WHAT IF ON EARTH, LAND SEPERATED WITH WATER

Imagine …………………….our planet being covered half by land and half by water. What new types of vacations could this make possible for you? And what does the color of your pee have to do with this question? %Here's% what would happen if the Earth was half land and half water.

When it comes to making life possible on a planet water is an absolute have that's why we look for alien life on worlds where liquid water could exist when it comes to our own planet. 71% of its surface is covered by water most of that is in our five oceans together they form one global ocean now if you replaced nearly a quarter of our ocean water with land how soon would earth turn into just another lifeless rock in space

Thanks to global warming earth's sea levels are currently rising but if you wanted to balance the planet's land to water ratio you'd see the sea levels absolutely plummet and not just a few meters but around three kilometers earth would look very different the regions around both the north and south poles would be completely dried out and every continent on the planet would expand and not just a little either all this newly emerged territory around the world would be roughly equal to the current surface areas of asia europe africa and north america combined that would be an enormous amount of unused space everything extending off the old coasts would be relatively flat but some of the areas that used to be deep ocean would reveal vast corridors and steep crevasses as you explored this new land you'd discover that the one global ocean would be no more all of the oceans would be separated from each other and all of the continents would be one connected landmass and this would be good news forevolution early humans didn't have any ships or planes we spread across the globe simply by walking venturing away from africa some seventy thousand to one hundred thousand years ago we found our way to europe and asia eventually we were able to cross a land bridge connecting asia to the americas possibly as far back as 20 000 years ago.

With the 50 50 split in place you'd now be able to cover even more ground finally you could take that around the

world trip you've always dreamed ofall on your own two feetbut this shifting balance of water and land wouldn't be all fun and gameswith so much less water covering the

surfaceour ocean currents would be disrupted and this would seriously destabilize the climate currents distribute the heat that's absorbed by the oceans around the globe disrupting them would mean even colder temperatures around the north and south poles while the already hot equatorial regions would get even hotter climate change would speed up tooall because oceans wouldn't be able to

absorb so much carbon dioxide from the air that excess carbon dioxide would blanket the planet and raise temperatures rain levels would also drop off and this

would create dangerous droughts as well as new deserts in many inland areas so while there may be an abundance of new land available large stretches of earth could become uninhabitable plants animals and humans would all need to adapt to being less dependent on water or at least start using it more efficiently water scarcity could result in animals evolving to be smaller with more making the jump to a strictly carnivorous diet and sadly the abundance of life that today's oceans support would struggle to survive and maybe the most surprising consequence that you'd need to get used to is that your pee would likely change forever usually urine is made up of more than 90 B% water but with less water in your daily life yours would become much darker and start to smell like ammonia i mean things could be worse you could drain the oceans of every drop of water they have but that's a storyfor another what if