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1320Fastback t1_je5163p wrote

How many foredeck cruise ship pools is this? I've never seen an Olympic pool before.

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OccludedFug t1_je516zl wrote

The hard part is lining up 83 Olympic sized swimming pools to catch the outflow of one second of Amazon River, second after second.

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Uncle_Budy t1_je550k5 wrote

Also really cool, along it's entire length, there are no bridges built over the Amazon River.

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bananavernier t1_je5q58w wrote

or fill one Library of Congress every 11 to 12 seconds.

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krectus t1_je5s6ki wrote

Oh god let’s hope they don’t hold an Olympics on the Amazon river anytime soon.

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FunkyBotanist t1_je60hke wrote

For context, the Mississippi River: 18,434 sq m/s. The Amazon River: 224,000 sq m/s. Wow!

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NosyObscurity26 t1_je64pbv wrote

To convert this to Olympic-sized swimming pools, which have a volume of approximately 2,500 cubic meters each, we can divide the Amazon River's average discharge by 2,500.

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kozmonyet t1_je65pz2 wrote

Damnit. Now I need to translate Olympic swimming pool area into football fields and multiply by an estimated human height when standing on another's shoulders to get a grasp on that volume.

Why can't they just stick to easy common references like washing machines or cars??!?

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throwawayA511 t1_je6cmdc wrote

I remember reading about the movie Dead Alive and it saying that during the lawnmower scene fake blood was pumped at 5 gallons per second. I thought that was so impressive that I had to see it. This is 58 MILLION gallons per second. It’s incomprehensible.

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snacktonomy t1_je6nmzv wrote

Humanity: "For now! But we're working on it"

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Cetun t1_je6x9vt wrote

That actually seems low.

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Marconidas t1_je73kip wrote

Ironically, it is the least used drainage basin of the South American continent. More outflow and more length is good ... up until certain point. And the Amazon River far exceeds the optimal gains. There is simply so much water in the basin that it disturbs the idea of putting bridges or anything over the river. The river is so massive and with a heavy rainforest nearby that using it for commercial purposes for industrial usage is hard. Channeling it for agriculture is also not useful because there is so much rain in the region that the floodplain is not fertile due to extreme natural leaching, making it useless.

You would think that having a bigger river would develop the region more, but the Amazon region is the least economically developed in Brazil, and most countries with rivers that drain into the Amazon River have also failed to economically develop.

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ShEsHy t1_je7rkyf wrote

Replying to Marconidas (#2,462,723)

> There is simply so much water in the basin that it disturbs the idea of putting bridges or anything over the river.

Not to mention that, IIRC, the seasonal flooding is just insane, flooding an area the size of Germany or something like that. And the width of the river doesn't help, as it averages several kilometres wide even during the dry season, and several dozen kilometres during the wet season.
It's a monster, and now I wanna see some documentaries about it again :).

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Historical-Fox1372 t1_je8rk1m wrote

Replying to Cetun (#2,461,358)

That was my reaction. Don't get me wrong, that's a lot of water, but I thought the Amazon would pump more. Its 25 miles wide at some points in rainy season and still 7 miles in the dry. An absolutely monstrous stream of water.

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382Whistles t1_je8zxy4 wrote

Replying to rblythe999 (#2,467,769)

According to our records that package wasn't scheduled to be delivered by us.

Maybe U.P.s-ed it out?

(There is a kidney stone joke in there somewhere too. No eye woodn't go lookin' close)

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