What If Earth's Topography Was Inverted?

What if all the Earth's land became ocean, and all the oceans became land? And what if our mountains turned into deep trenches, while the trenches grew to the highest peaks on the planet?
What would this new world look like? Where, on this sprawling landmass, would humanity live?
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[@WhatIfScienceShow]

A related story for another what-if: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5-1gXujp7WEoLc

[@rameees]

Thats good! But what i meant was what if we pumped all the sea water into space? Would we get more land?

[@kartikeyaverma9551]

what is all countrys make world peace and then there will be no borders for anyone just tax

[@Kjones520]

This is such an excellent theory. It would be cool if we did see what organism would really look like if the topography was inverted, and how different life would be from evolution.

[@paynito1436]

What If Wat if da ppl in the world that’s currently alive can live forever BUT no more babys can be born

[@patrickquinn5071]

What if Mars blew up

[@lagseeing8341]

Patiently waiting for him to say "we die".

[@zerkalt190]

300th like

[@rubbiigamesbasic3201]

303th like

[@londonmorrow1136]

:3 true

[@realdeal5712]

U realize if that truly happen, human is not goinf to extinct right? We come here to see how enviroment and life change. Not just that one word. Ah what do i expect from an anime profile

[@lagseeing8341]

@@realdeal5712 r/iamverysmart

[@moketli9517]

I like how he ends it he's like well that's another story for another what if

[@someoneonaplanet]

Yeah

[@princetyagii]

But would he also say this statement in his last video

[@savitasingh5327]

Yeah

[@shineesdiamond3218]

Yes, I begin to say this part with him too 😂

[@keonroshdieh2497]

Agreed 💯👍

[@theCodyReeder]

I've been living 3km above sea level my whole life so the point about low oxygen is just silly.

[@wickedalpaca2343]

I agree, if theres anything every human on earth is good at its adaptation

[@lottecooper4370]

Wow, visit me at ten meter :D

[@Ryan-pg1tw]

Maybe you should express your opinion more respectful

[@indigo1324]

Yeah. I live in the Midwest (roughly 220 meters.) But when I visited the Grand Canyon I was just fine, even though I was at like 2500 meters. I guess different people’s bodies react differently though.

[@dddf27]

Yes but what if human evolve

[@deshpandesarvesh06]

Please do one on this : What if the volumes of oxygen and nitrogen in the air are interchanged

[@Sankalp712]

Earth Will look like sun i guess Oxygen is highly combustible

[@sergiontothetop]

It cant happend becuse then it will be 75% not 100

[@AmalDevYT]

We Die

[@deshpandesarvesh06]

@David Riedy In that video we lost oxygen, whereas in this one we would get more than triple the amount of it.. Yes, it will be interesting..

[@deshpandesarvesh06]

@@AmalDevYT too easy 😂😂

[@javazrolle2797]

What if all mosquitoes in the world vanished?

[@alanking3332]

I wish

[@arundk817]

Knowing what-if, somehow we'd die🙄😂😂

[@londonmorrow1136]

He’s probably gonna make something up so he can say “we die”

[@arestocat]

Nothing would happen. Mosquitos are the second most useless creatures on the food-chain after humans.

[@teddybonkers3580]

Fun fact. Mosquitoes have no useful purpose. They simply exist. If every mosquito disappeared, there would be zero consequences or effects in the environment/food chain. The only thing it would do is there'd be no more mosquito, one less nuisance.

[@camilohiche4475]

What if the Earth spun the other way around? What if the Sun was 10% smaller/bigger? What if a global cooling of 2° happened? What if a big asteroid hit the moon? What if the Earth's atmosphere had double the amount of oxygen? What if the world's entire nuclear arsenal was bombed at once?

[@alexbedel6320]

Double the amount of oxygen is an easy one. Bigass bugs.

[@camilohiche4475]

@@johnperic6860 Yes thank you, I saw that video and my reaction was "wtf, I suggested that to What If literally a couple days ago!" :) And thank you for all of your answers and time spent on them. :D

[@TyrannicusKoopa]

If the earth went backwards sub would set in the east and rise in the west

[@Purpose_Porpoise]

What if you wanted to go to heaven, but god said *nonononononono*

[@mrboleus8240]

For your last question, Kurzgesagt has the answer.

[@faizanbaig2840]

What if Jupiter and Venus swap places in the solar system?

[@draoidh6479]

RIP earth I guess

[@draoidh6479]

Jupiter would 1- rather attract our planet and devore it. Or tear it apart and then wear beautiful rings like Saturn. Or retain us as a moon. 2-attract asteroids and commets and some of them could hit us and makes us end up like a chicken in a salad RIP

[@HanaNoMachi]

Cristhian Fuertes You need to spell devour correctly.

[@vinnytheplayer5500]

Venus would probably be 100 degrees in farenheit because of its composition

[@kamrynann2847]

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[@CoffeeSuccubus]

But the thing is, if you inverted earth, the landmass wouldn't look the same as it would if the oceans were reversed. There would be new continents no doubt. Because I wouldn't imagine the water being static to the continents in such perfection.

