#waterworld

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[aloneinthedark-eagle]

power of life 🤓

[gottalovecatss]

My Waterworld theory is that the Mariner is fully a virgin (at least until the later half of the movie lol)

[simon-roy]

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[goblinsatchel]

Just some childhood favorites and some silly, ignore the spelling mistakes I’m tired.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Kevin Costner as The Mariner - Waterworld (1995)

[mita84620]

The Lionfish :-

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[junedreamer98]

The Boys Be Virtual.

[forsty]

WATERWORLD commission for the dearest @pixlerelish who spoiled me so so much by commissioning this oh my GOSH

[lukegauthier]

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[lifeofloon]

A good day to visit the Atoll and see Waterworld. Still the best stunt show on the planet even after 29 years!

[quillusquillus]

Waterworld Ocean Mechanics

/!\ Some major Waterworld (1995) SPOILERS for those who care, I'm about to go on a mathematical oceanographic tangent here watch out:

I think at some point I calculated (based on the final scenes of the movie/the Ulysses cut where we see Dryland is actually the top bit of Everest) that the water level in Waterworld has risen by roughly seven kilometers. This means, in formerly ocean areas of Waterworld, the average water depth is 11km, which is coincidentally pretty much exactly the depth of the current deepest point of the ocean, the Mariana Trench.

This would of course be the average depth and the ocean trenches themselves on Waterworld would be a whopping 14-17km deep, with a pressure of 20k-25k psi. I don't know what that does to things, but the current pressure at the Mariana Trench is 16k psi so it's sure doing something.

On areas that were formerly land, the Waterworld ocean depth would average 6km (based on average land elevation) which is under the "very deep" category when I watch Nautilus Live ocean floor mapping.

The photic zone in the ocean (areas where it's light enough for photosynthesis) ranges around 15-200m depending on water clarity. Tropical coral reefs as we know them require light, and would therefore require a mountain range that reaches over 6.8km at least. Aside from a few isolated single peaks, pretty much all mountains that tall are in the interconnected ranges of the Himalayas, the Karakoram, and the Hindu Kush. This means that there is pretty much just one (1) region on the entire planet where the seabed receives light and all the associated fauna with that could theoretically live.

Dryland as discovered in the movie would also not be the only island. If we very conservatively estimate the peaks seen on the island to be about 1km high (I estimated them at 2km for the ocean depth calculation), that still leaves 24-44 theoretical Dryland peaks poking out of the ocean. In combination with the multitude of undersea peaks in the area that reach into the photic zone this would make that area of the world a bountiful archipelago, the only "continent", and overwhelmingly the most life diverse place globally.

If you haven't seen the problem with all this already though, I'm going to summarise it in 8 words: WHERE THE HELL ALL THAT WATER COME FROM?? The highest estimate I could find online for "how high would the ocean rise if all the ice melted" was 70m, which is one percent of the amount that appears to have flooded Waterworld. I'm not sure that amount of water even exists on the planet currently on a molecular level.

Obviously the reason why this much water exists on the planet in Waterworld is because the story needs it to and it's cool shut up, but I have some pet theories. The opening to the movie waffles vaguely about pollution heating the world but if you look at some of the details within the movie it seems to me like it's a more complex story than simple global warming. Animals, plants, and people are weird (sorry Mariner), and here and there there's bits of technology that don't exist yet in our time (the crazy pee filter pump thing??).

I think there was some genetic tinkering that got out of hand, perhaps a biological Grey Goo event that started manufacturing water out of things that weren't water uncontrollably (perhaps in pursuit of hydrogen?). Or perhaps in combination with that, there was some kind of comet involved? A captured source of rare minerals for a growing scifi era that happened to fuck up and dump a huge amount of extra water onto Earth in a big disaster? Mysteries abound.