What If Earth Was Half Land and Half Water?

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Imagine Earth with an even 50/50 split between continents and oceans. Our planet covered half by land half by water. How would this change the planet as you know it? What new kinds of vacations could this make possible for you? And what does the color of your pee have to do with this?
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00:00 What If Earth Was Half Land and Half Water?
00:38 Importance of water
01:20 Balancing the land and water
02:32 What would it look like?
03:25 Consequences
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@WhatIfScienceShow Год назад

@ReelLpk Год назад

2nd

@mohammedmiah1348 Год назад

What if the earth was flat?

@MsGuineaPiggy69 Год назад

What if a vampire star entered our solar system

@pranaykanojia8074 Год назад

Correct your statement that half is water and half is land NO! There is 71%of water and remaining is Land

@JohnRicks2014Filipinoo Год назад

5TH COMMENT

@_Ambition124 Год назад

What if the earth spun north to south instead of east to west ?

@tankopop1 Год назад

I WAS ASKING FOR THAT THANKS FOR REMINDING ME

@Aaadapro Год назад

Well then no day night cycle

@Luke_-_ Год назад

I’m not a genius but I think human life wouldn’t be able to survive and it could cause catastrophic events but that’s for another……what if?

@Asitiseveryday Год назад

Uranus will send copy right strike vmro

@AnupSingh-kw3ww Год назад

You mean rotating the axis of earth by 90 degrees

@andrew2945 Год назад

Imagine how scary the water side would be

@HazeTheGoober Год назад

As scary as the Pacific

@m2-084 Год назад

Subnautica

@ronnana694 Год назад

Going to the middle of the ocean bruh

@mlbbedits8 Год назад

Why would it be

@darksider1234 Год назад

@@mlbbedits8 that's my question too

@WhatIfScienceShow Год назад

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@EsperRanger Год назад

I was hoping they would mention something about the possibility of the Earth's rotational balance/wobble changing with solid land all on one side and fluids on the other side.

@liberatedentrepreneur149 Год назад

That's just stupid

@angelnunyabeezwax3348 Год назад

@@liberatedentrepreneur149 but isn't land heavier than water?

@rnebabyduke2134 Год назад

@@angelnunyabeezwax3348 Denser

@blumoogle2901 Год назад

The water is barely 20km deep in the worst case, the difference in mass between the two sides would be negligably tiny in comparison to the total mass, and it's effects would take geological timescales to make a difference on its rotation.

@randomstuff7668 Год назад

@@angelnunyabeezwax3348 you forget the part where there's no gravity in space itself to wobble the earth

@krishnabdas9064 Год назад

Imagine how good it would've been if every creator was as good as What If. 🙌🏻

@eyesofscience5111 Год назад

Arre Bangali babu

@boxerdo8810 Год назад

Riddle

@WhatIfScienceShow Год назад

We are very thankful for your comment!

@randomguy-gb9ge Год назад

@@eyesofscience5111 YOOOOOOO WE BENGALI DUDE!!1!1!!

@krishnabdas9064 Год назад

@@randomguy-gb9ge you too?! Damn-

@hiit8720 Год назад

I just like this guy’s enthusiasm. Especially the outro “well, that’s a story, for another, what if”

@Avaitor_YT Год назад

I love how you're raging, so anti enthusiastic, oh, and by the way, pick up a burger for me.

@hiit8720 Год назад

@@Avaitor_YT wth?

@Avaitor_YT Год назад

@@hiit8720, I got banned for making one of these jokes lol.

@mohsinsafy3587 Год назад

You always put so much effort in each video making it so interesting together with the video explanations to display what typically would happen In a specific scenario.... keep up the good content

@brujo_millonario Год назад

Most of the cities would be coastal or near rivers. The center of that one big continent would be a desert. I think the video is mixing that view of that half land, half water planet with what would happen if our planet would be 50% ocean covered instead of 76%.

