Why is there so much water on this planet?

Me too, OP, me too.

We’re going to take be looking at that, OP. Those oceans have been taking advantage of this great country for too long. You know, I get this stuff, I’m good at it. Did you see my ratings? Through the roof. We’re going to take a look at China, the WHO, and we’re going to build a beautiful wall. That virus doesn’t stand a chance.

And what about all the trees? We need more CONCRETE!

I don't mind rivers and lakes, but the oceans seem unnecessary. Like, over kill.

We can't drink ocean water because it's so salty. So what's it good for? And why SO MUCH ocean water?

[quote]And why SO MUCH ocean water?

For 400-lb beached whales like OP and R1-R4. How clueless they are.

Oceans regulate the climate.

OP is too stupid to live

Less water, more Pepsi-Cola!

As already stated, the oceans regulate a lot of the earth’s climate, never mind the fact that all life originally started in the oceans.

They actually think that in the future we’ll be forced to farm the ocean and start having to eat modified forms of krill and plankton.

Sorry OP but there will soon be even more water and even less land

Bad news OP -- there is water at the bottom of the ocean.

Really? Another one? Someone paying you to start these, asshole?

So when God finally decides to end it, which is probably soon the way things are going, there's enough to flood us all out.

OP, you've been on quite a tear against natural bodies the last couple of days.

Are there meds or at least therapy you can get to calm your autism down?

You need to learn to accept the world for what it is. It's complicated and it doesn't always make tidy sense. And you don't get to wipe out blobfish or Tuatara lizards or deep-sea crags or cheese graters because you don't like or understand them.

There is a lot of water because there are a lot of animals peeing all the time. If they could hold it in a little more it would help us all out.

It's from the "great flood."

[quote] They actually think that in the future we’ll be forced to farm the ocean and start having to eat modified forms of krill and plankton.

You sound like BOX from the movie Logan's Run:

"Fish, plankton, sea greens... protein from the sea!"

OP the Human body is 60% water, you should dehydrate yourself.

I think OP's head is 100% water and no carbon based life.

Pepsi-Cola hits the Spot,

12 full ounces that’s a lot!!

Why don't we build a tube to the atmosphere and ship out about 1 meter of sea level?

You’re right, r17. I’ve always thought the future is going to like that Charlton Heston movie Soylent Green, only the rich will be able to eat real food, while the rest of us will be chowing down on sea algae and human offal.

As already discussed on this thread, the oceans are what controls the Earths climate OP. Humans have raised the mean temperature of the oceans less than 2 degrees and caused a major climate change on the land.

Actually, we should add more water to the oceans to drop the temperature back to what it was before!!!

The oceans are a pain in the ass.

They cause hurricanes, tidal waves, storms, and flooding.

We should just get rid of them.

[quote] R2: We’re going to take be looking at that, OP...

But are you going to be looking at it [italic] strongly? [/italic]

[quote]They actually think that in the future we’ll be forced to farm the ocean and start having to eat modified forms of krill and plankton.

As long as it's super-sized and comes with cheese, I'm good.

I don't eat seafood.

Too late, r23. We're getting rid of you and your kind.

"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust"?

Please

You came from us. We'll make you Rust.

The oceans exist so we have a place to dump our plastic trash. Sheesh!

Now when the Donald takes an immense bowel movement while on White House toilet that large fatberg sized lump fecal matter has to head for ocean, as their is no other place on the planet that can swallow his shit..,

The water is kindof necessary for our existence--to absorb carbon dioxide, create conditions for rain. Do you live in some sunbelt sprawlburg that never has rain and is sucking its life's blood out of the ground or did you just snooze through science class?

But what would become of the axolotl?

OP is DJT. For real, I think he said something like "can't we kill all the sharks because they scare me?" or something equally imbecilic and not facetiously.

You can’t even drink it.

Since OP is readying his bendy straw to suck out all the ocean water, I’m inquiring if there is such a thing as an axolotl aquarium butler?

If so, I want to adopt. Love those buggers. But aquarium upkeep is just not my thing.

Remember, the oceans are a hideout for these little buggers....

Me too, R35.

