Water, water everywhere?
We're taught from childhood that Earth is the 'blue planet', in fact Sir Dvid Attenborough had an entire TV series called 'the blue planet', however I dont remember Him ever telling us what I have written here.
When you look at a globe, or a weather map of the world, you will notice water everywhere, in fact it appears to be covered in colossal oceans, endless rains, and raging rivers. But if you could collect every drop of moisture on the globe into a single sphere, how much water is there really compared to the planet beneath our feet?
The illusion of endless oceans
When you stand on a coastline, the sea appears to be endless.
Oceans cover approx 70% of the Earth's surface, creating monsoons, tornadoes, and massive weather cycles.
Yet this immense layer is barely a film in proportion to the Earth's size, effectively meaning that all of the ocean's and rivers combined, are thinner than the skin of an apple.
A tiny droplet on a giant rock
If you collected all the water on Earth, from every ocean, every icecap, every cloud, and every lake, every river, and every stream, it would form a sphere approximately eight hundred and sixty miles in diameter.
Now go and research the size of planet Earth, and make your own comparisons 🤔
By volume, water accounts for around less than one-tenth of one percent of Earth. Most of what makes our planet is solid rock and metal.
Life within the blue veil
Despite water making up such a tiny fraction of our planetary mass, it hosts some of the most extraordinary intelligence on Earth.
Once you understand the true nature of our seas, discover how creatures adapt to its depths,
Why not have a read about the "alien," AKA, the octopus next.