@youthoughtaboutit6946 Год назад

I think that concept is what most people mean when they ask the half-half question

@sleazy_voiceovers Год назад

you know we can read the title right

@goldenwolf90 Год назад

I concur, the title is misleading. I was picturing an even amount of land to water.”Land” being layers of soil and rock developed above water, which would enable it to have different topology creating perhaps new mountains and sources of fresh water. Very click baity

@denimgubantes5454 Год назад

Just imagine how perfectly fine tuned everything from the exceedingly vast universe, to our own planet and even up to the smallest structure of the human eye only proves that there is an intelligent designer behind all of these.

@denzelklarenaar5883 Год назад

If the universe is infinite, everything under the laws of physics could be possible. That means we’re just the 1 in quadrillions of random combinations

@denimgubantes5454 Год назад

@@denzelklarenaar5883 but it isn't. The expansion of the universe and the age of the universe tells that the universe had a beginning

@denzelklarenaar5883 Год назад

@@denimgubantes5454 but the fact that it had a beginning doesn’t prove there was an intelligence behind it, the intelligence also then should’ve been created. It’s not like in science we know everything, we try but people are blind from seeing that we just know almost absolutely nothing.

@denimgubantes5454 Год назад

@@denzelklarenaar5883 given that the universe had a beginning it means that the creator of the universe has to be outside of the universe meaning time space and matter therefore must be infinite. The universe existed by contingency and in order to create something there must be a being who existed by necessity. The creator of the universe must be timeless, spaceless, immaterial, powerful and personal. If a creator is timeless does he have a beginning?

@KingstonTiger Год назад

@@denimgubantes5454 Sure he could have but not by human standards. Our known physics right now is not absolute either and no scientist would claim it so too. We are just too insignificant and time limited species to think about our so called creater and look deeper into him( don't bring religious crap into this). The only thing we could do is move on with our limited resources and test our limits and possibly breakthrough it to advance into next civilization.

@KnowledgeCat 7 месяцев назад

Your dedication in making each video so engaging is incredible! Love how you bring scenarios to life with clear explanations. Thanks for the fantastic content!

@ahmadsantoso9712 Месяц назад

Then give the guy a big bag of popcorn.

@QuirkyThings1 Год назад

Never fails to deliver pure quality infotainment!! Love you❤ suggestion: what if there were no poor people?

@WhatIfScienceShow Год назад

Thank you for sharing your idea with us. We appreciate your support! Something similar can be found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SIhwVysyi6I.html

@van7915 Год назад

We wouldn’t have capitalism

@randomcontent853 Год назад

@@van7915 true

@jaslyne3509 Год назад

So interesting, thanks for telling us!

@WhatIfScienceShow Год назад

Thanks for watching, stay tuned for more fun content to come!

@flamegamer3424 Год назад

These What If videos teach me a lot.

@l.p4251 Год назад

The what if videos are the reason why earth is so perfect

@LopianBacon Год назад

Love your videos What if i'm watching you since you had 3.9 M subs!!! Keep up the good work!

@anonymous_alien Год назад

i can't even imagine who would solve my curiosity if "what if" wasn't there....happy to be a part of this great community 💫

@Jiuge2004 Год назад

Suggested idea: What happens if the atmosphere in The Earth has composed with only Oxygen gas?

@WhatIfScienceShow Год назад

Here you go: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7nePHlbtSis.html

@Jiuge2004 Год назад

@@WhatIfScienceShow Thanks

@hcsjiren3871 Год назад

we'd die

@ahmadsantoso9712 Месяц назад

Then the earth's atmosphere is 100% oxygen.

@tofunwatoyinbo Год назад

Beautiful channel. Love your videos guys. ❤️

@reymartmacanang8330 Год назад

What if all landmasses fused together into one long landmass that circles the Earth (like a ring of land)? What if the ring is on the Equator? or Perpendicular to the equator (like in the longitudes) or if it is diagonally oriented?

@loading4354 Год назад

*Landline*

@WhatIfScienceShow Год назад

Interesting thought. Thank you for sharing your idea with us.

