The 1995 science fiction classic Waterworld imagines humanity at the far end of runaway climate change. It takes viewers several centuries into the future after rising global temperatures melted the ice caps and glaciers, burying the world’s land masses beneath an unbroken global ocean. What remains of humanity must eke out a living in floating cities and small watercraft. Such is life on Waterworld.

Here in the 21st Century, we may have some ice and dry land, but our planet is still an ocean world with plenty of secrets hidden in its murky depths. Recently, scientists discovered a predicted but previously undetected blob stretched across the Atlantic Ocean.

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We think of our planet as being made of distinct continents and oceans, each with a name and identity. And we make kids memorize them in grade school. In reality, there is only one ocean, the World Ocean, and it’s wrapped around the continents like a massive, wet, planetary hug.

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