If all the world's water were a sphere, it'd be about as wide as Alaska

At the U.S. Global Survey website, an image shows all the world's water collected in a sphere, shown floating ominously over the continental U.S. About 860 miles wide, it 'includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant' and would cover most of Alaska. — Read the rest
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