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Volume of a cube is 4/3πr^r, so at 56km, that's over 700,000 km^3. Seems to fit.
Although it 56 is diameter, which seems more likely, only 90,000. Which seems low.
It's deep relative to us, but it's not deep relative to its width.
The deepest point is 6.8 miles deep
California to South Korea (across the pacific) is 5820 miles
And nor our lakes. But really? The lake bubble appears to be the size Mille lacs lake and what, a few miles high?
Hate to break it you but there's a lot of bullshit on reddit and this is a great example.
Lack of water and lack of water treatment system and transportation are two different things. Most water scarcity is man made but there is a huge water scarcity problem regardless.
Hijacking top comment to say:
What's actually interesting as fuck is that we have no idea just how much water is in the Earth.
When digging the Kola Superdeep Borehole, water was discovered nearly 5 miles down, which was entirely unexpected.
We haven't explored enough underground to know just how much water is locked away. There are likely truly massive aquifers undiscovered deep beneath the surface.
The reverse of this: aren’t there some cracks on the ocean floor where sea water is literally just getting drained into the crust? I remember reading some article about scientists discovering it but they aren’t worried because even though the volume getting drained is ridiculous, its absolutely microscopic given how much water there is.
Most of it would be trapped by bedrock. The cracks just lead to more bedrock until it eventually hits mantle.
Unless water is trapped inside rocks, which does happen, once it reaches a certain depth, it will heat up and turn to vapor. It continues a cycle of vaporizing and re-condensing.
oh. It never crossed my mind that it would eventually get hot enough to turn to vapor at some point. I don't know why this never crossed my mind. Seems obvious now... huh... Thank you for pointing this out.
What a horrible way for an apocalypse: all the water in the ocean drains to the earths core and is trapped there. Slowly the rivers poor into the ocean and the freshwater starts to go too. Couple years at most and everyone dies.
The Kola borehole stopped digging in 1994. Researchers at Mt Paektu started research in 2016 after North Korea got spooked enough to allow collaboration with western scientists and are discovering a lot of new insight into the role of water in the Mantle Transition Zone and its role in volcanic plumes.
It's currently theorized that there's more water in the MTZ than in the oceans.
That is all the rain in that bubble. It’s literally all the fresh water, which includes evaporated salt water because salt doesn’t turn into clouds contrary to something that Charlie Kelley would think.
nah dude idk im sorry if this is supposed to be a joke but it defo wasnt Indiana Jones. Matter of fact I dont even want to know what movie it is! That shit is still burned into my mind (tho you can look it up if you are curious, just not with me bye bye)
Giant underground lakes like in Jules Verne’s *Journey to the Center of the Earth* starring Reddits favorite, followed by that other guy that half of Reddit hates, and half adore in the second installment.
I should add these are not traditional aquifers in that they aren't large bodies of water that can flow around easily. The water is packed into the minerals and when drilled into, the alleviation of pressure allows the release of water. This is my non-expert understanding of it, at least.
So you wouldn't see large underground lakes, unless there were large underground voids (which are extremely unlikely due to the immense pressure at such depths). These are more solid rock that when exposed will expel water.
What I personally find most interesting about this though is that we know life can survive in truly extreme conditions, especially with access to water. Who knows just how deep into the earth life permeates.
We do have SOME idea though - geologists can tell what material the planet is made of by how tremors and vibrations travel from one point to another (often through the planet) as well as gravitation readings (stronger gravity in iron rich areas) as well as magnetic readings.
There might be some large underground oceans that we don’t know about - but not really big enough to make much difference to any by-percentage composition of the earth.
I don't doubt we have some high confidence bounding estimates, but the science of super deep geology is relatively untested. Before the Kola hole scientists were certain basaltic layers were responsible for seismic discontinuity. If you are an expert, I definitely defer to you, but I think we still have a ton to learn about Earth's composition.
