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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If water is clear/translucent, how come things get darker when they're wet?
gpt
What we see with our eyes is the light reflecting off what we are looking at. When light hits the dry ground it scatters rather nicely. When its coated with water some of that light is absorbed and not reflected at all, some is reflected back at the surface the water is on, and this gives an overall darker appearance to the surface.