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Also, who knows what a cubic mile of water is? ~10M cubic miles of water is ~10 Mediterranean seas. That's a lot. But the earth is enormous, so, is it really
by onlyrealcuzzo 2y ago
Also, who knows what a cubic mile of water is?
~10M cubic miles of water is ~10 Mediterranean seas.
That's a lot.
But the earth is enormous, so, is it really that surprising?
- cnity 2y agoFraming the amount of water in the Earth's seas in terms of one of the seas feels a bit circular :D.
- shawabawa3 2y agothe article is talking about water within the crust, which is different from water in the seas i.e. there's 10 mediterranean sea's worth of water underground that we can't sea from space
- yoav 2y agoSome of us are measuring the space in seas.
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- rtkwe 2y agoAny normal measurement unit here is going to be hard to grasp on it's own without translating it into an equivalency; XXXXXX olympic swimming pools or XX Y ocean.