Facts about water

This week we look at just how much water there is on the Earth, and whether it's really as much as people who write out big numbers with lots of zeros would have you believe.

Fun fact: Dihydrogen monoxide is just a redundant name for water people use when pulling hoaxes on uneducated politicians.

Tidepool image from Ernest Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Galaxy images courtesy of ESO and NASA, especially this gem by ESO/M. Kornmesser: http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1012a/
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/copyright.html

Music by Soundprank: http://ccmixter.org/files/soundprank/23030

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Science & Technology

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• water
• facts
• earth
• tides
• ice
• density
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