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[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

The Earth's surface area is about 70% percent covered by water.

More than 95 percent of the water is in the oceans, and they make up less than 1 percent of the Earth's total volume.

If you go by mass instead of volume the fraction is even lower.

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

So earth is basically barely wet, huh?

[-] aow@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Ok, so it's flat and on top of another object, like a board on a wheel! The surface is flat but wobbles a bit.

[-] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Very true, and although my specialty is not geology, I'm fairly confident the magma is also not carbonated.

Idk, how do you explain geysers? If you taste the water runoff, it's very clearly carbonated (and nasty with a very metallic taste).

[-] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I expected most volcanic gasses (and geysers) to be largely sulfuric. After looking it up, I have to agree. The Earth is full of dissolved gasses making it not flat.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not a geologist either, but I know there is in fact have a lot of gaz dissolved into magma.

Considering there is far more magma than water on earth, I can confidently say that eath is not flat.

[-] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Since I am a pedant, I would agree with you after looking up volcanic gas composition. I love how we can get to the smart stuff via dumb memes.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Besides molten rock, magma may also contain suspended crystals and gas bubbles.

Source : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma

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