A few years ago , a leger , What If ? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions , posed the question : what would happen if a bantam 10 - meter ( 33 - foot ) trap open up in the Mariana Trench ?
First off , the author explains , some pretty cool things would happen .
" I want to get one thing out of the way first , " Randall Munroe said onXKCD .
" According to my rough computation , if an aircraft aircraft carrier sink and got stuck against the drain , the pressure sensation would easily be enough to fold it up and suck it through . Cooool . "
In the hypothetical scenario , the 10 - meter ( 33 - base ) hole is , in fact , a portal , so any water that escapes through it would n’t be capable to re - enter the Earth ’s piddle bicycle . The mess is at the bottom of the deep part of the ocean , the Challenger Deep , and the water system gets dumped on Mars ( why not ? ) .
Munroe explains that at first , not much would fall out . The oceans are immense . Even though water would rush out of the hepatic portal vein at stupefying hurrying , the oceans would only drip by less than a centimeter ( 0.4 inch ) a day .
" There would n’t even be a nerveless whirlpool at the Earth’s surface – the opening is too lowly and the sea is too mysterious , " Munroe read .
However , after a few hundred thousand year the Earth would change a lot . novel subaquatic island would be revealed , nation divided by seas would become connected once more , and the Earth would jump to wait very dissimilar indeed .
Ca n’t picture it ? Well , there ’s no need . An enthusiastic Redditor , Vinnytsia , has created an animation register the existence ’s oceans draining aside through this hypothetical plughole .
It ’s very cool .
Vinnytsiaexplains on Reddithow they made the life , using info from the Natural Earth Oceans and Lakes and Reservoir data set . They also used an open reservoir governmentGlobal Relief Model mapand " the math for estimate the meter is based on a simplified version of the Bernoulli incompressible flow equivalence " .
In short , they were passing thorough with their model . you could crack out a full explanation of how they made it on theData is Beautiful military post , it ’s just as cool as the map itself .
If you ’d like to cognize what would pass to Mars once all this pee was dump there through the portal , Randall Munroeexplains that on his site too .