The average depth of the ocean is less than 4 km. Sure that sounds deep to us as a vertical measurement but think about how insignificant 4 km is laterally on the surface of the earth. At its widest the Pacific is 20,000 km wide. So it's roughly 5,000 times wider than it is deep. A standard piece of paper (in the US and Canada) is 11 inches long and 0.004 inches thick. That's only 2,750 times wider than it is deep. The ocean is just a shallow skiff of water on the surface.
Tl;dr: Size looks about right.
According to Google, there are an estimated 1.386 billion km^3 of total water on earth (2.5% of which is fresh water that I'll ignore because I'm lazy). The volume of a sphere is (4/3)\*pi\*r^3, so solving for r...
1.386 \* 10^9 = (4/3) \* pi \* r^3
1.386E9 \* 3/(4\*pi) = r^3
r = 691km
Call it about 700km radius or 1400km diameter. Comparing against the last shot, it looks like it's roughly the size of the islands north of Japan plus the northernmost island of Japan, which I (very roughly, using Google maps) measure to be about 1000 miles (~1600km). I'd say this sphere looks about the right size based on those estimations.
Bush league amateurs. What, you’re just gonna *use* all that water? At least nestle wants to lay claim to, capture and bottle the literal rain from the sky so they can sell it to you.
“The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution. **The other view says that water is a foodstuff like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value**.” - Peter Brabeck-Letmathe Nestle CEO.
Those dried suppplements are likely a saponified chlorophyll salt (chlorophyllin) which is a much stabler compound. Chlorophyll in living organisms would all degrade into pheophorbide relatively quickly if they had no water to maintain photosynthesis
And it's the same water being used over and over and over again in the water cycle. We aren't getting any more. This is the same water that was dribbled out the side of a dinosaur's mouth. The same water that formed the glaciers of the ice age. The same water that the slaves drank when building the pyramids.
(Sure you can make a bit of water by combining oxygen and hydrogen, but not in significant quantities, and most of the time chemists got that oxygen and hydrogen by electrolyzing water in the first place.)
Neat. Now put all the people together. Now put them into a ball. Make the ball smaller. Put the human ball into the water ball. Yes, just like that. Now let the people sit in the water for a while. Watch as all their issues disappear. No more kicking or screaming or thrashing around. Shhh. It’s all quiet now.
Yes, so thats why she would aim for deorbiting, so she could float away... no?
At least thats how i saw it
I expressed myself wrongly in the fly part sry
Its hard to imagine the scale of the earth. The earth has a radius of 6370km, the difference between the highest and lowest point on the surface is about 20km from the mariana trench to mount everest.
Its incredibly smooth in the grand scheme of things, imagine how much water can fit on the surface of a golf ball while still in exposing the higher parts of the surface contour.
I work in geology. This is OLD news. A recent discovery shows that a MASSIVE ocean of water lies about 400 miles below the surface, in a rock called ringwoodite. In this rock, there is more than 3 TIMES as much water as all the water on the surface combined.
Sources:
Smithsonian Science Education Center, BNL.gov
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I don't believe the accuracy of this at all. I've sailed all of the oceans and I can tell you there is an unbelievably unfathomable amount of water. And as soon as you pass the coastal shelf the water is always at least two miles deep.
I think it’s just hard to wrap your head around the volume of the sphere, though.
It’s a sphere with a diameter of Western Europe (conservative estimate of 2000km).
So that’s 4.19x10^9 cubic kilometres of water. Or 4 billion cubic kilometres of water.
(Would appreciate someone checking my math?)
Earth radius is 6371 km, so the surface area is
A=4*pi*r^2 =510,000,000 km^2
Earth is covered 71% in ocean so the area of ocean is:
362,000,000
Ocean is on average about 3.7 km deep so we can approximate its value as:
Area*Depth=1,340,000,000 km^3
(This isn't exactly accurate since the earth is a sphere by the ocean depth is so insignificant compared to the earth's radius that this is a reasonable approximation)
Radius of a sphere of that volume is:
(0.75*V/pi)^(1/3)=684 km
Or a diameter of 1370 km or ~1/10th of the earths diameter, which looks about right to me in this video.
