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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.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
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To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
This photo will be used by cruel teachers to scare the children!
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posted on
05/15/2012 8:28:09 AM PDT
by
onyx
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To: SunkenCiv
Alright folks, time to put the water back. It’s hurting tourism on beachfronts.
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posted on
05/15/2012 8:36:44 AM PDT
by
zeugma
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To: SunkenCiv
Poll:
I saw this pic on The Weather Channel this morning before seeing it here.
To: SunkenCiv
ok so my response is...... Oh my god!!!!! that's it. jee wiz look at what were doing to our water Oh no’s. So there it is. desired outcome achieved. for you more educated folks is this the real amount?
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posted on
05/15/2012 8:57:56 AM PDT
by
VaRepublican
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To: ngat
There’s a subterranean sea of sorts somewhere under the Himalayas (for one example); the amount of water pumped by humans — throughout history — doesn’t amount to much.
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05/15/2012 9:24:08 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: the invisib1e hand
/bingo
And as ngat implied, it’s probably meme-building about fracking.
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05/15/2012 9:34:55 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: cripplecreek
You might enjoy this contrast, then, between your Michigan and Southern California: in all of SoCal, there is exactly one natural lake: Lake Elsinore. All the others were created by man-made catastrophes (Salton Sea) or dams.
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posted on
05/15/2012 10:08:20 AM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
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To: SunkenCiv
If the world’s population was dumped into the middle of the ocean at once, would there be enough displacement to cause a notable rise in the sea level?
To: GSWarrior
If the worlds population was dumped into the middle of the ocean at once, would there be enough displacement to cause a notable rise in the sea level?
No, because you could take the entire population of the world and if they all stood side by side and in a tight ball where all their arms are locked together, they would fit in the city limits of Jacksonville Florida.
So you may get a splash, and some high waves along the shorelines but not much more.
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posted on
05/15/2012 11:55:08 AM PDT
by
OneVike
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To: Delta 21
Did you say "ball bearing" ?
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posted on
05/15/2012 12:56:36 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
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To: TheOldLady
Yer probly right. I’ve been a machinist/engineer all my days so ball bearings being as smooth as possible is the best. You pay really top dollar for for good ones.
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posted on
05/15/2012 3:07:37 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
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To: fieldmarshaldj
The noun. NOT the adjective.
..snort..
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posted on
05/15/2012 3:09:56 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
To: GSWarrior
Depends how much beer they had before being dumped there.
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posted on
05/15/2012 3:13:49 PM PDT
by
Ironfocus
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05/15/2012 5:37:48 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Posted this on the other thread:
Their calculations are wrong. The volume of water on the plant which includes all the the water on the earth and in the atmosphere comes out to 1,400,000,000 km^3 which would make a sphere approximately 1400 km in diameter which is twice as large as they show in the pic.
Just most crap out of NASA. They need to go away
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posted on
05/15/2012 8:37:15 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
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12/21/2014 2:54:41 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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