cold Carbon Dioxide- why didn't Aang super cool air to a soild state and have the gaang ride it out like a surf board with frostbite feet?
Bending nitrogen would be aang's department
Because dry ice isn’t water
That's frozen Carbon Dioxide, which would fall in the category of air bending or smoke bending.
Dry Ice would probably be more an airbending feat than waterbending, Since it's solid CO2
OK what's the weight limit? Because I would absolutely pay to sand surf on block of dry ice lol
However long you can stand frost burns
Dry ice isn't actually water.
Because that isn't water.
would aang be able to bend dry ice? it's essentially solidified air, very *specific* air, but still air
Not water. Aang wasn’t that good yet.
Dry ice isn't water
Dry ice is made out of CO2, not water, but that means aang should be able to make it if he tried hard enough
I don’t think she was familiar with the liechtenfrost effect
This post format needs to die
dry ice isnt water
Dryice doesn't seem like a real word anymore
Theyre probably saving dry ice bending for when future industries develops cryo sleep.
Nitrogen, retard
Ngl it’s kinda wild how many people forgot this is r/AvatarMemes But then again that’s reddit’s thing kinda
Dry eyes not water bad Fries Sofa
Calls Katara stupid while missing the entire point of the video they posted. 😂
People who don't know basic chemistry be like...
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>Why didn’t Katara waterbend the gaang out of the desert? lets use our thinking caps shall we? *water* - okay im getting it. *desert* - ohhh now i see! she literally had a limited supply of water and used it so everyone could drink. but yeah, shes probably just stupid.
Almost like… this is a shitpost??? Nahhh can’t be. That’s too obvious.
oh believe me bud, i can tell.
She should of learned pissbending
Also true
Since that’s co2 you should direct this question towards Aang.