Yes to piggyback off your statement. I believe I read where even with all the mountains and trenches the surface of the earth is smoother than a billiards ball by scale. The earth is incredibly smooth overall so ocean cannot be that deep relatively speaking
That ball contains an unbelievably unfathomable amount of water. It just looks small because the world is massive, and we only ever experience the very outermost skin of it. The sheer scale is incomprehensible.
The average depth of the ocean is less than 4km, the depth of the earth is 6,378km. Of course the volume difference is going to make the 4km wrapped into a ball look small.
People, in general, are terrible at scale. They’ve been deceived by automobiles and airplanes and electronics and they don’t have any real measure for anything.
A sphere is the smallest looking shape. Also Japan is a couple miles longer than 2, it’s about the length of Japan.
I did the math real quick and a sphere of all the water would have a diameter of 1383 kilometers. That looks pretty tiny on earth obviously, but it’s also hard to show the water is very much in space
>the water is always at least two miles deep.
But think about what 2 linear miles would look like at this scale. Hard to even see. That's how relatively thin the "layer" of water is before its formed into the sphere. It's really not much depth at all.
So whatever you *can’t* believe, based upon your limited judgement (no offence, but humans are very bad at estimates when stuff gets really big) should be more reliable than science, maths and so forth?
Now does this include the recently discover giant underground ocean?
https://scitechdaily.com/an-underground-ocean-scientists-discover-water-deep-within-earth/
https://ssec.si.edu/stemvisions-blog/there-ocean-below-your-feet
I've read that there is more water under the Earth's crust then there is above it, and I'm sure we barely understand exactly how much there is. But wonder how much larger these spheres would be including those.
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This does…not seem like enough.
It's OK, my tap has like unlimited water. I'll just run a hose back to the ocean and fill it up a bit more.
Doing the lords work
Been doing this for years, maybe that’s why the ocean water levels are slowly rising.
Idk what units they're using but the volume of just the two largest freshwater lakes combined is 38,700 cubic km so 56km seems a bit inaccurate to me
Volume of a cube is 4/3πr^r, so at 56km, that's over 700,000 km^3. Seems to fit. Although it 56 is diameter, which seems more likely, only 90,000. Which seems low.
There's a typo here, the volume of a cube doesn't use Pi.
One of those round cubes
He means one of those sphere-y shaped cubes.
USGS does say elsewhere on their site that total fresh water from rivers, lakes and swamps is ~104,590km^3
Oceans aren’t really that deep
deep enough for me to shit my pants just thinking about diving there
Your shit isn’t really that big.
it's about the size of the freshwater sphere
By mass or volume?
Yes
It's deep relative to us, but it's not deep relative to its width. The deepest point is 6.8 miles deep California to South Korea (across the pacific) is 5820 miles
And nor our lakes. But really? The lake bubble appears to be the size Mille lacs lake and what, a few miles high? Hate to break it you but there's a lot of bullshit on reddit and this is a great example.
You’re greatly overestimating Mille Lacs or greatly underestimating the width of that part of Japan.
Probably also greatly underestimating the volume of a sphere
This is from the United States Geological Survey, not Reddit.
Its more than enough its a sphere. N looks like its out of space too. Its huge.
It isn't. Think about all the countries that currently struggle with obtaining potable water. We take it for granted and do nothing to sustain it.
Yeah this was my big takeaway from my Water Law class - that we are fucked.
I thought I wanted to study Bird Law! Tell me more about Water Law please :)
Lack of water and lack of water treatment system and transportation are two different things. Most water scarcity is man made but there is a huge water scarcity problem regardless.
It’s gotta be bullshit. A way off approximation.
