This seems geared to make the amount of water on the planet look small, but it backfired for me. I still remember the first time I flew over Lake Michigan, and

This seems geared to make the amount of water on the planet look small, but it backfired for me. I still remember the first time I flew over Lake Michigan, and my mind was blown at the impossible scale of all that water. In this image, most people compare the water to the Earth. Nice, homey, medium sized Earth. In comparison, the water looks tiny. I was drawn to that far tinier lake to its right, which once blew my mind. Comparing the lake to the big wet globe feels like skipping a few steps in Powers of Ten (or Gurren Lagann). All I know for sure is that my poor human brain sucks at scale. "Bigger than I understand" arrives far too soon.