What If Earth Was Half Land and Half Water?

Imagine Earth with an even 50/50 split between continents and oceans. Our planet covered half by land half by water. How would this change the planet as you know it? What new kinds of vacations could this make possible for you? And what does the color of your pee have to do with this?

00:00 What If Earth Was Half Land and Half Water?
00:38 Importance of water
01:20 Balancing the land and water
02:32 What would it look like?
03:25 Consequences

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[_Ambition]

What if the earth spun north to south instead of east to west ?

[andrew]

Imagine how scary the water side would be

[EsperRanger]

I was hoping they would mention something about the possibility of the Earth's rotational balance/wobble changing with solid land all on one side and fluids on the other side.

[mohsinsafy]

You always put so much effort in each video making it so interesting together with the video explanations to display what typically would happen In a specific scenario.... keep up the good content

[QuirkyThings]

Never fails to deliver pure quality infotainment!! Love you❤
suggestion: what if there were no poor people?

[brujo_millonario]

Most of the cities would be coastal or near rivers. The center of that one big continent would be a desert. I think the video is mixing that view of that half land, half water planet with what would happen if our planet would be 50% ocean covered instead of 76%.

[hiit]

I just like this guy’s enthusiasm. Especially the outro “well, that’s a story, for another, what if”

[krishnabdas]

Imagine how good it would've been if every creator was as good as What If. 🙌🏻

[KnowledgeCat]

Your dedication in making each video so engaging is incredible! Love how you bring scenarios to life with clear explanations. Thanks for the fantastic content!

[JiugeINTP]

Suggested idea: What happens if the atmosphere in The Earth has composed with only Oxygen gas?

[denimgubantes]

Just imagine how perfectly fine tuned everything from the exceedingly vast universe, to our own planet and even up to the smallest structure of the human eye only proves that there is an intelligent designer behind all of these.

[jaslyne]

So interesting, thanks for telling us!

[reymartmacanang]

What if all landmasses fused together into one long landmass that circles the Earth (like a ring of land)? What if the ring is on the Equator? or Perpendicular to the equator (like in the longitudes) or if it is diagonally oriented?

[ItsCyclonic]

What if Earth had a retrograde orbit around the Sun? (Not rotating backwards, but orbiting the Sun in the backwards direction)

[anonymous_alien]

i can't even imagine who would solve my curiosity if "what if" wasn't there....happy to be a part of this great community 💫

[sophustranquillitastv]

I think you should think of this scenario as if there're half land and half ocean in the first place, not becoming that scenario from current state.

[Dilllonm]

I can imagine going much more than 1000 miles from each coast would be very harsh conditions not much living

[l.p]

The what if videos are the reason why earth is so perfect

[nishitdoshi]

It’s amazing, How each and every small feature of our planet plays a crucial role in existence of life on the earth. What are the odds of all these factors coexisting to create life?

[primus]

I think this could be a good plot for a movie or TV show, where first off everything is normal but then all of a sudden the sea levels start to drop causing the world to be half land and half sea. It'd be very interesting to see how life adapts to this new environment