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    I Gotta Weird Question with GringoStar - Episode 1: Earth/Human Water Content

    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.

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    Topic suggestions for episode 2? Obviously it will be less wide-ranging and boring.

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    The amount of water in the entire world to people is not nearly comparable. Like not even close.

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    Thread needs a theme song. I couldn't find any Earth Wind and Fire bangers so this Kilgore Trout/LarryLaffer collabo will have to do.



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    Quote Originally Posted by BetCheckBet View Post
    The amount of water in the entire world to people is not nearly comparable. Like not even close.
    I completely agree and never made that claim.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BetCheckBet View Post
    The amount of water in the entire world to people is not nearly comparable. Like not even close.
    This. A gallon of water weighs about 7 lb. If a 200 lb person were 100% water, they would be about 30 gallons. 7 billion people on earth means 210 billion gallons of water. Double the population that's 420 billion gallons. All these numbers are rough obviously. Does 420 billion gallons sound like a lot? The Great Lakes alone hold about 6 quadrillion gallons of water.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by GringoStar View Post
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    The amount of water in the entire world to people is not nearly comparable. Like not even close.
    I completely agree and never made that claim.
    No, but you did openly wonder if pop growth could fight sea level risings, and the huge variation between humans & their water content, compared to the earth's actual water content, makes this answer a seemingly obvious "no." HK's answer illustrates that fairly simply, IMO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crowe Diddly View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by GringoStar View Post

    I completely agree and never made that claim.
    No, but you did openly wonder if pop growth could fight sea level risings, and the huge variation between humans & their water content, compared to the earth's actual water content, makes this answer a seemingly obvious "no." HK's answer illustrates that fairly simply, IMO.
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    Kind of related, but I recently read that the world's population of termites weighs 10 times that of humans. Or maybe it's ants, but I think its termites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brittney Griner's Clit View Post
    Thread needs a theme song. I couldn't find any Earth Wind and Fire bangers so this Kilgore Trout/LarryLaffer collabo will have to do.



     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crowe Diddly View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by GringoStar View Post

    I completely agree and never made that claim.
    No, but you did openly wonder if pop growth could fight sea level risings, and the huge variation between humans & their water content, compared to the earth's actual water content, makes this answer a seemingly obvious "no." HK's answer illustrates that fairly simply, IMO.
    If you consider there was once several million humans and now there are 7+ billion and rapidly growing while the amount of water remains constant, your math may change slightly. But I also openly admitted that this was a silly and boring thing to "openly" wonder about. I wasn't suggesting we would see any results in this lifetime.

    Besides, isn't it good that there was an answer. To some it's an open and close case, to others it makes you think. It's a "how many ping pong balls fit inside a school bus?" kinda thing. What would the population need to reach to drop the global sea levels by 1 cm?
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    Quote Originally Posted by GringoStar View Post
    and now there are 7+ billion and rapidly growing
    Fake news. We are close to peak population.
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    Not only are humans not that big a deal on a global scale, we're not even that big a deal within the animal kingdom. Humanity weighs about 350 million metric tonnes. Antarctic krill (the stuff blue whales eat) weighs in at 379M. And topping the list is Bos taurus, commonly known as the moo cow. There are 520 million tonnes of future beef walking around the planet. But that's entire people's doing, so it actually adds to what you're talking about.

    Still, if you made a list of all of the ways humans are fucking up the planet, "hoarding fresh water in our fat asses" is on like page 3.

     
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    interesting how as the population of the earth (not just humans) grows the glaciers are melting at a increasing rate as well, it would be quite difficult to graph both accurately but i wouldn't be surprised if the number are not to far off.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baron Von Strucker View Post
    interesting how as the population of the earth (not just humans) grows the glaciers are melting at a increasing rate as well, it would be quite difficult to graph both accurately but i wouldn't be surprised if the number are not to far off.

    wow yeah they should publish that theory and call it 'global warming' or something.

     
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