It's amazing how many words he spends saying "this large body of water is really quite large." I mean: > The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as "140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans," which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this. > That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth…
I'm not satisfied till I see it measured in toilet flushes.
So let's see... 1.335e21 L per ocean, 1.4e14 oceans per space cloud, ~6 L per flush, 1051898.4 flushes per toilet per Gregorian year, ~1.4e9 toilets on Earth.
You could flush all the flush toilets currently installed on Earth, continuously, twice per minute, for 2.1e19 years.
Still too big. That's 1.5 billion times the age of the universe. No one can truly grasp that magnitude. Let's multiply the number of Earths and try to fix the time at the approximate age of the Earth. So, divide by 4.5e9 years... There we go.
You could continually flush all the currently installed flush toilets on Earth twice a minute over the entire history of the planet, on 4.7 billion identical Earths!
Finally! A completely meaningless number that everyone can understand! ~