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Earth was an ocean planet with islands covering just 1% of its surface area

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Fall into a vat of cockroaches

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66% prefer Earth was an ocean planet with islands covering just 1% of its surface area

gruntspwn

Roaches. I can;t doom the people to such a terrible, watery DOOM!

The oceans turn into a flat, grassy plane

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64% prefer Earth was an ocean planet with islands covering just 1% of its surface area

Instead of arms you have venomous snakes growing from your shoulders. You can control them to some degree but they also have minds of their own and will act like normal snakes when you aren't paying close attention.

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73% prefer Earth was an ocean planet with islands covering just 1% of its surface area

gruntspwn

Crap. I don't want snake arms, but I hate islands. Oh well... I can take control of a few islands in eastern Europe, form a clan of raiders, and bring WORKERS REVOLUTIONS to every island in the world!

gruntspwn

Crap. I don't want snake arms, but I hate islands. Oh well... I can take control of a few islands in eastern Europe, form a clan of raiders, and bring WORKERS REVOLUTIONS to every island in the world!

Earth was an arid planet with isolated seas covering just 1% of its surface area

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81% prefer Earth was an ocean planet with islands covering just 1% of its surface area

bryan.derksen

Of the two I expect the arid desert world would actually have much more usable land than the ocean world - there'd be patches of moist climate around each of the seas covering a lot more area than the seas themselves. Also we'd be able to expand the habitable areas via irrigation and other such techniques. And it'd be much easier to access the mineral resources in a vast desert than it would if they're on an ocean floor. Both planets would probably have very harsh weather, but I suspect sandstorms would be more survivable than super-powerful hurricanes.

errorblankfeild

The 1% sea planet has nothing to prevent the population from killing itself. At some point, you will run out of water. You can't stretch it out indefinitely. Seeing as water is essential to life, gimmie the planet with all water. I'll make floating land masses.

jonnyt_

They would both suck logistically. Thus I choose mostly water, simply because it is cooler.

bryan.derksen

There would still be rain on the arid planet, just not in most places. I don't see how the world would "run out" of water - there just wouldn't be a lot of it in circulation at any given time.

sojikari

Following Darwin's theory of Evolution, we'd all still be fishies in the sea. Better happy guppies, than thirsty dumb primapes, I say. Under the sea! *Queue musical number.*

whargolflorp

according to that logic, we evolve to be like nautolans on the water planet, or jawa and tusken raiders on the desert planet.

Earth's sea level drops by 3,500 meters, resulting in a 50/50 ratio of land to ocean surface area.

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35% prefer Earth was an ocean planet with islands covering just 1% of its surface area

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