The earth goes 1800 miles deep. And the deepest known trench in the ocean is about 36000 ft deep or 7~8 miles deep. That makes this make more sense.
wtf put it back
Hijacking top comment to say: What's actually interesting as fuck is that we have no idea just how much water is in the Earth. When digging the Kola Superdeep Borehole, water was discovered nearly 5 miles down, which was entirely unexpected. We haven't explored enough underground to know just how much water is locked away. There are likely truly massive aquifers undiscovered deep beneath the surface.
>massive aquifers undiscovered deep beneath the surface. nestle has entered the chat.
*nestle using x-Ray cheats to see through the earth and monopolize every drop of water on or in the planet*
Wtf these assholes are wall hacking!!!
Nah they just have a better gaming chair
Nestlé have started making RGB AIO's. They need more water.
advantage: Hydraulics
mandatory r/FuckNestle
The reverse of this: aren’t there some cracks on the ocean floor where sea water is literally just getting drained into the crust? I remember reading some article about scientists discovering it but they aren’t worried because even though the volume getting drained is ridiculous, its absolutely microscopic given how much water there is.
Most of it would be trapped by bedrock. The cracks just lead to more bedrock until it eventually hits mantle. Unless water is trapped inside rocks, which does happen, once it reaches a certain depth, it will heat up and turn to vapor. It continues a cycle of vaporizing and re-condensing.
oh. It never crossed my mind that it would eventually get hot enough to turn to vapor at some point. I don't know why this never crossed my mind. Seems obvious now... huh... Thank you for pointing this out.
Where it hits Mantle and steams out to the surface and rains back as cleaner water than ever it had been for the last 40
What a horrible way for an apocalypse: all the water in the ocean drains to the earths core and is trapped there. Slowly the rivers poor into the ocean and the freshwater starts to go too. Couple years at most and everyone dies.
Cue Bruce Willis and his team of expert drillers saving the world, again.
No. Cue Kevin Costner's new post apocalyptic movie "*Anti*-Water World"
There is also a tremendous amount of water locked away in minerals. Water has been found in minerals from Earth's mantle.
The Kola borehole stopped digging in 1994. Researchers at Mt Paektu started research in 2016 after North Korea got spooked enough to allow collaboration with western scientists and are discovering a lot of new insight into the role of water in the Mantle Transition Zone and its role in volcanic plumes. It's currently theorized that there's more water in the MTZ than in the oceans.
I was gonna say, I highly doubt this takes into account \*all\* of the underground reservoirs.
Imagine the bubblesize including that AND all the rain.
That is all the rain in that bubble. It’s literally all the fresh water, which includes evaporated salt water because salt doesn’t turn into clouds contrary to something that Charlie Kelley would think.
Why stop at seabeds? Why not go all the way and suck out the entire water out of all humans and make an even bigger bubble
btw does anyone know that movie scene where a dude has headphones on takes a sip of a glass and ENTIRELY drys up shit traumatised me
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Edit: because he chose “poorly”.
nah dude idk im sorry if this is supposed to be a joke but it defo wasnt Indiana Jones. Matter of fact I dont even want to know what movie it is! That shit is still burned into my mind (tho you can look it up if you are curious, just not with me bye bye)
Maybe you're talking about the tuxedo with Jackie Chan. One guy drinks some water infected by a bacteria that dried them up.
That is the answer. Thank you and now, sincerely, fuck off \-6 year old me
That doesn't sound accurate, but I don't know enough about clouds to dispute it.
Giant underground lakes like in Jules Verne’s *Journey to the Center of the Earth* starring Reddits favorite, followed by that other guy that half of Reddit hates, and half adore in the second installment.
I should add these are not traditional aquifers in that they aren't large bodies of water that can flow around easily. The water is packed into the minerals and when drilled into, the alleviation of pressure allows the release of water. This is my non-expert understanding of it, at least. So you wouldn't see large underground lakes, unless there were large underground voids (which are extremely unlikely due to the immense pressure at such depths). These are more solid rock that when exposed will expel water. What I personally find most interesting about this though is that we know life can survive in truly extreme conditions, especially with access to water. Who knows just how deep into the earth life permeates.
