Ten Mindbending Facts About Water

[Fred Sanders]

http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/facts-about-water/

10. Earth Doesn’t Have as Much Water as you Probably Think it Does



9. Europa Actually Has Much More Water Than Earth

8 more things you need to know about water at the link.

[packman]

1. The tie that binds us all

"...molecules found in your drinking water passed through the bladder of Einstein, Shakespeare, Cleopatra, Sir Issac Newton and maybe even Confucius himself… pretty much anyone you can think of." They always give the crème de la crème of humanity, but not the dregs and scum of humanity - every murderer, rapist, pervert, etc. of the human race also.

[99th_Monkey]

2. Awesome article. Thanks Fred -nt-

[Fred Sanders]

3. Thank you! The fact there is so little water, and air, on the planet needs to be more widely known.

This is another of my favorite illustrations to make the point about the atmosphere and how thin it is and why humans CAN influence what is there:



http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834515cf969e20120a6d70fd5970b-pi

[99th_Monkey]

4. Totally. It caught me completely off-guard.

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Those visuals drive the point home quite well.

On edit: I'm so used to seeing the visual of the surface, where it appears the earth is
about 1/2 water, but alas it is not. It occurs to me this is a great example of how "optics"
can be very deceiving, even in nature.

[AuntPatsy]

5. Interesting food for thought..

[Nitram]

6. Interesting points, but I think #7 is a bit exaggerated.

Raindrops need a nucleus of some kind, but most of them form around particles of dust that originated on the surface of the earth.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Thank you. n/t