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Originally Posted by gunnut
That's a poor comparison. The ocean is 3 dimentional. A square mile of ocean...what? How deep do you go? 1 mile down? 1 cm down? How deep do you go on land? Just the surface?
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Take your pick.
Any amount of seawater can support biomass, anywhere.
Land surface biomass is limited to nutients in the soil and availability of water.
In short a water world can support more biomass than any land world. A world without water is sterile; ergo the more water the more life. Melt that ice, make more water! The Gorbal Wurming crowd should be in favor of icecaps melting-
Nuke the icecaps!