What if we found the way to drain all the Earth's oceans through some mysterious portal at the bottom of the Mariana Trench? How long would it take? Years? Centuries? Millennia? Would there be any life left on Earth when the pumping was over? What if it happened overnight?


This video was in part inspired by Randall Munroe's (xkcd) hilarious book "What if: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions"