Talk:Evaporation/@comment-25105261-20140627040043

Why so negativistic?

I'm sure SOME people could survive. Sea water is cnstantly filtered into ground water.

Sure most of mankind would die out but come on.

If the sea water actually remaind, just with 5 times higher salt concentration would mean only like 12% of the seawater being changed into salt. Which leaves 85,5% of the earths water reserves intact.

In fact, if you think about it, with all the water gone from the atmosphere, the oceans would start evaporating real damn fast, bringing mankind torrents of rainwater within the next 3 days.

So yes, all the fish and algae would die out and we would stop getting about 80% of the oxygen.

But that wouldn't be immediately noticeable and after that time frame new species of algae would adapt. All in all, the worst is people not being able to drink for a day or two and nuclear plants exploding.

Also, i don't quite get the selection between water that is contained in humans, water that is contained in ones bladder, water that is contained in a leather bladder not in an animal, and water being contained in a water tank. This last thing made me not really like this.

Interesting read nonetheless.