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If you genie-wished the atmosphere away in one instant, I wonder what type of explosion the oceans would do as the new at atmosphere emerges, from the gases and
by topherclay 3y ago
If you genie-wished the atmosphere away in one instant, I wonder what type of explosion the oceans would do as the new at atmosphere emerges, from the gases and liquids that didn't count as atmosphere before suddenly find a new equilibrium.
- mormegil 3y agoThis is exactly the kind of question Randall Munroe answers in his What If <https://what-if.xkcd.com/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/>. Unfortunately, this specific one seems not to be answered there?
- ajkjk 3y agoWell they would boil instantly, basically. Presumably the result would be a lot like the old atmosphere, just... mostly water?
- avar 3y agoEven if we had no oceans (or other bodies of water, or ice) we'd instantly get a new atmosphere from the resulting vacuum-induced outgassing.