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In exactly ten years a strata of blue whales will appear underground at 100 meters above sea level. These whales completely cover this elevation, but only if they are completely underground. Everyone knows this is coming.
 
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Soda replaces all water on Earth

 
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bryan.derksen

I'll assume that all the water on Earth is turning into Coca-Cola, specifically.

First, all ocean life dies immediately.

There's 2.2g of dissolved carbon dioxide in a 335ml can of coke. So multiplying that out to the volume of water on Earth, 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers, we get 9*10^18kg of carbon dioxide fizzing out into the atmosphere. Earth's atmosphere currently weighs 5*10^18kg so the atmospheric pressure goes up to 2.8 atmospheres and is 64% carbon dioxide. This kills all air-breathing life, probably in a matter of hours at most.

Carbon dioxide is, of course, a greenhouse gas. The amount that's been injected into the atmosphere here is unprecedented in Earth's history and will likely result in a runaway greenhouse effect. Earth's temperature will rise well above the boiling point of water and any remaining microbial life will die. Earth will become permanently sterile.

So... bad option. Don't take this one. :)

derksenmobile

Hm. Global earthquakes as the ground shifts and settles, and places with ground level near the 100m mark will probably get fissures spewing high-pressure liquefied whale from them. That's kind of nasty. But I wouldn't be surprised if most of the whale goo remains sequestered deep underground in the high-altitude regions and becomes a new sort of "fossil fuel" resource to tap into.

Ten years gives a lot of time to earthquake-proof our infrastructure, though it'll still really suck. Not as bad as most of the other world-affecting whale WYRs.

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