[@RBEO22]

If the water to land ratio remained the same then yeah

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

What if Thanos ends up killing everyone with a second snap and winning the war?

[@sanketoiler6526]

He will Win

[@perfectdiver1]

Doesn’t he just kill another 50% of the remaining population?

[@yogeshairy9178]

Then he will have no one to rule .

[@opelektro5663]

By doing the second snap the the 50% from the remaining will vanish. But if he continues to snap like that there will be only two of them, thanos and the last person.

[@madhusarda7998]

That will create alternate timeline, which will end when he kills everyone, as either universe will end or out will expand into infinity

[@Hillareas]

I love this channel because you get straight to the point and you actually answer the question and don’t drag it like other channels

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[@alanking3332]

How is that raciest, unless you're being sarcastic

[@phasetolead4595]

@@alanking3332 thank you just didn't want to waste my energy to reply him

[@yoonglescomfydumb0309]

It's so amazing how precise everything about earth is.

[@quasar1923]

What if gravity stopped working for 1 minute

[@aryavsaigal8898]

zmkill3r you mean the whole universe all just earth

[@16.jibrilramadhanialamsjah54]

Planet's orbit will change?

[@johannfer7073]

zmkill3r we will float in the air .. keep floating up to the sky.. after 1 minute, we die..

[@mhakkieofficial8373]

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[@St4r_4U230]

What if everyone shouted at the same time?

[@St4r_4U230]

@@proto3139 noise pollution

[@prosyndication21]

Depends on the density of people. Higher density would be...well... devastating.

[@windwaker1401]

Pearl's Booyah from Octo Expansion

[@taizu55]

All mirrors will shatter😂

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[@rameees]

Could be so kind to do a show on : What if we somehow pump all the water into space! Please.. Cause it will be really interesting

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[@josephkane2312]

For a guy with such a cheerful voice in all his videos, his answer to everything is "we die"

[@Dontcarebear33]

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[@jordanmicahcook]

What if “What If” made actual What Ifs covering the topics they said were “For another What If”?

[@alanfindlay3233]

A variation to consider: the topography inverts, but the volume of sea water remains the same. What would the land above "sea level" look like? What would the coastlines look like?

[@mudiaden603]

Came here when this channel had 50k subs and its growing like fire know.

[@meenabehal8001]

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[@TheJwwinter]

The sea level/air pressure/oxygen thing is wrong in this scenario. The current scenario does not apply unless it happens all of a sudden.

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[@alanking3332]

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[@canuckster24]

Would have worked better if the amount of ocean water doesn't change, obviously the world is still going to be 75% ocean or whatever the ratio is.

[@lightning-9027]

- Omg i want the 'what if' you mentionned in the last part as soon as possible :o :o

[@sindhu9049]

Topic for another what if - What if animals did not evolve ?

[@marcone8612]

I love how you don't want humans to die....

[@CesareVesdani]

We would have more land for agriculture if the world was inverted. That would also be good for spreading out 7 billion people. More homes could be built in addition to much more land.

[@lightvoid7089]

cool concept, great visuals!

[@whymozu]

What if Earth was 50% Land 50% Water?

[@donquesewilliamswilliams3497]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

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[@Alittledose]

What If our mothers never stopped breastfeeding us?

[@kelly2fly]

1. If it's normal and acceptable then OK. But, if not, then you'd be considered a creep. 2. Your teeth would rot. There's a lot of sugar in milk. 3. Your dad would kick you to the curb.

[@kelly2fly]

@Ice humans are also mammals so no breast milk for vegans.

[@draoidh6479]

@Ice vegetarians DRINK milk but they don't eat meat. Vegans don't drink milk

[@draoidh6479]

@@kelly2fly if it is cruelty free? I think everyone including vegans would drink it.

[@Azmina_the_warlock]

@@draoidh6479 I dunno, breastfeeding for more than a few years sounds very cruel to the mother.

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[@xf4slv817]

I thought about this very much. So before watching... thnks for making this

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[@jalen6673]

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[@chiragsharma9619]

This is the best one of all.

[@chiragsharma9619]

Its my second heart. Thanks

[@jameslol1582]

Who else read it as "What if earth's topography was invented"?

[@stevx007]

Lol same

[@athrunwyz1839]

Wow, so amazing! I just thought about this "what if" several years ago. I focus on the different parts from this clip. In that world, the inland area would be hard for human living, therefore the countries and main power would mainly circle around the sea areas. But there would be no united trading system, due to the separated sea. Therefore, there would be no more global dominate power like what the U. S. was now. It would be a seperate world. The gap among different civilizations would enlarge comparing to the real world. If someone wrote a fantasy or science fiction book based on that background, I must buy one!

[@katherineadams54]

What if we found a parallel universe?

[@Vobefrod]

Ya this is cool and exactly what I searched for, but what if the topography/altitudes were inverted AND there was the same VOLUME of sea water? The shores would be much further inland.

