Is this glass of brew flat? Is the last drop? If you very slowly add a lil water on a counter does it form a drop 1st before spreading. Thus the law of molecular adhesion in real time on a flat space. If it slowly moves down hill it pulls itself. So basically Gravity makes them seem flat, they are probably collecting on a curved surface over miles of space.
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Water indeed is a unique substance and here on earth has properties not seen anywhere else in the galaxy. In some places it is stronger than steel, and in other worlds none existent…
Water on earth came from deep space. Most likely most all Solar systems created from blowing Stars have had frozen water Molecules in them. Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen, Iron, light or heavy metals all basics
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So here’s a question Zac…
If water always runs downhill how come there is still water above ground?
I would imagine that the oceans are disappearing into the core and so are receding rather than rising.
Perhaps we need global warming to send all the water up into the air…???
Same reason that the bath water don’t go up yer arris 
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About 110’ with siphon starting it at Sea level. Sea water has the problem of the Clay and very hard rock bottoms. Water tends to evaporate quicker than the forever process of fresh water getting to underground springs. It does but slowly. Reason Agrégation rapidly lowers the amount of water in the Aquifer / cisterns underground. There is a lot of water underground, its the cost of reaching it. Is it pure or contaminated with weed spray / insecticide. Its hard to conceptualize the amount of gallons of Rainfall in a Major Thunderstorm, but the Missouri is at 20’ & Minor flood stage. Hard weather these past 10 days.
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Haven’t you noticed that rocks are heavier/denser than water otherwise they’d float so the water stays on top (except in the Great Artesian Basin)
Only for yanks but not for metric users, every 1mm of rainfall is 1litre over 1sq metre. Easy as!
My garden is 615 sq metres so every millimetre of rain is 615 litres, this morning 0.75mm of rain fell so my garden received 461 litres. Nothing complicated about that.
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I actually never cared. Lol So approximately 500,000 + gallons of water fall on a Farm. Wowsa, the Jelly Fish dancing!
"Bring it on!“
"2’ in my Crick.”
Is that measured in the little US gallon (3.8L) or the Imperial gallon (4.5L)?
Because the difference is about 400,000 litres, that’s a lot of water, in fact 400 cubic metres of water difference.
It only maters if you are on a Water Meter!
You meter rainwater?
My average water bill is around - $100 USA a month.
I sort of frown on anything that isn’t USA measured.
Empirical crap? Don’t like millimeters either. .001 of an inch for me. Digital scale Mic’s here.
I appreciate MM cap-screws. Hate the old US mild steel junk. Its Gallons, Feet, Miles, Acres for me. I have tons of Millimeter Tools. And Impact wrenches Air and Battery.
I am very familiar with the farms creek being over 100 yards wide and running hard all day long after a cloud burst. in the water all day in a couple of days putting the flood fence back in the creek flow to slow cattle and hogs getting out of the pasture. Couple years later pop moved the pasture.
Visualizing a creak turning into a raging river is a very real memory for 9 year old, I was.
I won’t even try to count the Billions of gallons of wild water a flow. Lake topping its dam to flow and flood, yepper. Most all in valleys experience the feel it; sooner or later.
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My town water is metered but not rainwater, my water bill is usually between $70 and $80 for three months. My latest bill:
I have about 5000 litres of rainwater in a couple of tanks for watering the garden, That’s 5 tonnes or 5 cubic metres or 5kL. You can work it out in gallons if you like.
I don’t really care, in S.C. they put water in big tanks above the garage floor to hold Hurricane weather emergency water if hit and need to get back to their home area with power generator, fuel and food, the Sheriff will let them go back home.
It matters when you got a soggy mattress, no place to sleep except the hill up there and a tarp. Still You haven’t drowned yet!
For me being near the Mississippi river and its tributaries, a hard rain caused mayhem across entire states. Seeing the old Miss. The Illinois, the Mo. the Black hawk, the Wapsie R., the Cedar Rivers all smoked with wild flows of water, melt water and hard spring rains flowing all at the same time, witnessing them weeks long flooding and the people in rowboats to get to their home’s. Struggling to get my cars rear axle back together and driving thru the raising water to save it. Sure, count the Gulf stream full of Miss. mud…
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I had a look at the Mississippi Basin (1,151,000 sq km - 41% of the USA), it is a roughly similar size to the Murray-Darling Basin (1,061,469 sq km - 14% of the continent) but the big difference is the amount of water it carries.
The Mississippi discharges an average of 16 tonnes of water per second into the Gulf of Mexico whereas the Murray Darling only manages about 2 tonnes per second into the Southern Ocean in a very wet year, some years the river mouth doesn’t even open. That’s the problem with being a dry continent.
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Kilometers were invented to make runners think they have jogged further than they have, it sounds more impressive to say, “just done a 5K” rather than say “Just jogged 3.1 miles”. 
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Those must be the US kilometres.
They are, looks neater!
Australia has always fascinated me, but it’s not on my bucket list.
I’ll let the Crock deal with its stuff. What he’s a no show. BS.
I do wonder at times, is a gateway to Wonders Antarctica may contain.
Maybe New Zealand is a great jump of point to it. What is it about the Ross Sea?