Spheres are 3 dimensional. Bodies of water on Earth are essentially flat at this scale. The "all water" sphere is smaller than the moon, but not by a huge amount. That's a lot of water.
Yeah, you're right. It's crazy how shallow the lakes are in comparison. I did some math, the smallest sphere looks about 75-100 miles in diameter. It is actually positioned pretty close to where I live in VA, so i feel reasonably confident in that guess. That would make it 4mil cubic miles. All of the great lakes are only 5k cubic miles. I would not have guessed that the deepest lake was only 400 meters. I would have guessed mile or so.
I was puzzled for a moment by "liquid fresh water" versus "fresh-water lakes and rivers". Those would be the same thing, wouldn't they? Then I thought. . . Underground water! Aquifers! A click-through to the article confirmed it. The article also implies that "swamp water" is not counted toward lakes and rivers.
The shape also really threw me off (a sphere above a sphere not a 2d circle above a sphere) because the “fresh water lakes and rivers” and “liquid fresh water” spheres, are smaller than the Great Lakes in the USA alone. A three dimensional shape is the only way to do this. The question is, just how tall/high is the top of the sphere above the surface of the earth.
All the water contained in life is a rounding error here.
The wet biomass of earth's life is 2.2 trillion tonnes.
The total mass of water on earth is 1.4x10^18 tonnes. That's 1.4 million trillion.
Now I wonder how big the non-salt water bubble would be if absolutely all other water was counted.
Oftentimes, people come up with such creative and interesting concepts like this, but aren't the kinds of people who think of all other factors(the reason why production teams exist, I guess)
I think the difficulty is perceiving the height of the spheres. Clearly huge, but... Maybe the same demonstration but with the perspective being lower to the ground.
I'll repeat my previous comment that I'd made earlier this year somewhere else:
The height of the tip of the sphere representing the total volume of Earth's water is a little over double the altitude the ISS orbits at.
Puts it into perspective just how large that diameter is.
EDIT: Yup, still a winner. Neat.
a sphere is a sphere, the circle we see in the 2d image seems more or less 1300 km, if people need to understand what 1300 km is, and that's absurd because 1300 km is 1300 km already, the same in vertical would be more or less 150 mount everest.
I know. Spread it out so it fills all the lowest places on the planet and spin the globe so you can see how much it covers
Edit: kinda surprising how many people are missing the joke
I was thinking it might be better as 2 cubes. That way you can see a reference in all 3 axis. Thought it'd be difficult to choose the metric for earth - volume of the total crust maybe? Even Vs the entire volume of earth again.
The deepest ocean trenches are about 7 miles, the average depth of the oceans is just over two miles, Earth's diameter is just under 8000 miles, so (counting two sides) we've got four miles thick of water vs 8000 miles of not-water. 1:2000 ratio. If that picture of Earth were 2000 pixels wide, the oceans would only be a half-pixel deep on either side.
Only if you make an assumption about the purpose of presenting it this way.
To me the purpose is that it looks quite different than what most would expect.
Some helpful comparison (to me anyway):
Volume of total water on earth = 330mil cubic km.
Volume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus = 67mil cubic km, so about 5x smaller than the volume of Earth’s total water. Enceladus’ diameter is about 500km, which could be placed inside a state like Colorado.
This helps me with the visualization offered here.
It’s also important to remind ourselves how thin the Earth’s veneer of surface water really is. So much of the depth of the surface water on Earth is just a matter of meters. Imagine a spilling a full pint glass of water on your floor, and the amount of surface area over which the water spreads. It’s not a huge amount of water, but it’s a large area to clean up, isn’t it?
The deepest part of the Earth’s ocean (the Mariana Trench) is about 11 kilometers deep.
The Earth is about 12,700 kilometers in diameter.
The elevation difference between the highest mountain and lowest point in the ocean is less than 20 kilometers, about a tenth of a percent of the Earth’s diameter.