@blitzgaming5827 Год назад

All lands is in tropical zone

@mwbgaming28 Год назад

@@blitzgaming5827 sounds like hell on earth, I hate the tropics, the power bill alone would be insane Better if the landmass was in a polar oriented ring, then everyone can live at whatever latitude they want

@nightterrors2976 Год назад

Well that's pretty much impossible because all current continents will just fuse into one supercontinent

@randomguy-gb9ge Год назад

Awesome video as always!

@WhatIfScienceShow Год назад

Thank you for your support! 🙂

@Avaitor_YT Год назад

Ugly face as always!

@toonasag Год назад

Watching What if after quite a while, still fun 🙌

@sophustranquillitastv4468 Год назад

I think you should think of this scenario as if there're half land and half ocean in the first place, not becoming that scenario from current state.

@boringallthetime7593 Год назад

That what i want to say 👍

@toantruonghuu2833 Год назад

Life might not be possible, trees would barely exists either since the vast lanscape and scarity of water will not allow plants to flourish

@nishitdoshi995 9 месяцев назад

It’s amazing, How each and every small feature of our planet plays a crucial role in existence of life on the earth. What are the odds of all these factors coexisting to create life?

@kimbratton9620 Год назад

Sounds like an interesting topic!😃

@Avaitor_YT Год назад

Sounds like you're A murderer! 😃

@xiao482 Год назад

Watching all these videos about "what if Earth" keeps on making me realize that Earth is indeed fascinating.

@b0r3deditzstuff31 Год назад

Alternative title: what if the earth was divided more than america

@thedeterrentforlife Год назад

Literally wow What the greatest contents you make

@ahmadsantoso9712 Месяц назад

jaw-dropping

@noeltojo5125 Год назад

Thanos : Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

@repentnowjesusiscomingsoon7356 Год назад

Philippians 4:6 ✝️Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.✝️

@ghetto_samurai2157 Год назад

Great video as always

@bryanbryan2968 9 месяцев назад

It has been thought that most earth-like planets found in the habitable zone will be about half land half sea. Also, there is a suggestion based upon the makeup of the moons Ganymede and Callisto, that some watery seas may be hundreds of miles deep. There will probably be mostly water and mostly land worlds, but perhaps not as often as the happy medium.

@ItsCyclonic Год назад

What if Earth had a retrograde orbit around the Sun? (Not rotating backwards, but orbiting the Sun in the backwards direction)

@Saedris Год назад

Nothing would really change except for wind direction and sunrises/sunsets

@intelchip_x86 Год назад

we would probably get mixed up with time and direction, but im sure we could get it together within a few months, if not years

@ahmadsantoso9712 Месяц назад

It would be like you're going around a big lamp, but by walking backwards.

@Dilllonm Год назад

I can imagine going much more than 1000 miles from each coast would be very harsh conditions not much living

@GaelLazerYT Год назад

thanks for an other what if video i need to watch more of these speacialy natural desasters like tornado and earth quake

@MaddyOverture Год назад

Thanos saying 'Perfectly balanced as all things should be' probably didn't mean this....

@Avaitor_YT Год назад

Then why the hell are you alive? also, SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN, SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!!!

@crocs3534 Год назад

Chile will have every country landlocked

@idk-6816 Год назад

You got me even more questions now (: So I hope you can answer them to

@bread_demon Год назад

I'll watch the video later today after I get off of school

@SolitairePlayerX46 Год назад

What if the planets in the Solar System were in reverse order?

@benedictcorpuz5582 Год назад

Pluto, if you counted it would get very hot Neptune might evaporate Uranus might ignite but might still be a gas giant for a few millenia or just be smaller Saturn might lose its rings faster Jupiter would stay the same if you counted pluto Mars would be even colder Earth would die off and become a desolate place Like pluto but kinda warmer Venus, from being a hot place, to a cold state But with the carbon dioxide it could make frozen lakes Mercury, now being in Pluto's place would be like pluto (this is what I think, I didn't do research just wanted to guess)

@Ilicia_08 Год назад

Humans wouldn’t be on earth. It would be way too far from the sun. We’re able to live on this planet because of its perfect placement.

