Yo I have a question

[AsifTheManRahman]

Does water make up 75 or 80% of the earth?

[Carte Blanche]

I thought it's 70%.

[Carte Blanche]

Okay, checked it with a credible site.
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What percentage of the world's surface is water? What percentage of this water is salt water, fresh water and frozen water?

70% of the Earth's surface is water. Of this 70%, 98% is salt water, leaving 2% as fresh water. Of the 2% that is fresh, about 90% is frozen. This frozen water is locked up in the Antarctic ice sheets and glaciers on the Alps, etc.

SOURCE

[Edited on 12-5-2004 by Carte Blanche : source]

[Navarene]

Prithibir teen bhag jol ar ek bhag mati, now compute the stat

[reverse_swing]

well said Navarene Bhai

[Zunaid]

neither

If you meant "What percentage of the world's surface is water?" then the answer can be found here

On the other hand, if you wanted to find out what percentage of total mass of the earth is H20, the answer is more difficult to get. We can only infer. For example the inner and outer core which contributes a significant part of the earth's mass is iron-nickel and iron(?) respectively.

The four layers of the earth as defined by geologists are:

1. Crust
2. Mantle: Contributes 70% of earths mass
3. Outer core
4. Inner core

Single biggest composition is probably iron: 35%. Others Oxygen (30%), Silicon(15%) etc.

[Carte Blanche]

The 2nd part of your post was very interesting Dr Z. I think only mba can answer that.

[Navarene]

awww Carte, you still been missing mba?? okie better u2u suds, since she/he was advocating for him(a friendly banter)

[Carte Blanche]

Of course I do. I'm sure everyone misses him Who is suds? Mba's alter-ego?

[AsifTheManRahman]

Wow...I never expected so many replies. Thanks people. I just needed it to know because I was writing an essay for my bro (who goes to grade 7). I just sent it to him, and came to see that my not so significant post had earned 8 replies already...

Anyways, I put "more than three quarters" on that essay; the exact figures were not very important i guess. It was a water pollution essay where i just wanted to put this stat in.

[Zunaid]

why write his essay for him? let him sink or swim, pun intended. only way for him to learn.

[Carte Blanche]

Sink or drown?

[rafiq]

man don't write your bro's essay for him - he's in 7th grade, tell him to get a life and write his own essay!

[suds]

Originally posted by Carte Blanche
Of course I do. I'm sure everyone misses him Who is suds? Mba's alter-ego?

tongue in chick?

[abhs]

Originally posted by Navarene
Prithibir teen bhag jol ar ek bhag mati, now compute the stat

Remided me the verses of the poem-

Tin vag graisase, ek vag baki
sura nei patro hate kapitese saki

[Arnab]

Originally posted by suds

tongue in chick?

Blasphemy! Ban him! Where are the feminists?

[suds]

Originally posted by Arnab

Blasphemy! Ban him! Where are the feminists?

oops: mba-syndrome (or freud?) prevails

[Arnab]

I would go with the freudian slip.

[suds]

Originally posted by Arnab
I would go with the freudian slip.

But, should that ward the fems off?

[Arnab]

I don't think there is any feminist here, other than myself.

[suds]

Originally posted by Arnab
I don't think there is any feminist here, other than myself.

'-ist's are believers, is that always true?

[Arnab]

Yeah, for example, scient-ists.

Gramatically,

"-ist" is a Noun-forming suffix, meaning "a person who".

[Edited on 13-5-2004 by Arnab]

[suds]

Originally posted by Arnab
Yeah, for example, scient-ists.

I was actually referring to all the 'ist's originating from some 'ism'

[Arnab]

Ok, how about nihilists? Do nihilists believe in nihilism?

[suds]

Originally posted by Arnab
Yeah, for example, scient-ists.

Gramatically,

"-ist" is a Noun-forming suffix, meaning "a person who".

[Edited on 13-5-2004 by Arnab]

I guess that is being too rudimentary. Chronology of word usage may endorse semantic versatility in breaking down