What if you drained the oceans?
What if you drained the oceans?
Link to original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/
Now I'm wondering what the minimum amount of water required to sustain the current levels of life on earth.
10 0 ReplyI think that would be the current amount of water. Any water loss (or water gain for that matter) is going to cause massive problems worldwide.
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I'm kinda interested in what Mars would look like with all that water. Small northern ocean, or small southern continent?
8 0 ReplyThat idea was actually explored in Drain the Oceans: Part II, on the xkcd website. I hope Randall makes a video version of that as well.
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Love it.
Why’s the Netherlands controlling everything again?
6 0 ReplyIt's the natural state of affairs, duh.
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That's mad delta P, yo
4 0 ReplyThanks for this post. I totally forgot I bought his What If? book and it's sitting on my shelf.
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