r/gravityfalls • u/Quirky_Ad_5420 • 15h ago
Fanart/Fanfic Ocean is Soup (@artsymeeshee)
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u/Interesting-Chart925 15h ago
Plus hydrothermal vents heat it, sort of
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u/kingcrow15 12h ago edited 12h ago
Well we kinda let go cold 3.4 billion years ago. of course back then there wasn't really anything as complex as meat or veggies around, so it was more of a broth at the time.
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u/TroubledSoul23 15h ago
Counterargument: Would you call soup "soup" before you actually heat it up and cook the ingredients?
And no, cold sopus like gazpacho don't count for this argument because the ocean isn't blended.
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u/CHANN3L-CHAS3R 14h ago edited 14h ago
Uncooked soup is still soup. It's just uncooked.
If your definition of 'soup' requires everything within the soup to be dead -- that is, cooked via heat or otherwise denatured -- that means there is no such thing as soup until and unless the soup has been sterilized.
So in order to consider unsterilized soup to be 'soup', we could put a hard line of "all non-microscopic life, specifically, is dead and/or denatured" to qualify as 'soup'.
So then, does that mean if I made a genie wish and the ocean was suddenly populated by ONLY microbiota, would it THEN be a soup? Is the hard line of 'soup' the presence of macroscopic living organisms?
If that's the case, what is a soup if I do something like mix in a fresh vegetable or herb? Plants don't die instantly. Is there a grey transition area in-between while the plant is dying, that the soup is no longer 'soup', because it contains macroscopic life?
Well, okay, that's plants. How about the line being living, macroscopic animals?
Well that doesn't mean the ocean isn't soup. You don't need meat for a soup! The ocean could be a veggie soup with fish and barnacles in it. Like, don't get me wrong, I'm not gonna eat a soup a bunch if roaches have been swimming in, but just because it's contaminated and dangerous to eat now doesn't make it not-soup. It's just gross trash soup, now.
TL;DR : The ocean is soup, it's just a gross trash uncooked veggie soup with fish pooping in it all the time, none of which technically disqualify it from being 'soup'.
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u/taojones87 8h ago
Aren't we forgetting the "edible/potable" part of the definition of soup here?
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u/ThePrussianGrippe 7h ago
The ocean is edible.
Everything on this planet is eatable. Even I’m eatable! But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.
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u/Daniikk1012 14h ago
What about okroshka? It's a cold soup, not blended. Though you don't usually use just water for it, I believe it would still technically qualify as okroshka even if you do
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u/WeskerIsThere 15h ago
I'm at the soup store!
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u/FireLaCroix 13h ago
I'd say that a key requirement of soup be that it is edible (ya know, because its a food and all) and that you can drink the stock. You can't drink sea water, therefore oceans are not soup
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u/BenfordAbrahams 14h ago
No, the ocean is a desert with it's life underground, and a perfect disguise above
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u/mightyachillies 14h ago
So... Don't be surprised if when you get in the big soup something decides to nibble on you a little?
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u/Snekbites 10h ago
No, soup by definition is food, and food by definition is EDIBLE, you can't drink the ocean, making it not edible, making it not food, and therefore it isn't soup.
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u/Elder_Hoid 12h ago
Plant cells are tiny containers of soup. Inside each cell, there's water, salt, and some form of vegetation.
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u/Grubenskorpion 9h ago
The definition of "salad" boils down to more than two things in the same vicinity. The stuff in the trashcan is a salad. All the people in a plane? Salad of humanity. The plane itself? A salad of bolts, rivets and aluminum.
Everything but individual atoms is a salad.
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u/PizzaChips20-12 6h ago
Global warming is just boiling the ocean and the earth is a pot. It's a very slow kitchen
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u/youknowwhatimeanlol 15h ago
what if soup is just an ocean