[@mctthw]

What if the earth was not flat? 🤔

[@RamanKT01]

Then it is cube

[@phabidz]

Earth is a woman

[@RamanKT01]

No earth is gay

[@mctthw]

Best Scence earth is non-binary

[@spooks2170]

no this is Patrick

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[@YusukeEugeneUrameshi]

Earth is perfectly made. How fascinating. Little difference in our Earth will affect our life and our future.

[@MSDesignASMR]

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[@elvincalayag7054]

I've been searching this for several months until now... I have now found what if land became water and water became land

[@harshchandel26]

Underrated Channel.

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I probe this channel a couple hours ago, and found out it got new one K subscribes every fifteen minutes, hurray one million coming soon

[@casadaze6098]

I love how he basically explains things in a good way not "We die." XD

[@daanadema9808]

Omg a lot of people life 840 meters above sealevel. I life 6 meters below sealevel. Welcome to The Netherlands😂

[@enderwolfi3990]

This video does have one small mistake. 840*4=3360 There are a lot of people who live well above that elevation, so that wouldn't be a huge problem except for people with breathing conditions. Also, depending on how finicky we want to be with planetary parameters, because almost 80% of earth is now well above sea level, that land would displace some of the air so the air pressure would be a little higher at 3500 feet than it is on our earth.

[@predalf]

What about inverted topography with the same amount of water?

[@shl24yw89]

What if, "What If" actually make a video of 'What if' whenever he said, "That a story for another What If"? You have so many debt dear, What If.

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Your videos are amazing

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

Thanks! Watch them all kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2nVamqoaZeqe9E&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTJgv2LQSHuUNteymhLQSLVv

[@SabastianSheehy]

I love your videos they are so informational but sometime scary

[@dyscea]

One of those crazy but simple ideas that shouldn't be surprising but wish I had thought of.

[@kennkoala]

Nothing in the scenario posited that the volume of water would change. Some of the new lowlands would still be covered quite deeply, possibly to the point of having a series of interconnecting shallow channels.

[@johnbeal8395]

The major variable is the amount of water which you altered totally arbitrarily.

[@Ostermond]

I’d still love to see what a still-70%-water map of inverted earth. Flooded look be damned, I still wanna see it.

[@themochamuffin1887]

Yes same

[@ayushmandubey1293]

Make a video "what if we are able to drink sea water or sea water become fresh water"

[@frankaustin6236]

Now that's curious

[@xxxholic4071]

Love your videos

[@angelsartandgaming]

Honestly inverted Earth looks like a fantasy map for either a game or a Dungeons and Dragons session, and I'd play it.

[@KrishK8055]

You are running Outta ideas my friend but still it's better than 99% content on KZbin

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[@supernova6177]

"What if earths topography was inverted?" Your dad would become a lesbian

[@draoidh6479]

Ha, bold of you to assume My dad's straight He a lesbian Cuz he likes girls 😎

[@user-IL1EL]

SUPERNOVA i am already lesbian because I like girls lol

[@thesportsguy3088]

And you mom gay.

[@KKAnims]

How do you guys release videos every other day?? 😕😖

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See bright side you will come to know

[@keithparker1346]

I recall this crazy idea in a Fantastic Four comic...what if Earth was expanded like a balloon to twice it's size?

[@leventegyorgydeak1300]

Waiting for your channel to be at 10 million

[@anjanach9004]

What if we lived in the clouds

[@crystalrogers3420]

The Mariana trench would become the biggest mountain on earth. Mariana mountain and the Everest trench. Also the grand canyon would be interesting to see inverted.

[@mihailaromanianguy3]

What if Earth is dinosaur-shaped?

[@noam5831]

Every video likes this one makes me realise even more how rare life on planets are

[@AlexLopez-jy7ro]

I was kinda of hoping that this video would talk about earth starting out inverted rather than becoming inverted, because then life would grow differently, including humans

[@prnrbn6605]

Waiting for this channel to hit 1Million Subscribes

[@rheakatesh9703]

This video is another piece of proof of why we are living on the perfect planet. I ❤️ Earth.

[@russellsharp3067]

Lost me at "maybe we would have evolved to be cold blooded"... Interesting up to that point

[@pkgod99]

Honestly, predicting the inverted topography instead of flipping water and land is probably much more interesting. Many cultures and life thrive and developed into what we know because of the landscape and etc... Predicting how history would change and the society would be like will be much more entertaining. Instead of just an environment disastrous planet

[@CUXOB2]

Not changing the amount of water would be more interesting, what the continents would look like...

[@unfetteredparacosmian]

Look up Planetocopia's Abyssia.

[@BonjourKeith]

I swear this channel is slept on 😔

[@tallenpelegrin7026]

What if the Earth was inverted but the same quantity of water still existed? That would mean that some or many sections of land that are currently under water would still be under water with an inverted topography Earth. I'd like to see a video on that rather than this one which also includes this idea of much less ocean water.

[@jaappijnappel8486]

In the intro you're talking about what if the mountains turn into trenches with a map of the Netherlands on the background. The funny part about that is that we don't have any mountains in the Netherlands😂🤣😁🤣

[@bryetemplet3911]

What I pick up from all these videos is that if the earth wasn’t exactly like it was now we’d all be dead