Tuesday, March 11, 2008

All the water and all the air

Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc.
Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth.



This reveals how very fragile our world is. Imagine trying to keep this balanced. I can imagine both (and therefore mankind), hopelessly disrupted with one wrong move.
Prepared by Adam Nieman and the Science Photo Library. Thanks to Boing boing.

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