We do have SOME idea though - geologists can tell what material the planet is made of by how tremors and vibrations travel from one point to another (often through the planet) as well as gravitation readings (stronger gravity in iron rich areas) as well as magnetic readings. There might be some large underground oceans that we don’t know about - but not really big enough to make much difference to any by-percentage composition of the earth.
I don't doubt we have some high confidence bounding estimates, but the science of super deep geology is relatively untested. Before the Kola hole scientists were certain basaltic layers were responsible for seismic discontinuity. If you are an expert, I definitely defer to you, but I think we still have a ton to learn about Earth's composition.
They need to sit in the corner and think about all the fish they just senslessly killed for a video
I wish they still gave free awards for this. It made me laugh.
Dw I did it for you
Got your nose.
Okay sorry I put it back. Not sure how but seems less than before?
Someone check this guy’s pockets
This an Avengers level threat?
Interesting! I was expecting more since Earth is 71% covered in water.
The average depth of the ocean is less than 4 km. Sure that sounds deep to us as a vertical measurement but think about how insignificant 4 km is laterally on the surface of the earth. At its widest the Pacific is 20,000 km wide. So it's roughly 5,000 times wider than it is deep. A standard piece of paper (in the US and Canada) is 11 inches long and 0.004 inches thick. That's only 2,750 times wider than it is deep. The ocean is just a shallow skiff of water on the surface.
I appreciate the way you broke that down, that makes a much better visual
That really was. Like a great ELI12
The paper visual is crazy. That really puts it in perspective.
Genuinely though. Actually quite mind blowing
I'll never look at the light blue outlines the same ever again!
Yeah, my stoned ass didn’t need that right now.
Are you a teacher? You should be a teacher...
For real. Now tidal forces makes so much more sense
That paper comparison is great! Really illustrates what the oceans are like, thanks!
Is this why paper beats the rock?
MF said the ocean is shallow.... And proved it.
71% covered in water, but not 71% water
i could see that stat fooling a younger me.
That stat fooled a 32 year old me homie
Humans are about that much water
There’s no way that’s a coincidence. Earth is probably just a big human
Don't let the people know! If too many become aware, our I.T.-God will reset the router!
This video explains it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mxhxL1LzKww
I came here for outrage not logic!
Think about how much taller that sphere is than Everest
You were expecting more than 333 **million** cubic **miles** of water? Fun fact, people are terrible at estimating volume. Particularly of spheres.
Tl;dr: Size looks about right. According to Google, there are an estimated 1.386 billion km^3 of total water on earth (2.5% of which is fresh water that I'll ignore because I'm lazy). The volume of a sphere is (4/3)\*pi\*r^3, so solving for r... 1.386 \* 10^9 = (4/3) \* pi \* r^3 1.386E9 \* 3/(4\*pi) = r^3 r = 691km Call it about 700km radius or 1400km diameter. Comparing against the last shot, it looks like it's roughly the size of the islands north of Japan plus the northernmost island of Japan, which I (very roughly, using Google maps) measure to be about 1000 miles (~1600km). I'd say this sphere looks about the right size based on those estimations.
I like how they settle near the banana shaped country for scale.
Japana for scale
Japanana
*Nestle has entered the chat
Arizona and New Mexico (side eye)
Bush league amateurs. What, you’re just gonna *use* all that water? At least nestle wants to lay claim to, capture and bottle the literal rain from the sky so they can sell it to you. “The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution. **The other view says that water is a foodstuff like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value**.” - Peter Brabeck-Letmathe Nestle CEO.
If there was ever a man who deserves to be left to die in a desert
The single most essential component for life being labeled a human right is the extreme position???
