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Amazingly, the earths water is really a miniscule amount
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| 5/15/12
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Posted on 05/15/2012 10:58:01 AM PDT by central_va
The blue ball represents all of the earths water. Not that much...
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As a former member of the USN, I find this both amusing and astonishing.
To: 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.
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posted on
05/15/2012 10:59:45 AM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Globull warming, no doubt.
To: central_va
The brain is composed of 70% water.
To: central_va
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:02:59 AM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Great! Something else to worry about. (Great post!)
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:03:08 AM PDT
by
Chaguito
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:03:27 AM PDT
by
houeto
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: central_va
Is that why we’re having another drought here in Texas?
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:03:27 AM PDT
by
LearsFool
("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
To: Berlin_Freeper
The brain is composed of 70% water.Liberal brains are composed of 70% fecal matter.
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:05:16 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: central_va
A deceiving graphic. If the continents were all bunched up it would like like a large BB next to the “Blue ball” of water.
To: central_va
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.....
To: central_va
The DUMBASS who wrote this has NEVER been in the Atlantic or Pacific.
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:08:36 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: dfwgator
The brain is composed of 70% water. Liberal brains are composed of 70% fecal matter.
Algore's is more like 99%
To: immadashell
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:11:32 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: 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.
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:11:32 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(I like Obamacare because Granny signed the will and I need the cash)
To: muir_redwoods
Im 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.
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:12:36 AM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
By some accounts there is more water trapped in the mantel than there is above the crust.
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:13:38 AM PDT
by
DarkWaters
("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
To: central_va
This is the same ball of water that’s been around for a bazillion years, right?
Good luck to them with the latest scare.
To: central_va
We've got plenty of water.
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:17:38 AM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: central_va
Yeah, I’d like to see a similar image of oil. I wonder how much oil we have consumed since we started using it.
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:25:15 AM PDT
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Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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