Is it the fact that a sphere of “all the lakes and rivers worth of water” is like 1/10th the size of Lake Michigan? Something about this scale is not right. Or something about sphere volume is deceptive.
Neil deGrasse Tyson explained the Earth's surface is smoother than a que ball by the production standards at scale. Pretty wild to think about but it helps me understand why such a seemingly small glob of water could cover the majority of the planet.
It's about total volume and they're being compared. The details are suspect but when I imagine the total volume of surface water vs the total planet, this doesn't seem too far off.
If you made an exactly to scale topographical globe (like some globes where the mountains and what not are raised up) the size of a billiard ball, it would be smoother than any billiard ball could possibly be manufactured. The difference between the highest point on earth (Everest) and the lowest (Mariana’s trench) is about 11 miles. Lay that out flat and you can walk that distance in a few hours easily.
I also did some guesstimating and found that the diameter of the cube is roughly 1380 km which is approximately the distance from Washington DC to Jacksonville Fl.
I was thinking the same thing. I can’t comprehend the possibility of the smallest sphere filling all the great lakes, not to mention all of earth’s other freshwater lakes and rivers. Usually infographics are neat but this one does a bad job getting the message across.
Cuz it's a 3D ball, pretty impossible to tell how big each ball really is, like is it 10 feet tall or 1000 stories tall. Not sure why they would make it like that.
I was really amazed when I saw this graphic. Previously I thought the amount of water was 10X that much. I do believe that this amount will change over time as they discover more underground pockets of water that will increase the total amount. But still this seems to be amazingly little water for our planet.
One big mistake and then the Earth will fully turn into desert. Is it really possible for Earth to dry up just like how Mars suspected to be abundant of water before?
People overestimate how much water is on earth, likely cause they have little grasp on how depth is extremely minuscule compared to the incredible size of the earth.
you know how when you spill a cup of water on a flat surface and it spreads out connecting to other drops of water that's basically whats happening with all the water on earth it spreads out and covers a large area
For all the doubters here is another comparison… the largest sphere (if perched at sea level) is over TWICE as high as the International Space Station.
I feel like this is a bad way to present it. If they want to show it in comparison to the rest of the earth, then that's fine. Though i would rather present the continents as another sphere, so that they can be compared instead.
It is though. It's a sphere of water. The oceans are just a few miles deep at their deepest, which is practically nothing at this scale. It's basically just a thin film of water covering the planet.
This reminds me of the one about gold. If you took all the gold ever mined and melted it into a cube, it would fit under the Eiffel Tower. Which is again hard to believe given the millions of people with gold things, and the size of the industries created around it, but it’s true
Something seems off with this, the worlds oceans can't be that shallow? Picture that you spread that sphere of water across all the earths oceans + the icecaps on both the poles? No way that can be all of earths water
I've always pondered this dilemma; as humans breed in plague proportions across the globe (8 billion), and we are made of 70% water would this not have an impact?
Might not be 100% correct. That's probably how much water on the crust, but recent research suggest twice that much or more might exist under the crust and inside the earth mantle.
I’m confused, what’s the difference between 2 and 3? Where is all this extra “liquid fresh water” of its not in the “lakes and rivers” I understand there’s a lot of fresh water in the ice caps, but that’s not liquid. I also understand there’s a lot of fresh water in the atmosphere, but again, that’s not really liquid
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I went to the source (
https://ssec.si.edu/stemvisions-blog/there-ocean-below-your-feet
Is it the fact that a sphere of “all the lakes and rivers worth of water” is like 1/10th the size of Lake Michigan? Something about this scale is not right. Or something about sphere volume is deceptive.
It does feel wrong!!
Here is the wiki entry with more detailed infographics.
Yeah. And similarly insane: all humans would fit in a 1 km3 cube.
Neil deGrasse Tyson explained the Earth's surface is smoother than a que ball by the production standards at scale. Pretty wild to think about but it helps me understand why such a seemingly small glob of water could cover the majority of the planet.
By circuit city?
wtf put it back
No! America's water now, ya water worm!
Man jokes like that always get me
Spit out my water reading this, sir you’re good
Yea not cool man put it back
I drink your water! ☝️
Too late all the fish are dead
This really doesn’t look right to me. Seems like the smallest sphere wouldn’t even fill the Great Lakes at the scale shown.
It's about total volume and they're being compared. The details are suspect but when I imagine the total volume of surface water vs the total planet, this doesn't seem too far off.
If you made an exactly to scale topographical globe (like some globes where the mountains and what not are raised up) the size of a billiard ball, it would be smoother than any billiard ball could possibly be manufactured. The difference between the highest point on earth (Everest) and the lowest (Mariana’s trench) is about 11 miles. Lay that out flat and you can walk that distance in a few hours easily.
theydidthemath
It seems smaller than that, maybe the distance between Fort Lauderdale and Miami
I also did some guesstimating and found that the diameter of the cube is roughly 1380 km which is approximately the distance from Washington DC to Jacksonville Fl.
