What if the water came up from the bath tub drain and never stopped?

[NotHardUp1]

While watching videos and reading articles about geology, I found this one about the abundance of water deep below the aquifers we often consider.

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...nd-1000km-down-a-third-of-way-to-earths-core/

There was a particularly arresting statement in the second paragraph of the article.

“If it wasn’t down there, we would all be submerged,” says Steve Jacobsen at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, whose team made the discovery. “This implies a bigger reservoir of water on the planet than previously thought.”

And the water is much deeper than previously thought, estimated at 1,000 km down.

We often see science films imagining this or that natural cataclysm, but the notion of a global flood isn't one of them. But what if a tectonic event, or a meteor strike could loose such waters that they could rise? Imagine what it would be to see a steadily rising ocean level that would cover the continents.

Of course, the waters are not gathered in a space or a layer, but trapped in rock in many places, so the return of them isn't plausible via the simple scenario described.

Still, it's intimidating to know that our very life-giving water could easily be the end of all terrestrial life.

 

[luckynumbah7]

I'm reminded of Waterworld

 

[NotHardUp1]

I thought of it too, but it had such bad reviews I never saw it.

In truth, I suspect we are not adapted to survive on a diet without terrestrial foods. We'd likely die out in a generation.

 

[Vannie]

Is this where Poland Springs comes from?

 

[NotHardUp1]

Couldn't be. We can't drill that deep.

Well, come to think of it, natural springs are not drilled.

But it is unlikely any water that deep is working its way to the surface casually.

I wonder how deep hot springs water is based.

 

[Cormac135]

Fascinating stuff.

 

[Alistair]

^^ just watched a YouTube video this morning on the deepest hole drilled. 7.5 miles/12 kilometers deep in Russia.

 

[NotHardUp1]

It boggles the mind to think we have any insight into the crust 500 miles down.

 

[Rickrock]

^^ just watched a YouTube video this morning on the deepest hole drilled. 7.5 miles/12 kilometers deep in Russia.

This gives some perspective to the 1000 kilometers.

 

[mikey3000]

What amazes me is that 95% of the world's oceans remain unexplored.