## If the Earth were a Basketball...

Let's think about scale

## The ocean and 95% of the atmosphere (by weight)

Would be the thickness of a sheet of paper together

## We are Earthbound animals

We walk only in the smallest part of that sheet of paper

## We have distorted intuitions about vertical and oceanic spaces/distances

You could drive to the top of the troposphere at its deepest in 6 min at 35 mph / 56 kph