Stealing from jwz

[theweaselking]

"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."

Comments

[caramia.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm air + water boobies.

[psyco-path.livejournal.com]

It's pretty. It doesn't do a good job of conveying scale.

What's the pressure of the air ball?

[anivair.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that neither the pressure of the water nor the air has been changed (so you'll have a mix of pressures) though it's possible that pressure wasn't taken into account at all and we are just looking at material volume as it is now.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

As it says in the description: sea-level density. So, one atmosphere.

[psyco-path.livejournal.com]

Reading is hard and I am lazy.

Since you know I'm an American you probably have assumed this much already

[autobotsrollout.livejournal.com]

And the moral of the story: whatever happens, if you live in Italy, you're doing all right.

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

uh, except the whole being directly underneath 1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of water thing

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

So... our atmosphere is slightly smaller than the Moon?