Or mud, as this stuff otherwise known.
You're going to be hard pressed to out pedantic NASA scientists. They probably spent quite some time deliberating over the term "Ice Deposit" as the most accurate one.
Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
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#13Water behaves very strangely on Mars. http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/2753.htm -- Note the videos.
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#14Lake Superior has enough water to flood all of North and South America to almost one foot.
Was intrigued by this comment so I looked it up. North and South America have a surface area of about 42.55 million sq km or 4.58x10^14 sq ft (1 foot deep water is obviously 4.58x10^14 cubic feet). Lake Superior has a volume of 12,100 cubic km or 4.2x10^14 cubic feet. That's unbelievable!
now do the calculations on lake baikal.
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#15The entire core of Mars is made out of ice. The reactor melts it, and it makes air.
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#16Quick, someone sell the water rights to Nestle for pennies on the dollar and let private industry extract it so that we can avoid paying taxes to get it ourselves and have it sold to us for a premium!
Edit: Sorry, forgot my sarcasm tag
Edit2: Apologies if my humour isn't productive, sometimes I just can't help myself, lol
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#17Lake Superior has enough water to flood all of North and South America to almost one foot.
I read the post title and thought "huh that's all?". Then I read your comment!
Also puts into perspective just how much water there is on earth.
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#18Or mud, as this stuff otherwise known.
you're this smug about an article describing a huge water deposit on mars? I'd hate to get your opinion on something more mundane
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#19Lake Superior has enough water to flood all of North and South America to almost one foot.
I read the post title and thought "huh that's all?". Then I read your comment! Also puts into perspective just how much water there is on earth.
Here is another way to put it into perspective[0]: http://water.usgs.gov/edu/pictures/full-size/global-water-vo...
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was intrigued by this comment so I looked it up. North and South America have a surface area of about 42.55 million sq km or 4.58x10^14 sq ft (1 foot deep water is obviously 4.58x10^14 cubic feet). Lake Superior has a volume of 12,100 cubic km or 4.2x10^14 cubic feet. That's unbelievable!
now do the calculations on lake baikal.
About 8.12x10^14 cubic feet, so about 1.77 feet spread over all of the Americas.