If he is so sensitive he can't take someone tagging him maybe once or twice a year he shouldn't be interacting with people. And again, he claimed to have blocked me so he shouldn't have gotten a notification and the only way he would have seen the post was if he decided to reveal it to himself.
And when the fires go cold a hive fleet 10x bigger than hive fleet Behemoth will drift into the Empire and scour it clean of all of the biomass. Leaving dead balls of dirt in its wake. At the same time the largest Waaagh ever seen will sweep into Federation space and level what is left.
Meanwhile, as the Empire and Starfleet fought, Vorian Atreides and his fleet of ships with the ability to fold space instantly travel to all the key planets in the Federation and the Empire and irradiate them all with nuclear fire.
The answer depends on how the water is gonna flow down that pipe. It will either flow off into 2, cling enough to the underside and miss 2 and 3, or cling all the way down to 3.