Amazingly, the earths water is really a miniscule amount

nasa.gov ^ | 5/15/12 | mother earth

[central_va]

The blue ball represents all of the earths water. Not that much...

[PeterPrinciple]

I see they didn’t account for water trapped in the soil or atmosphere...

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Water is not static, photosynthesis changes water into into hydrocarbons and oxygen. Respiration changes it back, and they cycle goes on and on......................

[PeterPrinciple]

I see they didn’t account for water trapped in the soil or atmosphere...

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Water is not static, photosynthesis changes water into into hydrocarbons and oxygen. Respiration changes it back, and they cycle goes on and on......................

[rightwingextremist1776]

Kinda my point...yes? By accounting for only sea water it kinda misses the mark.....

[SeaHawkFan]

Where in Texas is there a drought this year? The Houston area is very close to the annual rainfall average and we aren’t even to June.

[wolfcreek]

Word about Texas:

We have perpetual drought with intermittent flooding. Always.

Forecasters say we are not out of the woods this Summer, at all.

[oldbrowser]

Not to worry, every time it rains we get more.
It is recyclable. Also I heard that humans are 90% water.

[wxgesr]

The next series of wars will be fought over water/water rights. Look at China buying up rights in USA, elsewhre.

BTW, one can drown in a teaspoon of water, if done properly.

[Bryanw92]

Scientists crack me up with factoids like this. They use it to show how “fragile” the world is, but it really just shows how wonderful it is that God put just the right amount of water on Earth to make it habitable.

[Joe 6-pack]

Wow....so little water to be shared. Makes you wonder why the left is so obsessed with keeping so much of it being locked up in glaciers and the polar caps.

[PilotDave]

Yes we have very little. Luckily though an amazing amount of fresh water just falls out of the sky every year.

[BitWielder1]

This is the same ball of water that’s been around for a bazillion years, right?

Yes, it's not like we're going to run out, the H2O and the constituent H's and O's are already being re-used indefinitely.

[sand88]

Pretty cool. I just did a rough calculation and came up with a ball 636 miles in diameter. I assumed a radius of 3959mi with a 2 mile water depth covering 70%. Still, it’s a lot of water!

[Steve Van Doorn]

Their calculations are wrong. The volume of water on the plant which includes the water in 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

[central_va]

Water bump.

[BfloGuy]

BTW, one can drown in a teaspoon of water, if done properly.

I believe Obama outlawed that.

[mo]

Somebodies REALLY planning on jacking the price....I wonder which “investment bank” has already bought and “securitized”
all the public works bonds across the country?

[djf]

I believe that’s true.

Many, many minerals have a “hydrated” form where there are crystalline forms based mostly on the base mineral, but structurally bonded with water molecules.

Concrete is a good example. When you mix it, you use water, and it’s not diarrhea loose, but it’s pretty fluid.
As it sets, the water does not evaporate away, it gets bonded into the carbonate crystals.
Just like limestone.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks houeto.

\Astronomy Picture of the Day — All the Water on Planet Earth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2883846/posts

[Sparky21555]

G W Bush has stolen all the water! Bush’s fault! It’s over his ranch.

[dayglored]

> Is that why we’re having another drought here in Texas?

I dunno, looks to me in that picture that there's one huge round balloon of water in about northwestern Texas and New Mexico. Maybe if you run over to where it's sitting, and poke it real hard with a sharp pointy stick, you'll solve that there drought right quick.

:)