I know this is just a meme, but I’ll share something I recently learned since I find it fascinating.
The oceans started out as freshwater! Water evaporated from them, rained down as freshwater and formed into rivers and streams, and the process of flowing picked up trace amounts of salt from the ground and riverbeds. These rivers eventually dumped their ever-so-slightly salty water into the ocean. Then, the tiny tiny tiny bit salty ocean evaporated some pure water out, leaving less water - meaning the remaining water just got a little bit saltier in comparison. This process repeated for millions of years and those tiny increments resulted in the very salty oceans we have now.
Sounds like in the future, people (or whatever intelligent life form is around then) will be like, "did you know the Earth didn't always have a microplastic ocean?"
I, for one, welcome our new microplastic overlords.
So god created a few lakes with drinkable water but he didn't understanding enough about physics to know it would become salty. Got it.
Freshwater oceans didn't playtest well in alpha
Exactly! I almost said something to that effect but decided my comment was getting a little long. God just left figuring out science to all these nerds he created 😂
Nah it’s fish piss bro.
that makes sense, it does have a rather salty taste
In case you're seriously wondering:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/are-the-oceans-getting-saltier
45 million billion tonnes of salt.
Reminds me of when my roommate got really into league of legends
You must have been playing during off hours to get that little salt.
Pretty sure I've seen more on Waifu War threads back on /r/anime lol.
Reminds me of my days mining in EvE
I hate these takes, because they always open with "What would happen if a large volume of matter vanish?!" And yes, removing anything on the scale of "All the salt in all the oceans instantaneously" would be catastrophic entirely on the grounds that any instant movement of enormous mass is going to destabilize natural systems.
But the question that people are looking to answer is "What would the world look like if the Atlantic was a bigger version of Lake Michigan?" Not "what would hitting the oceans with a Star Trek teleporter do?"
Kinda grazes at the edges of this, but doesn't really seek to distinguish what a fully-desalinated ocean system would look like relative to a salty one. It just describes a transitional period in which freshwater life migrates out to the ocean. But it doesn't discuss what a deep-sea fresh water world would look like.
Also, the "eventually the sea would re-salinate" gets us to a more fundamental question "Why is the sea salty to begin with?" And that gives us insight into where salts come from and why they are fundamental to the ocean ecosystem.
God creates Man.
Man creates... Unity.
Oops.
"Skills Issue"The trickster.
My Dad is such a dick.
What kind of car does hotrod Jesus drive?
Jesuzuki
All of them. I've replaced my skills with the hammer with those of the monkeywrench. There is no vehicle known to man or god I can't trick out.
Side note - I see your check engine light is on. You may need a tune-up. Bring it on by the garage @13thFloor and we'll see about a valve and soul lube job.
None, just motocross
Betlehummer?
Humans: aight bet creates way to remove salt from the water checkmate.
Humans: Straps a thruster to a few comets to "deal with global warming"
Edit: why is text between angle brackets just deleting itself?
Fun fact: demons and ghosts can't go on vacation to the sea.
Humans need salt to survive
Is it by chance or intended that god looks like Dicaprio?
How could it be chance he’s literally right there my dude
god works in mysterious ways
Looks like Benicio Del Toro with a fake beard
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