Amazingly, the earths water is really a miniscule amount

nasa.gov ^ | 5/15/12 | mother earth

[central_va]

The blue ball represents all of the earths water. Not that much...

[central_va]

As a former member of the USN, I find this both amusing and astonishing.

[central_va]

Explanation: How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius. The above illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers, less than half the radius of the Earth's Moon, but slightly larger than Saturn's moon Rhea which, like many moons in our outer Solar System, is mostly water ice. How even this much water came to be on the Earth and whether any significant amount is trapped far beneath Earth's surface remain topics of research.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Globull warming, no doubt.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The brain is composed of 70% water.

[central_va]

Bump

[Chaguito]

Great! Something else to worry about. (Great post!)

[houeto]

Ping!

[LearsFool]

Is that why we’re having another drought here in Texas?

[dfwgator]

The brain is composed of 70% water.

Liberal brains are composed of 70% fecal matter.

[traderrob6]

A deceiving graphic. If the continents were all bunched up it would like like a large BB next to the “Blue ball” of water.

[rightwingextremist1776]

I see they didn’t account for water trapped in the soil or atmosphere...

So much for accuracy....must have been done by the same people involved in the GW fraud.....

[US Navy Vet]

The DUMBASS who wrote this has NEVER been in the Atlantic or Pacific.

[immadashell]

The brain is composed of 70% water.

Liberal brains are composed of 70% fecal matter.

Algore's is more like 99%

[dfwgator]

Algore’s is just empty.

[muir_redwoods]

I’m told that if the earth were proportionally the size of an apple, the oceans would be about equal to the peel in depth.

[central_va]

I’m told that if the earth were proportionally the size of an apple, the oceans would be about equal to the peel in depth.

I now believe that is true.

[DarkWaters]

By some accounts there is more water trapped in the mantel than there is above the crust.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

This is the same ball of water that’s been around for a bazillion years, right?

Good luck to them with the latest scare.

[fishtank]

We've got plenty of water.

[Theoria]

Yeah, I’d like to see a similar image of oil. I wonder how much oil we have consumed since we started using it.