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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I don't know about the atmosphere one, but it looks to me like if you broke that "ball of water" it wouldn't even cover the Atlantic in that picture, let alone the rest of it.
Of course it is well known that I'm pretty thick, so maybe some can explain it to me.
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it's because even though it looks small it would only take a very thin layer of water to cover all the oceans. If the picture was considerably bigger or had dimensions listed on it it would make sense. but i would venture to guess that the ball of water is roughly 3500Kms wide and about the same tall, assuming that is a perfect sphere.
the volume of a sphere is 4/3 x pi x the radius cubed.
if the radius is roughly 1750km (i just used google maps and estimated that the ball goes from near france to about Turkey)
therefore this ball of water is roughly 22,449,297,503km cubed in volume.
that's a lot of ****ing water
everyone else feel free to correct my math but I think I did that right.
Edit: Just checked Wiki and it says the oceans volume is 1,300 million cubic kilometers which is 1,300,000,000 right? and that is just the oceans, i believe the question asked all the water on earth.