All Oceans are One Body of Water

@DesirousDreamer Mermaids would probably be blind if living in the abyss. Looking like monkeys doesn't sound bad, they'd still be more human than sharks or whatever.

The bottom of the ocean floor is a lot like deserts. There's not much there! Very little light gets down there, so much of the life is left on continental shelves. If there was less water, there would be more life across the bottoms. It doesn't help that tons of sediment from erosion is constantly flowing out to sea and burying what used to be there.

@OneOfMany But mermaids are still a possibility. They would probably look more like monkeys than humans, but still possible.

Yes, that's a very calming description for it. It makes me less excited. :)

@OneOfMany Except for an enclosed sea, like the Mediterranean - very little, if any, tidal flow there. Then again, seiching is quite pronounced on lakes, a lake near here can be a few feet higher on the windward side than it is on the leeward side - a lake with a slope on it, figuratively-speaking.

@pgntwo Yes, I've mentioned that as an example (in response to other comments) for it not being included with the oceans, since water flows in, but only the super dense salt water flowing out into the Atlantic. I almost included that in this post, but I didn't want to confuse people by bringing Seas into the equation. :) There are some parts of the ocean that can swell to great heights based on the flow of powerful winds and lunar forces, and that water can be much higher than other parts. I haven't seen that much of a difference in lakes, but then, I haven't been around that many to see the difference.

@OneOfMany That's a lot, indeed. But if rain can cause large floods, that's how it has to be. Oh right, the Mediterranean is a salty lake, i.e. sea. Don't worry about lowering the sea level, the next glaciation is going to do that. Where would you place that water, by the way? I guess in some big salty lake dug at the top of a mountain? Or underground tunnels perhaps? That could also make Atlantis emerge.

@sabtraversa Actually, I have a plan all worked out, but mostly just refilling the depleted aquifers around the world, and possibly making the Sahara green again. There's a lot of storage spots for fresh water to go. Keep the salt in the oceans! It's like terraforming, simply moving water around to use it and to prevent it from causing trouble, and never going outside of the health of the waterways to do so. Just utilizing natural high water and preventing floods, droughts, and fires along the way. :)

I went to the USGS site where they had water statistics, and I took the amount of water that evaporates during a full 24 hours all over the world and calculated what that would look like in terms of a waterfall flowing straight up into the air. I took the combined length of the Niagara Falls, straightened it, and applied its average flow rate to its length, and then applied it to the number. In the end, you'd have an inverted Niagara Falls stretching from New York City to 80 miles shy of Portugal. And it would need to run all day long (a full 24 hours) to equal global daily evaporation. That's a lot of water! As for your example, the channel might exist, but it's not like there's water 'flowing' through it. After all, the Mediterranean Sea has no exit but evaporation. Very little of its waters flow back into the Atlantic. Most of the water's flow is into it. The heavier salt water is about the only thing that moves against that flow. I've always wanted to remove a lot of water from the ocean to lower its surface level, since people worry about it rising up. And yes, it's completely doable with a little construction on land (most of it far away from the ocean).

I don't cause trouble... it finds me naturally!

@kobesbuddy It's okay. I've gotten over it already. :)

@OneOfMany You are an innocent by stander

Thank you. I knew my words alone weren't good enough, so I found something to back them up. :D

@OneOfMany you welcome

I read your user name and came to the conclusion that you must deal with teddy bears, and aren't making cybernetic Kodiaks in your basement. :P Though if you are, do you make security guard ones? I went to one of those 'Build a Bear' stores in a mall in January. It was kind of crazy, but it was interesting to see in operation. You're welcome for the thought process, and no, I'm not leaving because of one person. I did need to go cool off though. The last time I was blocked it wasn't pretty either. People get their final word in and leave... pretty immature. But then, we see that everyday in politics and such... people there are worse than kids.

@BearArtistLady Well, I used to be a student when my avatar's picture was taken back in the early 2000s. I just thought a casual conversation between adults wouldn't degrade so rapidly. It's okay, I've studied in college and university and for years by myself... so I know how to research a topic. Some people just have difficulty handling so much raw research power. :) I'm sorry about your house. That must have been rough. It's nowhere on the scale, but I've lost a hard drive before, and it had all my work and years of data on it that I couldn't recover without serious funds. I had to just accept it and start over. Now I back up my files multiple times... you really can't back up a house. Hand stuffed bears are certainly more rugged, but you'd need that with the joints in them. Sounds like you have a lot of fun creating your product. I also create products, but I use the internet to sell them (I'm an author). I only got started at the end of 2016, and couldn't write most of last year, so I'm still building up my product line. My initial trial group has been fun (writing short stories), but I'm about to launch my next pen name and its products. It will be interesting to see how they do.

@OneOfMany I start with a basic idea and a drawing on paper with pencil. It literally grows from a three or four inch drawing to a teddy bear that can measure from three inches tall, fully jointed and stuffed to a teddy bear or other animal that can be as tall as six feet tall and fully jointed and fully stuffed. All the critters I create are fully jointed and until last October I even made the joints. Unfortunately my house burned down October second of last year and the 2500 Masonite joints I had just finished cutting out, were burned in the fire. If you are the kind of student I think you are, you would have a wonderful time learning to design and create teddy bears. I work in acrylic fur, recycled vintage furs, and mohair. Oh, I know the bears at build a bear are machine stuffed, which makes the bear very soft and hugable. My bears are hand stuffed and are very firm. The Build a Bear people, through legalities, have to use acrylic safety eyes. I use the acrylic safety eyes but also use imported glass eyes and antique shoe button eyes. It depends on if the bear goes to a child or an adult. I hate having people who pull that childish stunts like what is done to you. They aren't intelligent enough to realize that they can learn something from everyone if only they'll open their minds. I'm looking to learning a lot from you.

We're certainly connected. After all, the land continues under the ocean. It's not like we're all floating on separate islands in the void. :)

Thank you. I have gotten better as time marches on. I just try not to think about it much, and then it doesn't bug me as much as it used to.