Raul-7 wrote: ... Modern science has only recently proven that the water covers 71.111% of the Earth, while the land covers 28.889%.
Oh, what a coincedence!
What a coincidence indeed that in context of earth's land/water distribution, a meta-search of the web shows the specific figures 71.111%/28.889% occur only in conjunction with the peculiarly grammatically incorrect phrase "Modern science has only recently proven" - while those particular specific figures do not show up in any legitimate scientific or academic text pertaining to geology, geography, or any other earth science, that I was able to locate on the web.
Then, of course, whatever ratio one accepts, if accurate at all it would be accurate for just a particular snapshot in geologic time; there is the small matter that the distribution of landmass vs water cover is a dynamic ratio, not static. See
Eustatics and
Plate Tectonics; the ratio of land to water has varied significantly over the past few tens of thousands of years, and even moreso if one extends consideration over the past many, many tens of hundreds of millions of years since the planet coallesced, cooled, and developed oceans, an atmoshere, and continents.
Finally, should you have to hand any independently sourced, credible, verifiable figures to support your claim, it would be wonderful were you to produce them. They would certainly put to rest the pernicious myths perpetrated by the conspiriatorial cabal of the likes of
USGS,
NOAA,
NASA, and
ESA - according to them, as of this year the accepted averaged-satellite-data-derived figures were 510,017,200 Km² (± 10 Km²) for the total area of the planet, distributed as 148,923,998.50 Km² Land Area, 361,093,201.50 Km² Water Area relative to the uncorrected median of 510,017,200 Km², for a ratio of 29.1998% land area to 70.8002% water area. I'm sure the world's scientific and academic communities will appreciate being shown the errors of their assumptions.
