I'm sorry... I can't believe that.
I dont think thats accurate. I really had to do the math myself to actually believe such a claim.
Picture shows how all the water on Earth would fit into one 860-mile-wide ball, page 1
Topic started on 8-5-2012 @ 12:12 PM by jazz10
Short but sweet as the picture says it all really. But have they really done the sums properly.
Here is the link
Here is the link
When people talk about our water supply running out, it's often difficult to imagine - but according to the U.S. government's Geological Survey, all the water on Earth would fit into an 860-mile-wide bubble. Around 70% of Earth's surface IS water-covered - but it's a very, very thin layer. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk...
reply posted on 8-5-2012 @ 12:27 PM by Vasa Croe
A bit more information from the USGS site on it....apparently it is correct and includes ALL water.
ga.water.usgs.gov...
ga.water.usgs.gov...
reply posted on 8-5-2012 @ 12:27 PM by TheInterceptor
reply to post by Chrisfishenstein
70% of the surface.
I have no way of fact checking this myself and it may all just be a joke, but for all of the people who for some reason will not read the short article attached, it does say it includes ALL water on earth.
70% of the surface.
I have no way of fact checking this myself and it may all just be a joke, but for all of the people who for some reason will not read the short article attached, it does say it includes ALL water on earth.
reply posted on 8-5-2012 @ 12:28 PM by pasiphae
Originally posted by Vasa Croe
A bit more information from the USGS site on it....apparently it is correct and includes ALL water.
ga.water.usgs.gov...
that answers my question. that picture makes a really big statement. wow.
reply posted on 8-5-2012 @ 12:28 PM by killianhgore
reply to post by pasiphae
It's true! Scary but true - check out this link to see just how much fresh water we have!
renovatingtherustbelt.wordpress.com...
It's true! Scary but true - check out this link to see just how much fresh water we have!
renovatingtherustbelt.wordpress.com...
reply posted on 8-5-2012 @ 12:29 PM by ChaoticOrder
Originally posted by Chrisfishenstein
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
I doubt it is only fresh water because it's shown next to a completely barren dry Earth. Water doesn't make up a huge percentage of the Earth.
No not at all.....Only around 70%.......Pretty small amount......
70% of the surface is covered in water.
You’ve heard the saying that the Earth is mostly water. But what percent of Earth is water? Salt water oceans make up 71% of the Earth’s surface, which the other 29% made up of the Earth’s continents and islands. But there are also freshwater lakes and glaciers that cover the Earth’s surface.
Of all the water on Earth, 97.5% is contained within the oceans, while the remaining 2.5% is freshwater lakes and frozen water locked up in glaciers and the polar ice caps – almost 69% of the fresh water on Earth is ice. If you could melt all the water on Earth, and the Earth’s surface was perfectly smooth, the water would rise to an altitude of 2.7 km.
But what percent of the Earth is water? Not just the surface of the Earth, but the actual mass of the Earth? Scientists calculate that the mass of the oceans on Earth is 1.35 x 1018 metric tonnes, which is 1/4400 the total mass of the Earth. In other words, the oceans are 0.02% of the total mass of the Earth.
What Percent of Earth is Water?
reply posted on 8-5-2012 @ 12:32 PM by AnonymousCitizen
Two different source put the water on Earth to be 326 million trillion gallons. source and source
With 1 cubic mile containing about a trillion gallons, that gives us about 326 million cubic miles, also from source
Using the 860 mile diameter in the OP diagram, we have a radius of 430 miles. Using the formula for the volume of a sphere of V = 4/3 * pi * r^3 give us 106,009,337.5 square miles, well short of the 326 million square miles needed to hold the Earth's water.
In summary, we would need more than 3 of those round balls of water.
edit on 5/8/12 by AnonymousCitizen because: used square instead
of cube in formula, doh
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