What If We Drained the Oceans?

What if we found the way to drain all the Earth's oceans through some mysterious portal at the bottom of the Mariana Trench? How long would it take? Years? Centuries? Millennia? Would there be any life left on Earth when the pumping was over? What if it happened overnight?

Oceanic water makes up 70% of the Earth’s surface. If we opened a portal about the size of a basketball court, it would take us hundreds of thousands of years to pump out the oceans. They hold over a billion cubic km (321 million cubic miles) of water. But what if we had a pump powerful enough to drain all the oceans in a minute? What would happen then?

[natheajoyceflores]

How to have panic attack

Step 1: just sit down
Step 2: watch what if videos

[recitation]

Please do this.
What if we throw water the size of jupiter at the sun?

[R_G]

imagine being on a boat above the Mariana trench when the water suddenly disappears

[dojie]

Then we might be able to find Kim's earrings 💀💀💀

[CraftyZanTub]

You forgot one thing: What about that smell! The smell of trillions of rotting fish and sea mammals would be 3...2...1... GAG!

[janice]

I wish someone needed me as much as we need the ocean 😂

[shamrockwhite]

Dam! This channel makes me appreciate everything about life

[jozmit]

How bout we take ALL THE PLASTIC FROM THE OCEAN

[SPak-rtgb]

The earth would smell like dead fish and we would find a lot of missing things.

[dardoura]

What if I stopped taking my phone with me to take a dump?

[FinleyMcB]

‘Why not enjoy a seaside vacation while you can?’
- kinda sounds like you’re expecting this to happen

[foreveramy]

imagine just waking up to thousands of fish flopping around

[kiuga]

I always wanted to see what the landscape and the depth of the sea land would look like without water, imagining looking down at the Mariana Trench...

[andreafangman]

Oceans drained: people who’s been looking for lost city of alantas 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃😆😆😆

[HBDiniz]

WATER we waiting for? SEA how life really depends on the ocean

[marcoantoniogubatan]

Me: *Casually minding my own thing*

Youtube recommendations: So you wanna know what happens when all the oceans are gone?

[NoName-lwjn]

Earth really is special! We gotta t *r* easure it!

Edit: I can't type

[luziaflone]

Thank you God for making us and earth just the way they are

[renmakesthings]

That “while you can” was so ominous, what are you planning?

[yenql]

*Go ahead and enjoy the sea waters while you can.*


*We are officially draining the oceans.*