{"id":158394,"date":"2022-05-17T17:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/33482435"},"modified":"2022-05-17T17:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:30:53","slug":"33482435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/33482435","title":{"rendered":"Could Earth exist without oceans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 97% of Earth&#8217;s total water is in the five oceans. It&#8217;s one of the most important substances in the universe, necessary to support all life that we know of. Without water, a human will die within three days. But what if that life source didn&#8217;t exist on our planet? Taking the bizarre hypothetical a step further, what would happen if the earth didn&#8217;t have oceans? How would the ecosystem on our planet be affected? And would we be able to survive it?What if Earth did not have oceans? At least three of the four inner planets currently have or have previously had liquid water. Earth, of course, has a vast supply of water, but Venus and Mars likely had surface water once upon a time. Venus may have been habitable for billions of years, far longer than our most generous estimations for the previous habitability of Mars. This is what the Earth looks like with all the water gathered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 97% of Earth&#8217;s total water is in the five oceans. It&#8217;s one of the most important substances in the universe, necessary to support all life that we know of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}