@thealchemist7838 Год назад

I haven't seen the video but i m sure it'll be amazing. Suggestion for next video : WHAT IF saturn was replaced with J1407B ?

@FREECOOKIESYT Год назад

What is J1407B?

@alenlastimosa7069 Год назад

@@FREECOOKIESYT basically it’s an exoplanet with way more rings than saturn

@UniformGem2 Год назад

I'm pretty sure the massive rings would disrupt other planets. The rings could be swallowed by jupiter and may extend as far as uranus. They would also be a big magnet for asteroids

@primus6677 5 месяцев назад

I think this could be a good plot for a movie or TV show, where first off everything is normal but then all of a sudden the sea levels start to drop causing the world to be half land and half sea. It'd be very interesting to see how life adapts to this new environment

@Omisola-Bosede Год назад

Too Too Good I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!

@prshantmalodia Год назад

Feels like I would pass my geography exam

@idk-6816 Год назад

LMAOO

@catatestrophe7499 Год назад

What if we knew we were all alone in space?

@deetay450 9 месяцев назад

It seems like earth is just enough amount of everything to sustain life and it amazes me.

@HtetKyawKhant143 Год назад

best youtube channel i have ever seen.

@normaluser84 Год назад

0:24 unspeakable

@Kurayamiblack Год назад

*sees thumbnail* Finally, a video about what would happen if Rayquaza didn't stop Grouding and Kyogre

@Jr_Scientist Год назад

🔥🔥🔥 These fires came while listening 🎧

@amaros2118 Год назад

I don't believe there are some people believe that the earth is flat!

@skillethead6968 Год назад

What if Earth had large island archipelago's instead of large inter connected continents.

@liberatedentrepreneur149 Год назад

That would be awesome. Every family would have an island

@skillethead6968 Год назад

@@liberatedentrepreneur149 Large island chains and groups with the largest islands being like Indonesia, Japan, U.K., Madagascar, New Zealand, Caribean, and with the absolute largest islands being like sub continents like Greenland and India if it were separate from the rest of Asia. I wonder what that would mean for global ocean currents.

@liberatedentrepreneur149 Год назад

@@skillethead6968 Depending on how far apart the islands are, and if there's large swaths of water between archipelagos, like our current oceans, could and would most likely have vastly different ocean currents. That's my guess.

@skillethead6968 Год назад

@@liberatedentrepreneur149 With ocean currents, I've wondered how it might be for Earth if for example the continent of Africa was disconnected from the Middle East and positioned way further south thus enlarging the Mediterranean and red Sea. Bring it down where the -45 line of latitude would go across South Africa instead of -30 latitude thus having it be roughly where Maine, southern France and northern italy would be in the northern hemisphere. Also disconnect Columbia and Panama from each other and move South America where Brazil's eastern most shore Bulge would touch the -30 line of longitude, thus having a wide gap connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans down in the tropics.

@eddyram4932 9 месяцев назад

Water is needed for life on planet earth, but not necessarily for life, there might well be organisms in the universe that evolved without water.

@ELRAUL-ANIMATED Год назад

When Pangaea decides to come back

@i_saidmeow2469 Год назад

Tehnically talking, Earth is 100% land because there's land underwater

@ivanr7209 Год назад

You thought you did something huh? Stfu

@gikgik4254 Год назад

@@ivanr7209 go touch grass kid. U like ur own comments n ur pages u follow scream that you curse at ur mom for more ketchup on ur dinosaur nuggets

@marfe8814 Год назад

Thank you Lord for the perfect world😊

@marfe8814 Год назад

@Curiosity yes it is

@mrmegat8926 Год назад

thanks to Allah

@ohok97 10 месяцев назад

🤓

@ohok97 10 месяцев назад

@@mrmegat8926🤓🤓

@jeremyadcox6507 Год назад

Well with pangea a lot of the interior was desert so you'd probably have to deal with that if you wanted to travel the continent.

