What is Water Anyway?

1 Water is everywhere—there are 332,500,000 cubic miles of it on the earth’s surface. But less than 1 percent of it is fresh and accessible, even when you include bottled water.
I find it interesting that there is so much water on this planet but less than 1% of it we can drink.


4 Cheers! The new Water Recovery System on the International Space Station recycles 93 percent of astronauts’ perspiration and urine, turning it back into drinking water.
I never knew that you could recycle sweat and urine, no wonder they do it in space so they don't have to send shuttles all the time with water for them

8 You can make your own water by mixing hydrogen and oxygen in a container and adding a spark. Unfortunately, that is the formula that helped destroy the Hindenburg.
If we could Master this without blowing the place up we would have more water than we know what to do with.

14 Although many doctors tell patients to drink eight glasses of water a day, there is no scientific evidence to support this advice. Yeah its Kinda of similar to you have to eat an apple a day.

20 Recent evidence suggests that when the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago, comets had liquid cores. If so, life may have started in a comet. If that is true life could be on other planets because comets hit them.



1. About 800,000 water wells are drilled each year in the United States for domestic, farming, commercial, and water testing purposes.
http://www.gcwsa.com/Facts%20About%20Water.htm



2. Water is the only substance found naturally in three forms: solid, liquid, and gas. http://www.mamashealth.com/water/waterfacts.asp

3. There is the same amount of water on earth as there was when the earth was formed.
http://www.lenntech.com/water-trivia-facts.htm#ixzz0yrQQaZcf


4. Did you know that you could get drunk on water? Well, drinking too much water causes the sodium levels in the bloodstream to dilute causing imbalance of water in your brain. This is called ‘water intoxication’.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/water-facts.html

5. Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water.
http://www.rivers.gov/waterfacts.html

Going, Going, Gone! My Thoughts

The Article I read called Going, Going, Gone was about helium and how if we don't use it wisely we will run out of it for the next generation.

Why is this element rare on Earth, yet abundant throughout the Universe? Because over the millions of years the sun boiled it off on earth and we have used a lot of it up. That is why there is a lot of it in space.

What do we need this element for anyway? We need this element for lots of little things.

What could we do about this problem? Stop using it for unnecessary things like filling up balloons and correcting missile directions.

How could this issue happen with other elements? Give examples. If we used the element for unnecessary things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVK9Om4wzBM
It turned red, bubbled and then red gas floated of the top of the glass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ypUVpwgcAA&feature=related
A little ball of fire starts to moving around in the dish and slowly gets smaller and smaller until it fades away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=896vJj6eWYw&feature=related
It exploded into a firework like explosion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmNPKVEGeQ&NR=1
Similar to the 2nd video but the fire ball turned purple.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJslbQiYrYY&NR=1
It burns for a while then explodes upwards in a puff of smoke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2mj-Sq2oeo&feature=related
liquid Nitrogen floated across the pool and spread all over the pool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7kBkBcXgo&NR=1
The dry ice does nothing in the pool for a long time then it explodes and creates a crater for a split second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pk6s1MbszA&feature=related
Foam pours out of the vile and it turns darker and thicker over the seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i8UGUN9Czg
The chemical is added and it lights on fire and burns quickly then dies out.