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Originally posted by Chris42:
I CONTEST ALL THESE ARGUMENTS!

It’s in the BEER. All these microbreweries everywhere. It seems every little town has one, or two or three.

They suck up the water and put it in beer.

Solution? Isn’t it obvious? DRINK MORE BEER!

Filter it and put it back into the system.

Think I’ll start right now, right after I finish my coffee…

Flawed argument. You drunk the beer then piss out most of the residual water. When you take a sip of that battled water, it might have passed through Julius Caesar when he took a piss at the public piss house.

I have often wondered what the comparison would be to the volume of all palatable water on earth with the amount consumed by every living thing in one day.

When you get a virus, you get a fever. That's the human body raising its core temperature to kill the virus. Planet Earth works the same way: Global warming is the fever, mankind is the virus. We're making our planet sick. The only option is a culling...

It's the Communists...

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
If a butterfly flaps its wings in Japan, will it cause a hurricane in Florida?

You may scoff now, but wait until the many eggs of the great "Mothra" hatch out! The wings of a thousand super-moths will once again resurrect "the divine wind" or kami-kazi which will eliminate that overgrown sandbar you call Florida.

Tires!
Where does all the rubber that wears off of everyone's tires go?!? I never thought that someone might be smokin it!

I typed out a bunch of hyperbole, and then scrapped it.

Here's my modified post -- There are a lot of moving parts.

One thing that is maybe worth noting, they guy that got really wealthy from the big short back in 2008 (when everyone else thought he was crazy and nothing bad could happen to the housing market) is now heavily invested in water related companies.

This is super simple… The water went into the lake.

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Originally posted by Dzozer:
Where does all the rubber that wears off of everyone's tires go?!? I never thought that someone might be smokin it!

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Yet even though the ice caps are melting and releasing frozen water to liquid form, we have drought around the country.

Believe it or not, melting ice caps can theoretically increase drought conditions. Global weather patterns are driven by very complex factors, and it's not just a matter or melting ice makes more liquid water available (which after all becomes seawater).

A recent study from the Bay Area suggests that global warming and melting ice caps may actually worsen the current drought conditions in California, and may have already done so.

Melting Ice Could Cause More California Droughts

I dunno, internet?

Cow farts

One toke over the line Sweet Jesus
One toke over the line

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Originally posted by Patriot:
It’s in people…

You go from a few cavemen roaming around to 7.8 billion.

I don't know about you, but I recycle a littel every day. I think most people are the same.

Think about Mars, it was formed about the same time as Earth, and should have about the same amount of water (proportional to its size). Where are the oceans? Scientist speculate that it is locked underground in huge frozen reservoirs. The SciFi series of novels Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars explores this possibility.

There are vast stores of water underground on Earth, any oil driller will tell you that they have to get through a lot of water-bearing strata before they hit oil. Most of it is way too salty for human use, but it works for fracking.

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Originally posted by chbibc:
I dunno, internet?

True. It must take a lot of water to lubricate and cool all that high speed internet. Friction is the enemy of speed.

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Originally posted by Patriot:
It’s in people…

We are just ugly bags of mostly water.

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Originally posted by Dzozer:
Tires!
Where does all the rubber that wears off of everyone's tires go?!? I never thought that someone might be smokin it!

Actually .... it becomes tiny particles which is now believed to be highly toxic to humans. We breathe it in whenever we drive or are close to busy roads. Seriously, it might be more dangerous than vehicle exhaust fumes.

And ... the heavier the vehicle the more rubber wears off the tires. A heavier car, such as one laden with tons of batteries, would thus be more hazardous to living things than a lighter car, such as one with a small gasoline engine.

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Originally posted by Patriot:
It’s in people…

You go from a few cavemen roaming around to 7.8 billion.

This is true but at the same time, we had billions more JUICY ASS trees and Dinosaurs. It must be something else.

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Originally posted by TRIO:
This article and pictures are interesting...

How big would a sphere of all Earth's water be?
https://earthsky.org/earth/if-...how-big-would-it-be/

This sure is interesting! I'd never have believed it! In fact, it's really hard to believe!

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Originally posted by ggile:
I have often wondered what the comparison would be to the volume of all palatable water on earth with the amount consumed by every living thing in one day.

That's actually something pretty interesting to think about. I'd like to know both that and freshwater percentage usage/recycling happening every day. I wonder how long it takes to turnover all the drinking/freshwater on the planet? Days, weeks, years, decades?