@fahimredwan Год назад

Love what if videos

@sreach93 Год назад

Hardly an episode goes by without slipping in the old global warming. Give it up, the Oceans are not rising, the scare is over !

@HI-ej8rl Год назад

Title : What if Earth was half land and half water 0:01 What if Earth was half land and half water 0:38 important of Water 💧 1:20 Balancing the land and Water 2:32 What it would be look like 3:25 Consequences

@Darth.Caedus Год назад

Definitely the home/office properties by the water would be hella expensive

@iboroprecious4789 Год назад

What if is a constant reminder of the delicate balance our planet sits on. One slight modification and everything is overboard.

@Ancel316 3 месяца назад

How would the world be IF we all followed Jesus?

@TofuTonite Месяц назад

The world would be more corrupt

@Ancel316 Месяц назад

@@TofuTonite how so? If you don't mind me asking.

@PraviLukijanJC Месяц назад

It would not be highly unintelligent person manipulated by the Jews to be in the money and greed system without happiness@@TofuTonite?

@kristopher3623 Месяц назад

The world would be almost perfect thanks to the global unificación of man and the guidance of the lord

@eduardocarranza4333 Месяц назад

@Ancel316 I suppose other religions? I'm not a follower of Jesus but this comment also confused me just as equally as you.

@CJL-uu8pm Год назад

dunno why, as soon I read the title I started to laugh so hard🤣

@TheNov11979 Год назад

Certainly don’t want this to happen. Nice video.

@RaulGonzalez-uf6vk Год назад

If this happened the beaches would have to be by appointment. They'd be too over crowded

@Aripentagon Год назад

Bro never runs out of ideas

@Naz_Forever-_- 5 месяцев назад

The video of the guy in the giant toilet wasn't "weird Ryan" whoever that is but it's actually unspeakable/Nathan

@pain4634 Год назад

Danmmm i love this new update

@1macful 6 месяцев назад

"What If" you got it all wrong with this one!

@Smartest_ Год назад

If Earth were half land and half water, it would likely have a significant impact on the planet's climate and ecosystems. The distribution of water and land affects weather patterns and ocean currents, which play a major role in regulating temperature and precipitation. Additionally, the proportion of land and water also determines the types of plants and animals that can survive in different regions. Without land to support terrestrial life, the diversity of species would likely be greatly reduced. Additionally, it would be difficult for human civilization to sustain itself if the majority of the planet's surface was covered in water.

@yummyumtum Год назад

Dang! Cameraman was attacked! 3:06

@widebirb3744 Год назад

random thing: at 3:59 What If took the clip from “OUR PLANET” in nextflix and the episode name is waking giants

@vanam_ Год назад

I would have liked to go to the point on the side of earth where there is no land would be cool adventure

@FREECOOKIESYT Год назад

That would be... COOL!

@hidingly 6 месяцев назад

everyone would die, the earth would collapse, the rotational balance would be off, the earth plummets into the sun and evaporates everything on it, thanks for the information

@thomaswwwiegand 9 месяцев назад

I direct think about how the half is set. Half like daylight change, or just one pole sided. If we would be able to change this, guess stripes of lang around the rotation - avoiding lang masses along the dry zones (Hadley) to avoid desserts. Fun thoughs yes ...

@johncalma173 Год назад

That's another what if!

@alparslankorkmaz2964 Год назад

Nice video.

@thomasselbee3497 Год назад

wow i had no clue they added a 5th ocean called the antartic lol I was like wtf there's 4 oceans but I guess they changed that

@darthfishimouse Месяц назад

Before I start this. I’m guessing there would definitely be a huge dessert in the center

@justusxzerotwo7362 Год назад

Pls do more astronomy vids

@VictoryOnYouTube Год назад

I think this would a be epic thing to encounter. Not the bad encounters like climate change and stuff. On the other side of the world where there’s nothing but land would be more like an infinite Minecraft flat plane. People would struggle with peeing regularly. The only chance you’re getting with water is rain climates. People will have to go outside and collect fresh rain and the world was grow cause of water and sunlight from the sky.