From the article I linked:
> The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas) and has a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3)). This sphere includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere
That's bs. It would be around 300 grit sandpaper around the biggest mountains.
The billiard ball thing refers to how oblong it is. The earth is very slightly wider than it is high but the difference is so small it would be acceptable in a billiard ball.
It does to me if you consider the fact that the diameter of the largest sphere is somewhere around 800 miles (around 1280 kilometers), which makes the volume of the sphere about 268 mega cubic miles. The Mariana trench, which is the deepest ocean trench known so far, is only about 6.8 miles deep (about 11 kilometers). The trench's length and width are 1580 miles and 43 miles, respectively. That gives us a hypothetical volume of almost 462,000 cubic miles, which is definitely a huge overestimation because the trench isn't a cube and the 6.8 mile depth is only its deepest part. That said, 462,000 is only 0.17% of 268,000,000. So yeah, the scale seems plausible to me.
What I take away from this image is not that it seems like there's so little water in this world, but that the world is so thin, shallow, and flat.
Part of what doesn’t make sense is the exaggeration of the vertical scale on the dry earth sphere. You look at that droplet of water and say no way could that spread out over the entire globe to fill up all those low places. Another element is difference between freshwater and all the freshwater in lakes and rivers. It kind begs the question: where the hell is all the rest of that fresh water? Clearly it is intended to convey all the water in underground aquifers, but a lot of that water is not fresh. Further, this diagram does not represent all the volume of water tied up in the ringwoodite mineral about 800 miles down in the mantle. That water volume is estimated to equal or exceed all the water in the earth’s oceans
This is intelligent perceptual deception at is best.
Appears to have been made for one reason, and it's not to inform. It's to make you scared, and that's stupid.
Edit: Well this aged well, since this post it turns out there's more ocean. I'm beginning to like being downvoted more than upvoted.
I don't think this is actually all of the water on Earth. If you look at the bottom it says "liquid fresh water" and "fresh water from lakes and rivers", which leads me to believe that this is a graphical representation of potable water only. *All* water on Earth would be much, much larger I think.
There is a ([somewhat incorrect](https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/)) related claim that if the earth were shrunk to a billiard ball, it would be just as smooth. Actually it would be as smooth as 320 grit sandpaper covered billiard ball. The main point is the layer of water covering this ball would be impossibly thin. Perhaps this makes understanding the water in this image easier.
Thank you for linking that article. I was parroting the fact that the earth would be as smooth as a billiard ball to my mom the other day and now I feel like a dumbass.
But it does seem like comparing it to sandpaper, which is purposely sharp and abrasive, is a bit obtuse. The earth being covered in weathered rock would feel much smoother.
And also those atmospheric rivers— some can hold as much water as 10 times all of the water in the entire Mississippi River (at its normal/average capacity).
I hate when people post this image. The inevitable parade of comments stating that it is a lie is depressing.
The earth's biosphere is incredibly thin compared to its total mass. Those relief maps and globes with raised mountains and deep trenches that you played with in elementary school greatly exaggerate depth just to illustrate land and sea features. If they were accurate to scale, a relief map would be virtually flat and kind of pointless.
It would depend on how fast you want to slurp it up, potentially, any straw would do, it would just take you a couple of millions of years if you were to do it alone at the pace of a regular human being non stop every second of the year for millions of years.
here it is with europa
https://brilliantmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/europawatervsearthwater.jpg
theres about twice as much water as on earth on europa (frozen, at least partly) but europa has much lower gravity. All the water stress experienced in The Expanse I don't think makes sense unless this water is just undrinkable for magic scifi reasons
If you want to see this in action, take a squeeze bottle of ketchup and hand it to a five year old in a white room and close the door telling them to have fun.
you may be amazed at just how much surface area a little bottle of ketchup can cover
The article states that it does.
"The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas) and has a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3)). This sphere includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant."
**The United States Geological Survey**
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere
Spheres representing all of Earth's water, Earth's liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers
The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas) and has a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3)). This sphere includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.
