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What would happen if the sea suddenly disappeared? How long can we humans last?

What would happen if the sea suddenly disappeared

By suzanne darlenePublished 2 years ago 6 min read

The total area of ​​our planet's oceans is about 361 million square kilometers, or about 71 percent of the Earth's surface area. The ice spring is about 4 kilometers deep, and the ocean contains 1.37 billion cubic kilometers of water, accounting for more than 97% of the total water on the earth. It plays an extremely important role in the evolution of life on our planet.

So what would happen if the oceans suddenly disappeared from Earth?

When the ocean suddenly disappears, residents of coastal cities are the first to notice that the original location of the ocean has become an incredible white coast, with rock formations even hundreds of meters deep in many places. Large cargo ships and other ships will also fall to the bottom of the sea in an instant, and the violent impact will cause all kinds of ships to be smashed into pieces, which is terrible.

The seabed where the sun was not seen in those days will also become unobstructed. All kinds of sea creatures that we have never seen before will show their true colors, and many sea creatures will start to die one after another, and then emit a sinister smell of rancidity and heart.

A vacuum area of ​​1.332 billion cubic kilometers will also be formed on our earth in an instant. At that time, the air on the earth will rush to these areas within a minute. At that time, a global distinction will be formed, giving our production serious impact on life.

With the continuous influx of air, the atmosphere will become extremely thin, and because 70% of the oxygen on our earth is provided by seaweed, and now these plants are extinct, the oxygen on our earth will also be in short supply, All people and animals suffer from altitude sickness, and people on the plateau are equivalent to being near Mount Everest and will die to the west.

The asthenosphere on the ocean surface will also lose the weight of the seawater, and a large amount of volcanic magma will erupt instantly, which means that more than half of the area on the earth will have a volcanic eruption, and the ocean will completely turn into a sea of ​​fire. And since the birth of marine life three or four billion years ago, the seabed has already begun to accumulate the debris and metabolic products of marine life.

So now there is a lot of methane in the silt at the bottom of the ocean. If the water suddenly disappears, the methane deposited on the seafloor will enter the atmosphere. When the methane enters the atmosphere and encounters magma of thousands of degrees, there will be a violent explosion. , and because of the loss of the pressure of the sea water, the geotechnical skills of the sea floor also began to rebound, squeezing the continental plates.

Violent earthquakes will be established all over the world. If the ocean suddenly disappears, then 97% of the water resources on our earth will also disappear. Although the water in the ocean cannot be directly drunk, it is the main source of water vapor. source, and only by producing a large amount of water vapour can rainfall form and provide moist air for people.

These rivers, lakes and glaciers on our earth are just a drop in the bucket for human needs, and they are not enough to be fully circulated in nature, and due to the sudden drop in the earth's temperature, the 3% of the raw water will also be caused by Cooling can only exist in the form of frost.

In about two weeks we won't see any kind of precipitation anymore, the horrific drought will spread to Asia, Africa and Amazon, rainforests and more, almost all the plants on earth will die, only the rivers and lakes will be left. All will evaporate and disappear quickly, and the fresh water of the glaciers in the north and south poles has become the only way out for human beings.

In addition, since the plants become flammable after they die, if there is a fire.

This will be the largest fire in our human history, and at this time we have already lost the idea of ​​​​fighting the fire, so this continuous burning fire will release trillions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and carbon dioxide belongs to the greenhouse. Gas, so this will be the heat from the sun, almost all staying on the surface of the earth, which will cause the global temperature to rise rapidly, and the average global temperature will rise by about 20 to 30 degrees Celsius.

The tight glacier will also evaporate quickly due to the high temperature. Although this will form a few days of rain, this level of precipitation will not be able to withstand the fire at all, and all the surface plants will eventually be ruthlessly swallowed up, and on the earth The remaining water resources can only exist in the atmosphere in the form of water vapor.

In addition, those continuously erupting volcanoes emit about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. When they still exist, these carbon dioxide will dissolve in seawater and combine with minerals to form solid limestone that sinks to the bottom of the sea. , and phytoplankton can also use the carbon dioxide dissolved in the water to complete photosynthesis and release oxygen, but once the plants disappear, these carbon dioxide will exist directly in the atmosphere, and the residual oxygen will be combined with the gas from the volcanic eruption, gradually disappeared into the ocean.

After disappearing for a year, there will be no more oxygen on the earth. On the contrary, the content of carbon dioxide will reach more than 90%, and the table will increase by 92 times, and the temperature will soar to more than 100 degrees Celsius, more than 99% of the world's All creatures will become extinct, and only some bacteria and microorganisms can barely survive, and the earth will lose its original blue color and become a gray and lifeless planet, and eventually completely lose the qualification to breed life.

Earth may look more like Mars and Venus today in a few years. Oceans are not only vital to the evolution of life, but the most powerful thermostat on Earth in Taian City, which absorbs most of the radiation from the sun The heat is distributed evenly in every corner of the earth by the action of ocean currents to ensure that the global temperature is not too disparate. It can be said that without the existence of oceans, life on our earth would not be possible. Nowadays, the destruction of the ocean by us humans is becoming more and more serious. Once the marine ecosystem completely collapses, we humans will suffer from the consequences and will not last long. Therefore, for the future of human beings, we must protect the fragile ocean.

Earth may look more like Mars and Venus today in a few years. Oceans are not only vital to the evolution of life, but the most powerful thermostat on Earth in Taian City, which absorbs most of the radiation from the sun The heat is distributed evenly in every corner of the earth by the action of ocean currents to ensure that the global temperature is not too disparate. It can be said that without the existence of oceans, life on our earth would not be possible.

Nowadays, the destruction of the ocean by us humans is becoming more and more serious. Once the marine ecosystem completely collapses, we humans will suffer from the consequences and will not last long. Therefore, for the future of human beings, we must protect the fragile ocean.

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