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Originally Posted by Pretzelle
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Also, take a cue-ball sized sphere of rock and metal, smoother than any ball you can imagine, dunk it water. The thin layer of water clinging to the surface is magnitudes deeper than our oceans. The earth is mind blowingly enormous.
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Except it still runs off the bottom. And that concept doesn't scale.
A bowling ball would have the same size film regardless of how big it is.
The reason why the ocean is thousands of miles deep is because of the shape and size of the
container, not because of mass.