All the Water on Planet Earth

[Ali]

How much of planet Earth is made of water?
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120515.html

[Dave]

Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius.

Now you are talking my language. Whenever data is presented, we must remember it is never all the data relevent. Things are so interwoven on a much larger scale than most people consider. This statement I copied at the nasa.gov image link seems very straight forward and matter of fact.

But, if you consider all the Fluid Dynamics of planet earth, one must consider the additional contributions of ground aquifers.

From my theory: "How much of all this water was originally trapped within the soft mantle of the earth prior to decompression? Almost anywhere we build on land, all we have to do is sink a hole into the ground far enough and we have a well. Our cultural knowledge base also recognizes that this well water actually comes from a large ground water aquifer. Many of the aquifers are hugh in scale, for example, the Kansas-Missouri aquifer includes all the ground water between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River Valley. Just imagine the scale of the water aquifers trapped within our planet's mantle. These mantle aquifers could possible be so much larger than man has ever considered before."

How bout mantel aquifers?

Also, from my theory: "Japanese researchers have investigated the moisture content of the earth’s mantel. Measurements indicate that the average predicted H2O content of the mantel to be about 0.19% by weight. Based on what they witnessed in their lab, the researchers concluded that more water probably exists deep within the Earth than is present on Earth's surface—as much as five times more."

All data is good data, but all data must be be weighed in the light of the larger data set.

[Virginia]

Florida is experiencing giant sink holes due to a drought. They have no idea where it will end. The Bush family has purchased thousands of land in Argentina because of a large aquifer there. They could not by up Texas because Pickens or one of the other billionairs has already done it. Whoever owns the water will be able to rule.

[Richard]

2 points

1 - You re correct about the future importance of water. It isn't drinking water that is the real issue. We have technology to purify drinking water. We make drinking water from seawater. The ISS crew uses the same water over and over in a recyclable system - yes they make drinking water from urine.

The issue with future water supplies is in the irrigation of our crops. Pollution will finally come to a point where irrigating the crops with ground water will only contaminate the crops.

We do not have the technology to purify that much water - or it would be so expensive that no one will be able to buy the crops anyway.



2 - SINK HOLES
Sink holes are a great example of the fluid dynamics of planet earth. As aquifers become depleted, soils dry out, become less dense, until heavier soils above compress the soils beneath and the ground sinks.

Expanding Earth - as you know, I am a firm believer in an expanding earth, which has slowed almost to a stand still, because the outward decompression of our mantel has reach - or come close to reaching - its hydrostatic equilibrium. If this is true - would not the next logical step be the collapse of surface features back toward the core?

Future theories - check out some people on the web - Lori Tori and Gordon-Michel Schandlin. Both futurist have maps about future changes to the planets land mass. Both suggest that the Mississippi River will widen into the Bay of Mississippi - and - that one day the the Colorado Plateau will fall, crash, sink, back toward the core and the Western Sea Coast of America will be Phx and Denver.

I am not really a futurist and stray away from pin point predictions - however - I will say that both of these futurist theories are 100% consistent with FD-WEDT

[Stella]

All the water on Europa

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