[neilep (OP)]

Dear Earthologists,


As a sheepy I of course know all about earth, I know doggies like to roll around in it and that it's also where grass grows.  I mean, what else is there to know ? That covers it.


Here is The Earth, to scale 1-1.



The Earth true to scale 1-1 cos I said so.


Is Earthy losing water ? Does any of the water in the atmosphere leak into spacey-wacey ?

If so, how much and does it get replenished whenever the ISS people flush the loo ?


whajafink ?

i don't know.....I'm a sheep !!


hugs and shmishes


mwah mwah

neil
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Oh H20 oh H20 !
How high do you go ?

[Halc]

Is Earthy losing water ? Does any of the water in the atmosphere leak into spacey-wacey ?

It does. It's expected to all be gone in about a billion years, so drink up while it's there.

Water jettisoned from ships in space mostly tends not to immediately find its way to Earth for the same reason the thing squirting it out tends not to immediately find its way to Earth. Getting something out of anything but the lowest orbits takes effort.

[neilep (OP)]

Is Earthy losing water ? Does any of the water in the atmosphere leak into spacey-wacey ?

It does. It's expected to all be gone in about a billion years, so drink up while it's there.

Water jettisoned from ships in space mostly tends not to immediately find its way to Earth for the same reason the thing squirting it out tends not to immediately find its way to Earth. Getting something out of anything but the lowest orbits takes effort.

A billion years !.... goes to panic shop water !!!

So, how much water do we lose a day ? do ewe know ?

Thanks Halcy

[Halc]

So, how much water do we lose a day ?

Hard to say. Much of the water simply becomes other things and new water is constantly created (by sheep metabolism for instance). Free oxygen ends up in wood and rocks and whatnot. Free hydrogen leaks to space faster than does water molecules, but about a liter every 3 seconds seems to be the rate at which water leaks directly to space. That's slower than your sheep watering trough tap running at full tilt, but not slower than a kitchen faucet left open.

[Andrewphilip]

New research from the Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics at the University of Oslo (Norway) shows that our planet's deep water cycle is clearly unbalanced: the earth is always "eating away" a little water, hide them deep inside the planet and never return them to the earth. This has to push the earth to millions of years of extreme dehydration.

[Origin]

Dear Earthologists,


As a sheepy I of course know all about earth, I know doggies like to roll around in it and that it's also where grass grows.  I mean, what else is there to know ? That covers it.


Here is The Earth, to scale 1-1.



The Earth true to scale 1-1 cos I said so.


Is Earthy losing water ? Does any of the water in the atmosphere leak into spacey-wacey ?

If so, how much and does it get replenished whenever the ISS people flush the loo ?


whajafink ?

i don't know.....I'm a sheep !!


hugs and shmishes


mwah mwah

neil
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I know this isn't very nice, but I have to ask, why is it that in all of your posts you talk like an idiot?

[Bored chemist]

I know this isn't very nice, but I have to ask, why is it that in all of your posts you talk like an idiot?

Because he's a sheep.
(and sheep are allowed to ask silly questions)

[evan_au]

I know this isn't very nice, but I have to ask, why is it that in all of your posts you talk like an idiot?

When you take the viewpoint of an "outsider" (in this case, a sheep), you can point out humorous aspects of things that we all take for granted (or, perhaps in this case, for granite).

[Rocky6419]

Hi everyone;
             Always remember that water in our whole planet was not ended too early, but the clean water that human needs may be ended if we do not save it.