If 50% of people die, are we going to flood due to masses of water being released back into the environment?

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[–]ruqqer 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, please. Google the amount of water on Earth: 321M cubic miles (or 321e6 where "e6" means 6 zeroes at the end). Convert it to cubic meters: 1.3e18, so 1.3e21 kilograms of water. Take 10 billion (1e10) people at 100kg, you get 1e12 kilograms, or 1e9 times less than the water amount. Or, in the other words, taking the entire mass of the humanity and adding it to the oceans would increase their volume by a whole 0.0000001%. Nope, won't be any noticeable effect at all.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not initially, like no Noah arc shit. But yes, if population was reduced by half, lots of depleted lakes and streams would fill back up.

[–]BISH 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

lots of depleted lakes and streams would fill back up.

Not exactly a flood.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I just went in and tried to figure it out. We have 8 billion people on earth. We’re all 10 gallons of water.

And the world has like 325 miles cubes of water.

So we could figure it out. I don’t have a calculator that does it, And I’m not gonna try.

[–]BISH 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No.

They could lower some of the reservoir levels (minimally), and maybe use fewer water towers.

The impact on water wouldn't be significant enough to raise water tables.

[–]MightyMorphinFaggot[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I was talking about 4 billion people x water mass.

[–]BISH 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If everyone somehow magically turned into 100% liquid water where they stand, then there'd be large puddles all over, but there wouldn't be any flooding.

[–]MightyMorphinFaggot[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We would evaporate and turn into clouds somewhere lol.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wish this was the cause of the recent floods in Australia.

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

no. please stop listening to greta dumb-burg