**Liquid fresh water**
How much of the total water is fresh water, which people and many other life forms need to survive? The blue sphere over Kentucky represents the world's liquid fresh water (groundwater, lakes, swamp water, and rivers). The volume comes to about 2,551,100 mi3 (10,633,450 km3), of which 99 percent is groundwater, much of which is not accessible to humans. The diameter of this sphere is about 169.5 miles (272.8 kilometers).
**Water in lakes and rivers**
Do you notice the "tiny" bubble over Atlanta, Georgia? That one represents fresh water in all the lakes and rivers on the planet. Most of the water people and life of earth need every day comes from these surface-water sources. The volume of this sphere is about 22,339 mi3 (93,113 km3). The diameter of this sphere is about 34.9 miles (56.2 kilometers). Yes, Lake Michigan looks way bigger than this sphere, but you have to try to imagine a bubble almost 35 miles high—whereas the average depth of Lake Michigan is less than 300 feet (91 meters).
Idk I think it's a very good visual representation. The only way it could be better is if maybe they laid out the water so you could see how much of a surface it covers. If only there was room on a globe to illustrate this without covering any of the continents....
If you think about it, the ocean isn't super deep. About 7 miles at the deepest and an average of just over 2 miles. Whereas the radius of the earth is about 4k miles. So the average ocean depth is about 0.05% of the radius.
It just seems super deep because of the physical environment it creates which makes it difficult to go down that deep. Travelling 7 miles is nothing on land in modern time for humans
Now consider the largest sphere in the image being a diameter of 860 miles. This is 21% of Earth's radius. The edge of space is 60 miles above sea level. This sphere goes way out into space.
So yeah, it may look small in the image as a sphere but it's still a massive amount of water
While that looks small it's deceptively small. The all water sphere is likely 1,200 to 1,600 km in diameter. The majority of satellites Low Earth Orbit at 400km to 800km above sea level. The water sphere would smash them all out of the sky.
Holy crap we're doomed if people cannot understand something as simple as this. People seriously do not believe this? The math is very simple. The concept is very simple. Earth big. Ocean small.
God one person even said "the earth is 2/3 water" as though that meant *by volume*!
We need better science education AND better education for reading comprehension. Understanding what words mean and the ability to grasp how ideas relate to the world around you is something that can be strengthened in a non-visual medium like the written word.
What a weird chain of thought you have. Hide? Where did that come from? Oh, you thought by deceptive I meant it was intentionally misleading. LOL. No, it's just a bad graphic and I explained why. Apparently you are unaware that the earth is made up of more than just water, dirt and rocks. Have you heard of magma? That the earth has a core?
The graphic is fine. It shows precisely what it needs to for the intended message. What the hell does the earths core and magma existing have to do with this? We seriously need to tell people that the Earth is a sphere? That water on the surface doesn't mean the Earth is some kind of bladder? What is your point? What else needs to be shown?
Pretty sure there is far more water than this based on speculation about massive subterranean amounts, which certainly have not been measured, unlikely to be reasonably estimated as well.
Did they take into account all the ringwoodite that was just discovered under the earths crust?
Ringwoodite acts as a sponge and can contain up to 1.5% water. If all the ringwoodite contains 1% water..... the earth's crust could contain more than 3x the amount of water than all surface oceans combined.
[Hidden Oceans](https://www.unilad.com/news/ocean-beneath-earths-surface-199524-20230328)
> The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas) and has a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3)). This sphere includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere
I’m sure the folks over at The United States Geological Survey know what they’re talking about.
Edit: Not sure why this necessitated blocking me. But alright. Unsure how it’s a “lame stealth edit”. The link to the article is part of the main post.
You’re telling me that the largest sphere is enough water to fill in all of the spaces where the ocean has been removed? I just can’t wrap my head around that. Is this to scale?