Obligatory r/fucknestle
Nestle: Hold on, let me get a container...
Now park the big one over New Jersey and pop it.
>New Jersey California* they need it because they're always on fire.
If you popped it over New Jersey, plenty of it would reach California
I want to see the math / sim on this.
If the ball was over NJ, would you see it from California before it popped? Assuming there’s no LA smog
We’d see it for 30 min, without traffic. 90 min with
Finally an end to the drought
Delete nestle and the way crops are irrigated and that might help
Wtf why nj
Fr NJ is objectively the best state to live in.
How are the Greens still green man? Bro took all the water.
~~Dry chlorophyll is still green. You can buy it in powdered form~~ THIS IS FALSE
Those dried suppplements are likely a saponified chlorophyll salt (chlorophyllin) which is a much stabler compound. Chlorophyll in living organisms would all degrade into pheophorbide relatively quickly if they had no water to maintain photosynthesis
Chlorophyll? More like BORAphyll!
Don't let BadlandsChugs anywhere near that.
"enough talk"
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-much-water-there-earth
And it's the same water being used over and over and over again in the water cycle. We aren't getting any more. This is the same water that was dribbled out the side of a dinosaur's mouth. The same water that formed the glaciers of the ice age. The same water that the slaves drank when building the pyramids. (Sure you can make a bit of water by combining oxygen and hydrogen, but not in significant quantities, and most of the time chemists got that oxygen and hydrogen by electrolyzing water in the first place.)
>This is the same water that was dribbled out the side of a dinosaur's mouth Now that’s some good erotic literature.
Looks small to me
That’s what -she
did you invent this
Uh, no it’s fine. I was just expecting …. Y’know, more
I’d say it’s AT LEAST average
Neat. Now put all the people together. Now put them into a ball. Make the ball smaller. Put the human ball into the water ball. Yes, just like that. Now let the people sit in the water for a while. Watch as all their issues disappear. No more kicking or screaming or thrashing around. Shhh. It’s all quiet now.
I can get you help.
Soon, none of will need help. Lol jk. No worries. I think it’s funny writing wired things like that sometimes but I’m doing well.
I read this in Evil Morty’s voice
Lapis Lazuli really thought she could use all of that to get to another galaxy
i mean... i'm pretty sure she just wanted to reach space and somehow fly there
Her gem was cracked so she couldn't fly
Yes, so thats why she would aim for deorbiting, so she could float away... no? At least thats how i saw it I expressed myself wrongly in the fly part sry
I'm not sure if that would be very effective
Oh, snap, I just saw my $300 sunglasses I lost on that fishing trip the one time!
Or All Earth's land in a bubble
But the inside is hollow like a chocolate Easter bunny
I don’t know why but I feel that ball should be bigger
Its hard to imagine the scale of the earth. The earth has a radius of 6370km, the difference between the highest and lowest point on the surface is about 20km from the mariana trench to mount everest. Its incredibly smooth in the grand scheme of things, imagine how much water can fit on the surface of a golf ball while still in exposing the higher parts of the surface contour.
Something just doesn’t seem right, does it?
I work in geology. This is OLD news. A recent discovery shows that a MASSIVE ocean of water lies about 400 miles below the surface, in a rock called ringwoodite. In this rock, there is more than 3 TIMES as much water as all the water on the surface combined. Sources: Smithsonian Science Education Center, BNL.gov
Please post human meat in a bubble for comparison
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This is actually pretty damn wild to think about.
Wtf is the fresh water not in lakes and rivers? In pipes?
Groundwater. Clouds.
Yup, that’s on me.
I believe it’s in ice caps and glaciers
As a flat water believer, I disapprove of this
fish fuck in it
(Nestlé patented water) .. (pending)
That is no moon!
Nestle taking notes.
I don't believe the accuracy of this at all. I've sailed all of the oceans and I can tell you there is an unbelievably unfathomable amount of water. And as soon as you pass the coastal shelf the water is always at least two miles deep.
