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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- All the Water on Planet Earth
NASA ^ | May 15, 2012 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 05/15/2012 4:39:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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 is 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.

May 15, 2012

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; beijinganomaly; bigsplash; catastrophism; climate; comet; comets; geology; globalwarminghoax; louisafrank; louisfrank; notsogreatflood; ocean; oldest; originofoceans; originoftheoceans; patrickhuyghe; ringwoodite; science; smallcomets; subduction; thebigsplash; wadatibenioffzone; water; world
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[Credit & Copyright: Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Howard Perlman, USGS]

1 posted on 05/15/2012 4:39:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Poll: Have you seen today's APOD image before?

2 posted on 05/15/2012 4:40:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
Ogawd that's just gonna give the Malthusians something else to be paranoid about.

and look - it's in Crawford, TX! George W. Bush has stolen all the world's water!

3 posted on 05/15/2012 4:43:59 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s still a crapload of water.


4 posted on 05/15/2012 4:52:22 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: SunkenCiv

How about bunching up the amount of land above sea level.


5 posted on 05/15/2012 4:53:40 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: the invisib1e hand; SunkenCiv

ha Ha! You Beat me to it! I was going to say that the consolidation of the Oceans into a tiny ball, thus killing all sea life and destroying the World is Bush’s Fault!
LOL (Oh the Hugh Manatees!)

Poll:
No, I have never seen this pic before.


6 posted on 05/15/2012 4:55:19 AM PDT by left that other site
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To: SunkenCiv

If the planet were shrunk down to a 2” diameter it would be more perfect and smooth than any man made ball bearing. Even with the Marianas trench and Mt Everest and K-2


7 posted on 05/15/2012 5:01:50 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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To: SunkenCiv; The Invisible Hand; cripplecreek; armymarinemom; left that other site

OMGoodness! I was going to say that is the scariest picture I’ve ever seen, but I read the thread first and can’t stop laughing. You folks are a riot!


8 posted on 05/15/2012 5:02:41 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: cripplecreek

We’re all gonna die! Aiiieeeeee!!!!!!

OK, I feel better now.


9 posted on 05/15/2012 5:07:51 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Do you have a mathematical equation for this?

Forgive me, but this is as hard for me to believe as the stuff about a woman’s monthly amounting to less than a tablespoon of blood.

Implausible hyperbole. (:


10 posted on 05/15/2012 5:09:04 AM PDT by .30Carbine (God bless you with the spirit of wisdom and understanding)
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To: Delta 21

And if that ball were dry, you could make deeper oceans just by breathing on it.

It’s the, “If the earth were the size of a billiard ball...” analogy. I first heard that in high school in the early ‘60s. It impressed me enough that it stuck in my head.


11 posted on 05/15/2012 5:19:02 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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12 posted on 05/15/2012 5:20:48 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Cool! Now I can walk down there and collect all the Spanish gold I want!


13 posted on 05/15/2012 5:24:28 AM PDT by Thorliveshere
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To: cripplecreek
That’s still a crapload of water.

Yep - I think "they" said that if the great lakes were distributed across the USA, it would coat the country in 4' of water.

14 posted on 05/15/2012 5:29:08 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’d still say that it’s enough. And for how much water is below the earth’s surface? Probably just as much. Thanks to being a geologically active planet with a molten interior, we are constantly replenishing our oceans and atmosphere. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes aren’t just “acts of God.” They are his gifts.


15 posted on 05/15/2012 5:29:34 AM PDT by henkster (Wanted: Politicians willing to say "No" to people. No experience required.)
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To: shibumi

Great one, Sensei!


16 posted on 05/15/2012 5:34:57 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: trebb

Heck, Michigan is already covered with water. You can’t turn around without stepping into a swamp, lake, or stream. I’ve read that we’re never more than a mile from some type of water body in Michigan.


17 posted on 05/15/2012 5:36:24 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Ogawd that's just gonna give the Malthusians something else to be paranoid about.

They're already on it, Peter Gleick (the criminal that confessed to the Heartland theft of documents) when he isn't pimping Global Warming is an H2O alarmist. On the board of his Pacific Institute is none other than the Malthusian Anne H. Ehrlich, the wife of the Malthusian clown Paul Ehrlich.

18 posted on 05/15/2012 6:10:41 AM PDT by Joe Miner
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To: SunkenCiv

Good teachable moment about the difference between surface area and volume.


19 posted on 05/15/2012 6:21:36 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: SunkenCiv

“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.”

Ok, could this be where this is going? What happens to the water that is pumped several thousand feet down into a shale formation to force out the hydrocarbons trapped in the shale?


20 posted on 05/15/2012 6:30:19 AM PDT by ngat
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