I've never heard of an axolotl before, but they're so adorable. I want one!

I can't believe they're almost extinct.

Axolotyls look like Sea Monkeys from those old magazines.

I always figured we were going to be swallowed up by the ocean one day. The ocean just allows us to exist...for now. Don’t get too cocky op.

Be wary, r37, be very wary.

Axolotls are only going extinct in the wild, but in home aquariums they thrive.

They multiply like rabbits, then murder their hosts. Watch out, they are quick on their tiny feet.

They are sly. They are cunning. Their cuteness is a siren’s song.

I offer you definitive proof with an invetigation by the DL community itself, at the link.

Knowledge is armor. Know things, r37, know things.

There’s no need to be afraid of sharks op. What you really need to be scared of is all the unknown stuff in the deep sea.

Scientists believe that ~4 billion years ago, two large bodies collided. The collision threw-up matter into a ring around the other. The ring eventually grouped together to form the moon, revolving around the Earth. The surface of the proto-Earth re-melted into molten rock, because of the collision.

The post-collision temperature on the Earth would have boiled away any existing water, which would then have escaped into space. So where did the ocean water come from? They now think it arrived by billions of years of comets and asteroids crashing into the Earth, and carrying a little wateron themselves. Seems far fetched, but that is the leading theory today.

Oh, at some point, all that water vapor in the atmosphere started to condense into rain. They think it rained for literally millions of years.

If we can get rid of the oceans, we can drive to England and France!

The oceans have been a major CO2 sink over the past two hundred years. Without them, our climate would be even worse off.

But, you know what, OP? You should be the change you see in the world. Volunteer yourself to reduce our oceanic burden by drinking a couple gallons of seawater every day. Good luck!

We don't need more land, we need less people. Preferably Trumps...

[quote]Oceans regulate the climate.

Then why does the EPA exist?

Due to all that whale shit, r46.

Even more of the world used to be covered by ocean. I used to love in Alberta and that used to be prehistoric seas.

Ew. Salty.

Not to mention the kraken

[quote]And what about all the trees? We need more CONCRETE!

Those trees are stealing our oxygen. Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore??

Pierre’s apt description of the birth of the moon, at r42, reminds me of a similar theory on the birth of My Mom Eggs.

I call it Bad Breakfast, and it correlates with our planetary destruction.

Take a buttery hot sizzling active heat source, like the earth or a cast iron skillet. Spin it around and ‘round til the heat builds, then hit it with a pound of cold raw bacon, the size of Mars (sorry, Carl.)

Flashover! Collision! Duck for cover! Here comes the steam!

Everyone dies, of course. Your eggs wither, your bacon over-crisps. Your breakfast dies because your pan was too hot to begin with (I’m talking to YOU, Earth.)

Where was your ocean? Where was your ocean? Your ocean, your heat blast mitigator, what have you done?

You want a calm, reasonably warm Earth colliding with cold raw Egg. The blast stuns. Yolks heave. Steam surrounds and buttery oceans lap up and over your newborn curds. Dare you stir?

What price for glory? What price for breakfast? Your eggs are browning on the bottom. What do you do?

What do you do, DL? What do you do??

Their must be a drain, somewhere...

Trees are selfish.

Sun sun sun.

Water water water.

Me me me.

I’m sick of it.

*There must be a drain,

for my Oh Dear...

Water dissolving and water removing

There is water at the bottom of the ocean

Under the water, carry the water

Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!

Water dissolving and water removing

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again into silent water

Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground

r42 it's literally raining somewhere on earth at all times. Rain for millions of years sounds about right.

There's something in the water

I do not feel safe

It always feels like torture

to be this close

.

I wish that I was stronger

I'd separate the waves

Not just let the water

Take me away

And what the HELL happened to my ice cube trays??

They were full a few months ago.

Today I pull them out, empty.

Who can I trust. What can I trust.

Evaporation, you stealth assassin.

If you got rid of all the water, blind-deaf people wouldn’t be able to learn English

Yes, R57, I suppose.

At the link, the flashes you see are lightning strikes.

OP, why is the ocean near the shore?

Here is how much water is available in the world. Note how it prefers America. The smaller sphere represents fresh water.