Timeline for What if the ocean's salt level decreased by 50%?
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| Nov 12, 2019 at 2:34 | answer | added | moost | timeline score: -1 | |
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| Sep 19, 2016 at 10:00 | comment | added | insanity | @ThalesPereira Interestingly enough, one comment on the related question says: "..speaking from experience, you may get better(answers that directly answer your question) answers if you just handwave the salt away, rather than tell them how the salt went away..." You just can't win, heh? But being the OP of the related question, I can tell you that you're right. The details in my question actually helped lead me to the solution i ended up using. | |
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 11:20 | vote | accept | Mithical | ||
| Aug 9, 2016 at 8:20 | comment | added | CoffeDeveloper | And we end up finally like in interstellar ^^ | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 20:20 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | @Marius - yes, the great fear is that even a much lesser degree of desalinization will decrese the density of the ocean water enough that it would be unable to continue with Thermohaline circulation. Shutting off the ocean currents would also mean massive stagnation of the waters, as well as no longer distributing the heat, so equatorial latitudes would become brutally hot, northern climes would get colder. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 16:01 | comment | added | Mithical | @ThalesPereira No. That is completely no salt. This still has half of the salt content. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 16:00 | history | edited | Mithical | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2016 at 14:00 | comment | added | Mermaker | Possible duplicate of What if the seas had fresh water in them? | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 13:58 | comment | added | Mermaker | @Mithrandir keep in mind that worldbuilding is a complex activity that deals with a lot of intertwined components. Dealing with just a single aspect of the world while ignoring the rest more often than not produce a lower-than-average suspension of disbelief and kinda breaks the deal for the reader, in the end. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 13:55 | comment | added | Mermaker | @Mithrandir because there is a lot of "hows" involved - stuff is not that simple. Where the salt went? How stuff happened that way? Why it did happen? Check the related question - it's almost the same thing, but it has a way higher quality - and the answers saved that OP from a really ugly plothole. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 13:51 | comment | added | Mithical | @ThalesPereira WHy would I need to include a backstory? If I want to know that the new salt-based economy won't/will kill the ocean, why do you care? | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 13:47 | comment | added | Mermaker | Those questions that try to staple a random number to some natural thing (50% less salty, 25% more oxygen, etc) without any backstory or context really irk me. It seems too much arbitrary to be useful for worldbuilding. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 10:47 | answer | added | CoffeDeveloper | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 8:25 | history | edited | Mithical | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2016 at 8:02 | comment | added | Marius | As Vincent mention the oceanic currents would change, which would greatly affect life on land too. Great ocean currents are responsible for transporting heat around the globe. Some believe that the golf current will change enough with lower salt content that certain areas of the world will get much much colder in case of a global warming that melts the ice caps. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 8:01 | comment | added | Mithical | @MooseBoys The same place where Mars went. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 7:25 | answer | added | IndigoFenix | timeline score: 46 | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 5:05 | comment | added | MooseBoys | Where exactly is this 10 million cubic kilometers of salt going? Accross 3 months that's over a cubic kilometer per second. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 4:48 | answer | added | Mirror318 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 2:35 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 20:52 | answer | added | Mike Scott | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 20:43 | answer | added | Erin Thursby | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | Vincent | On a side note, it would change the oceanic currents dynamic since fresh water is less dense than salt water. | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 15:21 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 7, 2016 at 14:49 | answer | added | Jarred Allen | timeline score: 18 | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 14:29 | history | asked | Mithical | CC BY-SA 3.0 |