A figure showing cartoon-style sun, clouds, stick figure, tree, house, ocean, fish, seaweed, and a gear in the middle with arrows flowing between all of them (black ink and colored pencil)

If the Earth were a Basketball...

Let's think about scale

The ocean and 80% 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