Its is, its mindbogling, the same as the fact that if you would shrink earth to a cue ball size, the earth would be smoother than the cue ball.
Really.need to be investing in desalination tech....
I was all about that until I found out about how much it actually pollutes the ocean. It'll just kill off whatever remaining fish we have.
or stop polluting the water cycle
DuPont just bought a few Desal companies so they see the future
$ERII
Or wait till it rains
How can they really know what water is in the planet?
They put it in a really big graduated cylinder.
They collected it all into a ball so they could take this photo.
The north pole is actually a dipstick.
Math
they don't it's more propaganda
Nestlé audited it and are building storage facilities.
What's the difference between liquid fresh water and fresh water lakes and rivers?
Underground aquifers
Wondering that myself. If it's liquid fresh water, where could it be besides lakes and rivers?
According to the source, water in glaciers and ice caps.
(banana for scale)
Here you go:
That's right America just stole all of the water. Suck it other countries
AMERICAAAA FUCK YEAH!
AND NOW WERE GONNA CHARGE YA FOR IT
Convert water to oil with this one simple trick.
It's actually Canada
It looks like there is more water in lake superior alone than in the third sphere.
I was thinking the same thing. I can’t comprehend the possibility of the smallest sphere filling all the great lakes, not to mention all of earth’s other freshwater lakes and rivers. Usually infographics are neat but this one does a bad job getting the message across.
The third sphere also looks comparable to the amount of water that
Volume in the smallest one (rivers and lakes) is around 93,000km³ (56km diameter), Lake Superior is 12,100km³.
Cuz it's a 3D ball, pretty impossible to tell how big each ball really is, like is it 10 feet tall or 1000 stories tall. Not sure why they would make it like that.
Makes sense when you consider that, as a sphere, the Earth is smoother than a pool ball.
I understand what you’re saying, but it hurts my brain either way.
for those who have problems with this....
"Mine!!"- Nestle
I laughed out loud
Shit the water in the aqueduct in CA that can’t be used because of a 3” fish that tree huggers think is endangered!
😆😅🤣😂
I have my doubts about this one...
Goddammit America give it back
The comment section shows how many people dont understand the sheer volume of spheres
Calling BS on this one.
Why?
Theres no way this is accurate
It seems accurate to me. According to the US geological survey the biggest sphere should be about 950km in diameter, which looks about right.
Now make a same ball for land... It will be even smaller lol
The Michigan SC ruled today that 3M doesn't have to clean up PFAS from the water, so make that little drop littler.
Another interesting fact: The combined volume of all water on earth hasn't changed in millions of years.
Should’ve put it on Africa
Clearly it's enough to sustain all life on earth, so what's the big deal?
So you're telling me that the water that covers most of the surface summed up would be just tiny drop next to the usa? I don't believe this
Why is it sitting in the US? Did Nestle buy it?
Trust the US to hog it all.
Sorry we got the lakes lol
The next war is over water, this photo is the evidence.
Looks like the US already won.
America did as America does and jacked everyone's shit
I was really amazed when I saw this graphic. Previously I thought the amount of water was 10X that much. I do believe that this amount will change over time as they discover more underground pockets of water that will increase the total amount. But still this seems to be amazingly little water for our planet.
Good thing I'm in Cincinnati. Looks like we got all the fresh lake and river water now.
This is terrifying.
Considering how the smallest dot is tiny next to the Great Lakes, I’m thinking something is off.
Its a sphere, its far taller than the lakes
Imma need dimensions of those spheres and a number for how much water that’s suppose to represent prior to sphere-ing it. Fake news
Thank you for putting it into words, I had the same thought.
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Zoom in on the shadow of the second ball lmao
Bro imagine how long it took to suck up all the water on earth and turn it into a ball? Respect to whoever made this diagram!
This speaks volumes.
This I feel is an unfair representation as we don't get an angle to appreciate the depth.
false, we don't even know what's under a few miles of crust we gonna know how much water we have. all we have is guesses.
It’s not correct
I dont believe this.
I’m not saying this is false but I honestly just have a really hard time believing this
The thing is, the globe is relatively smooth. Compared to how deep the earth is, the ocean is nothing.
I wonder if that's still valid. They've recently found that there's a lot more water in the mantle than previously supposed.
Fresh water doesn’t invludes ocean salty water
It makes sense since you can't see the actual depth, so it just looks flat to us
Similar to supposed overpopulation lack of water is not an issue, and people become voerally afraid when confronted with images similar to this.
The little one is Nestle. Not sure why everyone bitches about it.
What tool is used for this visual or graphic?
The Midwest is about to be midwet
One big mistake and then the Earth will fully turn into desert. Is it really possible for Earth to dry up just like how Mars suspected to be abundant of water before?