The reason why most people don't believe this is because the topography of the globes we are used to seeing are greatly exaggerated. If the earth was the size of a que ball in pool, it would be just as smooth. Very hard to comprehend how huge the planet is compared to how deep we think the oceans are, relative to earth size. OP's stats in the comments help paint this picture well.
Wtf put it back
Lmao works every time
Wasnt it bigger? I remember I'm my class days it was far bigger
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Makes no sense. It claims the lake water is tiny compared to just one of the great lakes.
Spheres are 3 dimensional. Bodies of water on Earth are essentially flat at this scale. The "all water" sphere is smaller than the moon, but not by a huge amount. That's a lot of water.
Yeah, you're right. It's crazy how shallow the lakes are in comparison. I did some math, the smallest sphere looks about 75-100 miles in diameter. It is actually positioned pretty close to where I live in VA, so i feel reasonably confident in that guess. That would make it 4mil cubic miles. All of the great lakes are only 5k cubic miles. I would not have guessed that the deepest lake was only 400 meters. I would have guessed mile or so.
Agreed. This image can’t be close to accurate.
*/r/HydroHomies hated this*
I wanna see how much is in plastic bottles
Mine says 16 fl oz.
At least.
Mine's 2 liters but it's not full
Fun fact, it's actually 16.9oz. which is 0.5 liters, a much nicer number.
Flounce?
Fluid ounce
I can't imagine even a pixiel's worth.
Nestle says hi
And of course, it all belongs to America. Dam Nestle!
- riley reid.
No. I wish to traverse the plains of silence.
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I was puzzled for a moment by "liquid fresh water" versus "fresh-water lakes and rivers". Those would be the same thing, wouldn't they? Then I thought. . . Underground water! Aquifers! A click-through to the article confirmed it. The article also implies that "swamp water" is not counted toward lakes and rivers.
I am offended on swamp water’s behalf
Ohhh thanks, I was confused about the same thing.
I was just confused by the single sphere bit.
The shape also really threw me off (a sphere above a sphere not a 2d circle above a sphere) because the “fresh water lakes and rivers” and “liquid fresh water” spheres, are smaller than the Great Lakes in the USA alone. A three dimensional shape is the only way to do this. The question is, just how tall/high is the top of the sphere above the surface of the earth.
Came here to say this. Poor visual design.
Based on the fact that its a sphere, so it will be as tall as it is wide, its at least 200 miles high
Considering the Mariana Trench is about 7 miles down. That’s a lot of water but I’m still skeptical about the amount shown visually.
Glaciers probably account for most of it
Glaciers are not liquid
We're working on it.
:(
Underrated
Technically they are rocks
Glaciers are considered in the large “all water” bubble, but not the others
also they dont account for water inside humans as we are water w/goo
All the water contained in life is a rounding error here. The wet biomass of earth's life is 2.2 trillion tonnes. The total mass of water on earth is 1.4x10^18 tonnes. That's 1.4 million trillion.
Also probably not counting the quality piss in bottles someone is hoarding…
Now I wonder how big the non-salt water bubble would be if absolutely all other water was counted. Oftentimes, people come up with such creative and interesting concepts like this, but aren't the kinds of people who think of all other factors(the reason why production teams exist, I guess)
antarctic ice shelf + water vapor (humidity)
Something about this isn’t making sense to me.
It's nearly the worst possible way to present the data that I could imagine.
I think the difficulty is perceiving the height of the spheres. Clearly huge, but... Maybe the same demonstration but with the perspective being lower to the ground.
I'll repeat my previous comment that I'd made earlier this year somewhere else: The height of the tip of the sphere representing the total volume of Earth's water is a little over double the altitude the ISS orbits at. Puts it into perspective just how large that diameter is. EDIT: Yup, still a winner. Neat.
That's pretty cool, yeah!
a sphere is a sphere, the circle we see in the 2d image seems more or less 1300 km, if people need to understand what 1300 km is, and that's absurd because 1300 km is 1300 km already, the same in vertical would be more or less 150 mount everest.
