All of earth's water into a sphere

[JG26_EZ]

I found it quite surprising when viewed from this perspective and thought I'd share.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/JG26_EZ/earth_water_bubble_volume1.jpg
All the water on Earth would fit into a sphere 860 miles (1,385 km) wide. Image via Jack Cook/WHOI/USGS

http://earthsky.org/earth/if-you-made-a-sphere-of-all-earths-water-how-big-would-it-be

[WTE_Galway]

If you shipped it to Mars you could make Mars inhabitable.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Looks a little bit like a tit. But it's been a while since I saw a tit.......:(

[JG26_EZ]

Don't forget your fins and a snorkel...

Earth is 7926 miles wide, Mars is 4,217 miles wide.. we may have "some" flooding :eek:

I imagine the appearance of Mars would change quite a bit.
Maybe something like this...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/JG26_EZ/250px-Mars_Valles_Marineris1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/JG26_EZ/Water-Planet1.jpg

[raaaid]

oh and i thought it would be dificult to contaminate it all

according my studies in high sea if you have a convenience flag as 80% of ships its the law of the stronger or smarter, you can do as you please

[Ze-Jamz]

Seems quite small eh?

[Von Crapenhauser]

Agreed Smaller than what I expected.
So much for The Blue Planet???

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Interesting as it is..

It is very misleading..

Comparing surface area to a volume is like comparing percentages to counts..

Sadly both are typically done to either get a rise out of people or emphasize the point (their agenda) they are trying to make..

If they wanted to do a fair and honest job of 'spear' comparisons they should have shown a spear of the ground above sea level (livable area).. Which would have been about 1/4 the size of the water spear..

Better yet, instead of a top down view of the spear, which only masks it size, show how high the spear would reach into the sky.. Where the top of the spear would be at 4540,800.00 FEET

Four Thousand, Five Hundred, and Forty point Eight THOUSAND FEET!

In short, comparing the volume of water to the volume of the earth is very misleading. It implies that we can make use of (aka live) anywhere 'inside' the earth, where as every drop of water 'inside' that water spear can be made use of.

Comparing the surface area of the land to the surface area of the water is a more honest comparison IMHO.

[ATAG_Doc]

Worth more than all the oil, silver and gold in the world combined. Nothing happens without water.

[JG52Krupi]

Who are they trying to mislead :confused: its just a simple fact...

[5./JG27.Farber]

In short, comparing the volume of water to the volume of the earth is very misleading. It implies that we can make use of (aka live) anywhere 'inside' the earth, where as every drop of water 'inside' that water spear can be made use of.

Comparing the surface area of the land to the surface area of the water is a more honest comparison IMHO.

Excellant point!


When you say 'spear' do you mean "sphere"? I dont know what you mean by spear, a spear to me is a pointed polearm.


Would not a better example therefore be the volume of the water compared to the livable surface area? Hmm livable would discount the Qattara depression, the South Pole and some Mountains...

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Excellant point!
Thanks!

When you say 'spear' do you mean "sphere"? I dont know what you mean by spear, a spear to me is a pointed polearm.
DOH!

Yup, sorry, english is my 2nd language, math is my 1st! ;)

Would not a better example therefore be the volume of the water compared to the livable surface area?
I agree

And is what I was refering to when I said..

If they wanted to do a fair and honest job of 'spear' comparisons they should have shown a spear of the ground above sea level (livable area).. Which would have been about 1/4 the size of the water spear..

Great minds think alike! ;)

[raaaid]

who cares point taken its easy to pack and send to space, edit also easy to contaminate it all, after all contamination is VOLUMETRIC not flat

[JG26_EZ]

No wonder so many posts get locked.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/JG26_EZ/These_guys_just_cant_accept_something_for_what_it_ is.jpg

Ace.. you should just mellow out and just enjoy looking at something for what it is..

And don't worry about your spelling mistake.. Farber made his "Excellent point" of making an excellent spelling mistake, and yes Raaaid we can see that you really want to talk about how easy it would be to contaminate the water.. gzeus.. Go ahead guys and make a train wreck out of every post you can find. You guys are embarrassing.

I will not visit this post again. Have fun and enjoy the pic in the first post of this thread.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Ace.. you should just mellow out and just enjoy looking at something for what it is..
No need.. mellow as they come! And I do enjoy all the clever ways people come up with to re-invent the chicken little theme of the sky is falling

And don't worry about your spelling mistake..
What gave you the impression that I am worried about it?

Go ahead guys and make a train wreck out of every post you can find. You guys are embarrassing.
Right back at ya!

I will not visit this post again.
Promise?

[JG52Krupi]

EZ just put him on ignore hes a troll.

Yes we don't live in the earth but that's not what this is about what this is showing is how little water we have.

Water is the source of all life on our planet and we continue to use it as a dumping ground and poison it with oil spills. So to anyone with an ounce of common sense when they see this fact put into a image like that should think about how we MUST keep it clean and not continue down the route we are currently taking.

As far as your point "Ace of Nothing" if you had actually read the article it stated that the water that life is sustained from is actually the tiny sphere under the other two water sphere's...

http://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/06/earth_water_bubble_small.jpeg

Lets see what your "maths" :rolleyes: makes of that...

[Ze-Jamz]

Lol...Krupi's getting his boxing gloves on...like it

I agree totaly with what hes just wrote too..I think some are taking this way out of context..

Its not impying its a mathmatical certainity, its more a 'Heads up' awareness picture...thats what I took it for the moment I see it...analzing it I didnt

[Madfish]

Yeah, Ze-Jamz. Actually anyone with even just the slightest experience in math or engineering would see the picture like that. It's definately not 100% correct nor does it want to be. It's just showing the simple fact that water on earth is actually very rare. Unpolluted water or fresh water is even more rare.

Although I did know about the situation I never really imagined it visually. Thanks for the share, really inspiring to look at. A great awareness picture.

[flyingblind]

It also looks like the Americans have nicked it all! :-D

[Ze-Jamz]

It also looks like the Americans have nicked it all! :-D

Haha..well spotted

Bloomin sods the lots of em..

[5./JG27.Farber]

The original post didnt mention anything about pollution which is proberbly why the maths discussion started.

As for my "Excllant" spelling I apologise. Spelling is not my strong point. :( and I wasnt ragging on Aces when I asked him what he ment by "spear", I actually googled it incase it was an american spelling of sphere...

[M2morris]

Interesting no doubt. When I first saw the thread's title I pictured the sphere being a lot bigger than that. It makes me wonder how big of a sphere/compressed to sea level pressure bubble, the Earth's atmosphere would make.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

EZ just put him on ignore hes a troll.
All in all just glad to see that you DON'T have me on ignore! Speaks Volumes! Pun intended! ;)

[Sternjaeger II]

Does that take into account the water suspended in the atmosphere?

[WTE_Galway]

It also looks like the Americans have nicked it all! :-D

In a free market economy the "fair" distribution of a scarce resource is determined by market forces and who has the wherewithal to pay the most.

[Toasted_Toad]

In that case it should be over China, they still pay "cash" for things. :cool:

[WTE_Galway]

In that case it should be over China, they still pay "cash" for things. :cool:

Actually you are kind of correct. its Asia first followed by North America second.

http://www.wrsc.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/preview/images/2012/water-crisis1.jpg

Australia last, as you would expect when the majority of the continent is as dry as a dead dingos donger.