Now I really also want to see how much of that water are in clouds, and in ice, and trapped in the ground.
People overestimate how much water is on earth, likely cause they have little grasp on how depth is extremely minuscule compared to the incredible size of the earth.
Why does it belong to America ?
you know how when you spill a cup of water on a flat surface and it spreads out connecting to other drops of water that's basically whats happening with all the water on earth it spreads out and covers a large area
For all the doubters here is another comparison… the largest sphere (if perched at sea level) is over TWICE as high as the International Space Station.
I feel like this is a bad way to present it. If they want to show it in comparison to the rest of the earth, then that's fine. Though i would rather present the continents as another sphere, so that they can be compared instead.
And 20% lies in the Great Lakes .
This is a very weird way to present the information which looks kinda wrong even if it’s not. I hate it.
Would be interesting to watch the ISS fly past or through that water globe, cause a lot of it is in space
12.340.000.000.000.000.000 m² water on earth
The first sphere is labeled as "All water on, in, and above the Earth" which clearly isn't true, as it isn't big enough to fill any of the oceans.
It is though. It's a sphere of water. The oceans are just a few miles deep at their deepest, which is practically nothing at this scale. It's basically just a thin film of water covering the planet.
Bullshit!
Looks like bullshit to me.
Inaccurate
So it doesn’t include salt water?
Yes?
This just doesn’t look right at all.
Karma farming
This reminds me of the one about gold. If you took all the gold ever mined and melted it into a cube, it would fit under the Eiffel Tower. Which is again hard to believe given the millions of people with gold things, and the size of the industries created around it, but it’s true
Something seems off with this, the worlds oceans can't be that shallow? Picture that you spread that sphere of water across all the earths oceans + the icecaps on both the poles? No way that can be all of earths water
This seems extremely low
confidentlyincorrect
Calling BS on this one
This has been debunked
I’m an idiot, but I know this shit is not accurate in the slightest. I’m calling the cops.
This is crap, the fresh water sphere wouldn’t even fill the Great Lakes.
What about water in the mantle? Is that also included?
It says "in" but there's no way to know how much is actually underground and it seems there's far more than previously thought.
What about the water inside our bodies if we are sitting in a lake
Dammit Roger! Quit peeing in the water!
“In the future I believe there will be water wars”- Cleveland Brown
Why does all of the fresh water on the planet look like it can’t fill the Great Lakes?
This is alarming.
Time to tap Antarctica
I've always pondered this dilemma; as humans breed in plague proportions across the globe (8 billion), and we are made of 70% water would this not have an impact?
What about ice
If you did this with only Africa I fear you would need a magnifying glass to see the drop
Hydrogen powered vehicles/water emissions would be too responsible and not profitable for big oil and EV.
I sure hope that water shit doesn't ever run out
I think there is fresh water outside of the usa
Where is the liquid fresh water if it’s not in lakes and rivers?
Keep in mind that you'd be able to see this massive water blob from Africa. It extends thousands of miles into space.
Half of that was in my bladder last weekend at the football game. I missed halftime and the 3rd qtr emptying it.
Cool story bro
There's another side to the planet
What about the water below the crust?
Lake balki in Russia THE WORLDs biggest freshwater lake in the world
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
Soo, and we want to drive fusion reactors with hydrogen to make it irreversible become helium?
hydrohomies
The tiny dot represents Minnesota.
I've seen contradictory stuff showing how little land there is compared to water.
How do they even know this? I don’t think this is accurate, but I could be wrong.
And its all in America FUCK YEAH
Scarcity psy-op
I thought there was more.
Now do pee.
I knew us Oklahomans had all the water. The neighbors wouldn't share theirs.
Newsflash. The world does revolve around the USA.
Nestle’s wet dream right here.
Somebody is a Madmax fan
Isn't ocean water just fresh water with salt in it?
Might not be 100% correct. That's probably how much water on the crust, but recent research suggest twice that much or more might exist under the crust and inside the earth mantle.
Now I wanna see a cgi of what that big ol drop would like falling from that altitude.
Next war will be for water not land or money
I don't think they are calculating the ice wall that's around us... I mean really these guys need to science harder.
0.0001%
I don't believe you
That doesn't seem like it's seem like it's going to be enough
That's where nestle wants it
People of Kansas are fucked if we did this in real life
We’re fkd in real life when the Oglala is sucked dry here in a decade
Give it back
I’m confused, what’s the difference between 2 and 3? Where is all this extra “liquid fresh water” of its not in the “lakes and rivers” I understand there’s a lot of fresh water in the ice caps, but that’s not liquid. I also understand there’s a lot of fresh water in the atmosphere, but again, that’s not really liquid
Underground water supplies. Its not just a representation of surface water, if im understanding correctly
So everyone outside the US is dead from dehydration?
That's a helluva lot of water.