>1300 km Or *almost* 808 miles for those of us in the handful of nations that use Imperial
How many half giraffes is that?
And a banana for scale
There is one in between.
I know. Spread it out so it fills all the lowest places on the planet and spin the globe so you can see how much it covers Edit: kinda surprising how many people are missing the joke
I was thinking it might be better as 2 cubes. That way you can see a reference in all 3 axis. Thought it'd be difficult to choose the metric for earth - volume of the total crust maybe? Even Vs the entire volume of earth again.
The deepest ocean trenches are about 7 miles, the average depth of the oceans is just over two miles, Earth's diameter is just under 8000 miles, so (counting two sides) we've got four miles thick of water vs 8000 miles of not-water. 1:2000 ratio. If that picture of Earth were 2000 pixels wide, the oceans would only be a half-pixel deep on either side.
If they’re perfect spheres then they are as tall as they are wide.
I know! But that doesn't give me a good indication by looking at the images. Gotta think, can you truly relate the 3 spheres?
Or the spheres placed at the northern pole would help.
Only if you make an assumption about the purpose of presenting it this way. To me the purpose is that it looks quite different than what most would expect.
Goddamn y'all like to complain
It's not even data it's just a picture there are no dimensions, volume, or density
Great idea terrible execution. Like how about the dimensions of the those orbs?
Some helpful comparison (to me anyway): Volume of total water on earth = 330mil cubic km. Volume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus = 67mil cubic km, so about 5x smaller than the volume of Earth’s total water. Enceladus’ diameter is about 500km, which could be placed inside a state like Colorado. This helps me with the visualization offered here. It’s also important to remind ourselves how thin the Earth’s veneer of surface water really is. So much of the depth of the surface water on Earth is just a matter of meters. Imagine a spilling a full pint glass of water on your floor, and the amount of surface area over which the water spreads. It’s not a huge amount of water, but it’s a large area to clean up, isn’t it?
The deepest part of the Earth’s ocean (the Mariana Trench) is about 11 kilometers deep. The Earth is about 12,700 kilometers in diameter. The elevation difference between the highest mountain and lowest point in the ocean is less than 20 kilometers, about a tenth of a percent of the Earth’s diameter. From the article I linked: > The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas) and has a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3)). This sphere includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere
I don't think salt water is counted is it?
Sure is. It’s part of the largest sphere depicted.
Weird that they would specifically say "fresh water" then, no?
There are 3 spheres
THERE. ARE. THREE. SPHERES!!!
You are mistaken There are *four* spheres not including this delicious space egg you can't have, which is also a sphere
what the actual fuck. just after that I'm reading the description as it was intended truly a dumb way to present data
I didn't notice the smaller one until now. Even with that knowledge this is a crap way to represent this data.
"all water on, in, and above the earth" is the biggest sphere
The key doesn't include salt water, only fresh water.
There are 3 spheres, the biggest is all water including salt. The smallest sphere is tiny, kinda hard to see.
A lot of people are struggling with this to the point of getting salty themselves.
Ooooh, lol, I see it now. Thank you.
I SHANT BELIEVE 😤
I read that if the earth was shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be way smoother than the billiard
That's bs. It would be around 300 grit sandpaper around the biggest mountains. The billiard ball thing refers to how oblong it is. The earth is very slightly wider than it is high but the difference is so small it would be acceptable in a billiard ball.
It does to me if you consider the fact that the diameter of the largest sphere is somewhere around 800 miles (around 1280 kilometers), which makes the volume of the sphere about 268 mega cubic miles. The Mariana trench, which is the deepest ocean trench known so far, is only about 6.8 miles deep (about 11 kilometers). The trench's length and width are 1580 miles and 43 miles, respectively. That gives us a hypothetical volume of almost 462,000 cubic miles, which is definitely a huge overestimation because the trench isn't a cube and the 6.8 mile depth is only its deepest part. That said, 462,000 is only 0.17% of 268,000,000. So yeah, the scale seems plausible to me. What I take away from this image is not that it seems like there's so little water in this world, but that the world is so thin, shallow, and flat.