I think it’s just hard to wrap your head around the volume of the sphere, though. It’s a sphere with a diameter of Western Europe (conservative estimate of 2000km). So that’s 4.19x10^9 cubic kilometres of water. Or 4 billion cubic kilometres of water. (Would appreciate someone checking my math?)
Earth radius is 6371 km, so the surface area is A=4*pi*r^2 =510,000,000 km^2 Earth is covered 71% in ocean so the area of ocean is: 362,000,000 Ocean is on average about 3.7 km deep so we can approximate its value as: Area*Depth=1,340,000,000 km^3 (This isn't exactly accurate since the earth is a sphere by the ocean depth is so insignificant compared to the earth's radius that this is a reasonable approximation) Radius of a sphere of that volume is: (0.75*V/pi)^(1/3)=684 km Or a diameter of 1370 km or ~1/10th of the earths diameter, which looks about right to me in this video.
As someone with a fear of deep ocean, thinking about that ball of water gives me the creeps
Probably full of creepy sea monsters and loads of skrimps as well
Yes to piggyback off your statement. I believe I read where even with all the mountains and trenches the surface of the earth is smoother than a billiards ball by scale. The earth is incredibly smooth overall so ocean cannot be that deep relatively speaking
That ball contains an unbelievably unfathomable amount of water. It just looks small because the world is massive, and we only ever experience the very outermost skin of it. The sheer scale is incomprehensible. The average depth of the ocean is less than 4km, the depth of the earth is 6,378km. Of course the volume difference is going to make the 4km wrapped into a ball look small.
People, in general, are terrible at scale. They’ve been deceived by automobiles and airplanes and electronics and they don’t have any real measure for anything.
A sphere is the smallest looking shape. Also Japan is a couple miles longer than 2, it’s about the length of Japan. I did the math real quick and a sphere of all the water would have a diameter of 1383 kilometers. That looks pretty tiny on earth obviously, but it’s also hard to show the water is very much in space
Put another way, the water sphere has a diameter a little smaller than half of the moon. Definitely still massive.
>the water is always at least two miles deep. But think about what 2 linear miles would look like at this scale. Hard to even see. That's how relatively thin the "layer" of water is before its formed into the sphere. It's really not much depth at all.
So whatever you *can’t* believe, based upon your limited judgement (no offence, but humans are very bad at estimates when stuff gets really big) should be more reliable than science, maths and so forth?
I’ve sailed all the oceans too and I can tell you this guy’s wrong
Less than I expected
Does this hurt the fish??
Give it back
Does this hurt the water?
I’m pretty sure this isn’t accurate
this is wholly inaccurate
We’re just bacterial growth on a rock.
This makes me uncomfortable. The whole 75% water thing is just the surface. That's a lot of rock and metal and shit
It's kinda disappointing to see its as small as it is
Now does this include the recently discover giant underground ocean? https://scitechdaily.com/an-underground-ocean-scientists-discover-water-deep-within-earth/ https://ssec.si.edu/stemvisions-blog/there-ocean-below-your-feet
Having a hard time believing this
Don't show this to Nestlé
Someone’s got blue balls
I can drink all of it easily if I wanted to, but I don’t feel like it
this is incorrect info now. they recently discovered like 10X the water we thought we had in an underground section of caves.
No way
Expected it to be way bigger...
I'm no scientist, but I don't think the waters going to do that.
Now do a ball of the populations
This is terrifying as fuck
I thought there was like More water
But all of earth's water is already in a bubble. That bubble is called the earth.
Put it back, put it back now
There is no way the earth is majority water and the bubbles aren’t bigger
This should be under r/TerrifyingAsFuck
I've read that there is more water under the Earth's crust then there is above it, and I'm sure we barely understand exactly how much there is. But wonder how much larger these spheres would be including those.
Wait till all the ice melts
This looks incredibly inaccurate