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Turneyboy
28 days ago
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All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)
Ok I don't mean to be pedanntic but a sphere is just the boundary of a ball. If we are trying to capture volume we should be talking about balls of water.
jgtrosh
28 days ago
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Counter pedant: a ball is indeed what you get when, as in TFA, you put water “in a sphere”
Turneyboy
28 days ago
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I agree. It's a volume of water bounded by a sphere. I'm just being pedantic about the common use of the word in this thread.
I'm also somewhat surprised no one else was being pedantic about this. I expect better from HN :)
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