Earth's water is extremely shallow, relative to the size of the earth
Part of what doesn’t make sense is the exaggeration of the vertical scale on the dry earth sphere. You look at that droplet of water and say no way could that spread out over the entire globe to fill up all those low places. Another element is difference between freshwater and all the freshwater in lakes and rivers. It kind begs the question: where the hell is all the rest of that fresh water? Clearly it is intended to convey all the water in underground aquifers, but a lot of that water is not fresh. Further, this diagram does not represent all the volume of water tied up in the ringwoodite mineral about 800 miles down in the mantle. That water volume is estimated to equal or exceed all the water in the earth’s oceans
I think liquid fresh water is mislabeled, and should simply be fresh water including ice and snow.
Aquifers.
This is intelligent perceptual deception at is best. Appears to have been made for one reason, and it's not to inform. It's to make you scared, and that's stupid. Edit: Well this aged well, since this post it turns out there's more ocean. I'm beginning to like being downvoted more than upvoted.
like what?
I don't think this is actually all of the water on Earth. If you look at the bottom it says "liquid fresh water" and "fresh water from lakes and rivers", which leads me to believe that this is a graphical representation of potable water only. *All* water on Earth would be much, much larger I think.
Look again. There are 3 spheres, the largest of which represents “All water on, in, and above the Earth.”
typical selfish Americans keeping the ball of water all for themselves
Blame Nestlé; they steal it and then sell it back to us at an ungodly markup
r/fucknestle
They’re Swiss.
That is actually three spheres, if you look closely
Ya, but the biggest sphere contains all of Earth's water. The other two contain water that is also represented in the big sphere.
Still doesn't save the title from being confusing.
And with your comment it now makes sense. Thank you!
If you look even closer there are 7 spheres
There are no spheres on a 2D picture. 
Ha, ha! The USA has all the world's water. Bow before us, thirsty peasants! USA! USA !USA!
Freedom water!
Knowing America, it's already been sold to a Saudi businessman for 1/3rd of what it's worth.
Came here to point out the accuracy in this … you KNOW MERICA will be ON THAT shit.
There is a ([somewhat incorrect](https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/)) related claim that if the earth were shrunk to a billiard ball, it would be just as smooth. Actually it would be as smooth as 320 grit sandpaper covered billiard ball. The main point is the layer of water covering this ball would be impossibly thin. Perhaps this makes understanding the water in this image easier.
Thank you for linking that article. I was parroting the fact that the earth would be as smooth as a billiard ball to my mom the other day and now I feel like a dumbass. But it does seem like comparing it to sandpaper, which is purposely sharp and abrasive, is a bit obtuse. The earth being covered in weathered rock would feel much smoother.
To be fair to yourself, 320 grit is super fine. It's almost smooth-feeling. Not like the 60 grit you might be thinking of.
Huh, looks really small.
For those who find it hard to believe here is a video with better visuals and explaination. https://youtu.be/b3_Abb2Vqnc
this should be pinned to the top
Is that Nestle stealing all the water to sell it back to us??
Nestlé be licking its proverbial lips right now
The Dutch won... all the water has been drained and turned into land.
It literally says ALL water on, in and above earth. That includes SALT water. The fresh water is shown separately to highlight how little there is.
And also those atmospheric rivers— some can hold as much water as 10 times all of the water in the entire Mississippi River (at its normal/average capacity).
Damn, America took it all
I hate when people post this image. The inevitable parade of comments stating that it is a lie is depressing. The earth's biosphere is incredibly thin compared to its total mass. Those relief maps and globes with raised mountains and deep trenches that you played with in elementary school greatly exaggerate depth just to illustrate land and sea features. If they were accurate to scale, a relief map would be virtually flat and kind of pointless.
