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		jgtrosh on Aug 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019) Counter pedant: a ball is indeed what you get when, as in TFA, you put water “in a sphere”

Turneyboy on Aug 14, 2024 [–]

I agree. It's a volume of water bounded by a sphere. I'm just being pedantic about the common use of the word in this thread.

I'm also somewhat surprised no one else was being pedantic about this. I expect better from HN :)

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