I gotta weird question and this will be my first.
Questions are an interesting thing because, aside from personal opinions, people are asking them less and less, because we're all Google geniuses now and don't need to ask practical questions. People often treat you like you're lazy because you're asking them the time or the nearest train station. I could go on.
Anyway, I have been wondering about this question for awhile and it's the one thing I have not done a deep dig on the Internets about. It seems like a funky Fermi question, but I feel like it also would involve expert level in several fields to answer fully:
Assuming there is a fixed amount of water on the Earth (not including a negligible amount of atmospheric exchange that apparently occurs in/out of inner/outer space) and the classic truism holds true that humans are made up of mostly water; would it make sense that, as the human population grows, there is measurably less water in the oceans and water systems, etc?
I know we are essentially reverse water filters that constantly suck up water and piss it back out in to the system, but I think even not including drinkable water, the addition of billions of people would have to carry around a significant amount of water within their body, almost at all times.
I'm sure this growth isn't in pace to counteract the rapid melting of glaciers, but I would be interested to see if population growth couldn't actually, perversely, fight against rising sea levels. Then again, we would need to find an economical way to filter salt water.
The bullshit you chew on when you have insomnia. Bring the hate, or fall asleep, I could care less.
Topic suggestions for episode 2? Obviously it will be less wide-ranging and boring.