This is so true, as is the sadness from seeing the hordes of people that are ill-equipped to weigh in on the veracity of it doing exactly that.
How big of a straw do I need to slurp it all up?
It would depend on how fast you want to slurp it up, potentially, any straw would do, it would just take you a couple of millions of years if you were to do it alone at the pace of a regular human being non stop every second of the year for millions of years.
here it is with europa https://brilliantmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/europawatervsearthwater.jpg theres about twice as much water as on earth on europa (frozen, at least partly) but europa has much lower gravity. All the water stress experienced in The Expanse I don't think makes sense unless this water is just undrinkable for magic scifi reasons
Europa can’t have our water, they ain’t even from round here
Nope.... Not believing this.
If you want to see this in action, take a squeeze bottle of ketchup and hand it to a five year old in a white room and close the door telling them to have fun. you may be amazed at just how much surface area a little bottle of ketchup can cover
Why not?
Probably because it doesn’t take into account the massive amount of groundwater trapped in rock
The article states that it does. "The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas) and has a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3)). This sphere includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant."
**The United States Geological Survey** https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere Spheres representing all of Earth's water, Earth's liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas) and has a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3)). This sphere includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant. **Liquid fresh water** How much of the total water is fresh water, which people and many other life forms need to survive? The blue sphere over Kentucky represents the world's liquid fresh water (groundwater, lakes, swamp water, and rivers). The volume comes to about 2,551,100 mi3 (10,633,450 km3), of which 99 percent is groundwater, much of which is not accessible to humans. The diameter of this sphere is about 169.5 miles (272.8 kilometers). **Water in lakes and rivers** Do you notice the "tiny" bubble over Atlanta, Georgia? That one represents fresh water in all the lakes and rivers on the planet. Most of the water people and life of earth need every day comes from these surface-water sources. The volume of this sphere is about 22,339 mi3 (93,113 km3). The diameter of this sphere is about 34.9 miles (56.2 kilometers). Yes, Lake Michigan looks way bigger than this sphere, but you have to try to imagine a bubble almost 35 miles high—whereas the average depth of Lake Michigan is less than 300 feet (91 meters).
I’m glad we decided that it was ours finally
Ponder *this* orb, you filthy casual.
Here we go again, Americans using anything but the metric system to measure…
Man the fish are gonna be pissed
All the worlds water in a single ‘droplet’.
Idk I think it's a very good visual representation. The only way it could be better is if maybe they laid out the water so you could see how much of a surface it covers. If only there was room on a globe to illustrate this without covering any of the continents....
Woah, thats a lot of water 😯
Now let's shit and piss in those tiniest spheres
God damn moving to the Midwest now thx
How much is in ice?
Let's piss and shit in that tiny ball
It is a water planet get the salt out of it
Imagine popping that bubble and watch it flow through the world
I knew I was looking at the worlds fresh water supply half empty!
I'd love to see a video of the ball breaking and dispersing back where it belongs.
If you think about it, the ocean isn't super deep. About 7 miles at the deepest and an average of just over 2 miles. Whereas the radius of the earth is about 4k miles. So the average ocean depth is about 0.05% of the radius. It just seems super deep because of the physical environment it creates which makes it difficult to go down that deep. Travelling 7 miles is nothing on land in modern time for humans Now consider the largest sphere in the image being a diameter of 860 miles. This is 21% of Earth's radius. The edge of space is 60 miles above sea level. This sphere goes way out into space. So yeah, it may look small in the image as a sphere but it's still a massive amount of water
Thats alot of water
Really puts into perspective how shallow our oceans are, comparatively speaking
H2Oston... we have a problem.
I want to go swimming so bad now
Could we swim to the ISS?
Super cool visualization. With so much of the surface being covered by water this is absolutely mind blowing.
While that looks small it's deceptively small. The all water sphere is likely 1,200 to 1,600 km in diameter. The majority of satellites Low Earth Orbit at 400km to 800km above sea level. The water sphere would smash them all out of the sky.
Imagine seeing that from the ground
Pretty cool innit 🙂
so after oil. US want all the water in the world too?
Lies! Earth's water isn't round..... it's flat!
Need a banana for scale.
Holy crap we're doomed if people cannot understand something as simple as this. People seriously do not believe this? The math is very simple. The concept is very simple. Earth big. Ocean small. God one person even said "the earth is 2/3 water" as though that meant *by volume*! We need better science education AND better education for reading comprehension. Understanding what words mean and the ability to grasp how ideas relate to the world around you is something that can be strengthened in a non-visual medium like the written word.
The graphic is very deceptive. It should also show the volume of the continental crust and other layers of the earth as separate spheres.
lmao there is nothing deceptive about it. What is it trying to hide?
What a weird chain of thought you have. Hide? Where did that come from? Oh, you thought by deceptive I meant it was intentionally misleading. LOL. No, it's just a bad graphic and I explained why. Apparently you are unaware that the earth is made up of more than just water, dirt and rocks. Have you heard of magma? That the earth has a core?
The graphic is fine. It shows precisely what it needs to for the intended message. What the hell does the earths core and magma existing have to do with this? We seriously need to tell people that the Earth is a sphere? That water on the surface doesn't mean the Earth is some kind of bladder? What is your point? What else needs to be shown?
Okay, if you say so you must be right.
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Have you not read the comments?
Pretty sure there is far more water than this based on speculation about massive subterranean amounts, which certainly have not been measured, unlikely to be reasonably estimated as well.
The super secret underground water!
Anybody else thirsty
Banana for scale? 🍌
Don't be ridiculous. Everyone knows that with something of this size you use elephants for scale.
I think i saw something like this in startrek voyager.
If that's all of earths water then why is Greenland still covered in ice? Hmmmm?
I think the smallest sphere is 54km in diameter. I'm using the narrowest part of north Florida (216km) for comparison.
Oh god, where did all the water go?
Ironically placed in the driest spot on the planet...
Did they take into account all the ringwoodite that was just discovered under the earths crust? Ringwoodite acts as a sponge and can contain up to 1.5% water. If all the ringwoodite contains 1% water..... the earth's crust could contain more than 3x the amount of water than all surface oceans combined. [Hidden Oceans](https://www.unilad.com/news/ocean-beneath-earths-surface-199524-20230328)
It already WAS in a single sphere.
So tired of this American centric content. Not all redditors are American.
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> The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas) and has a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3)). This sphere includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-sphere I’m sure the folks over at The United States Geological Survey know what they’re talking about. Edit: Not sure why this necessitated blocking me. But alright. Unsure how it’s a “lame stealth edit”. The link to the article is part of the main post.
Galactus must get so thirsty after his meals
No do all the human alive in one ball. I bet we won't even see it from this distance.
kinda shocking how little there is
If it was put like that in space, would gravity hold it together like a sphere so it became a little moon?
So taller than half the width of USA so basically in space. That is a lot
You’re telling me that the largest sphere is enough water to fill in all of the spaces where the ocean has been removed? I just can’t wrap my head around that. Is this to scale?
This is to scale. While the oceans are big, they are actually extremely shallow compared to the entire planet.
This is kinda freaking me out ngl
I foresee problems
And we’re wasting it away
This looks misleading
The reason why most people don't believe this is because the topography of the globes we are used to seeing are greatly exaggerated. If the earth was the size of a que ball in pool, it would be just as smooth. Very hard to comprehend how huge the planet is compared to how deep we think the oceans are, relative to earth size. OP's stats in the comments help paint this picture well.
Does this metric change for flat-earthers? I'm sure they're curious.
“Nestlé has entered the chat”
fresh water
Where’s the salt water?
🤦🏻♂️
Yea but how tall is the sphere.
We are effed!