What if H2O became just H and O?

[Grinder]

This is bloody great guys....

[TykeMerc]

Yeah and some of the atmosphere would extend up as far as the moon, and the extra drag on its orbit would cause it to come crashing down to earth and we'd all die.

Even if it did (which I very much doubt) then all life on the planet would be extinguished long before that in the gigantic explosion of the atmosphere combusting.

[NotAllThere]

But once it all burned, we'd have oceans again.

[Churchill]

But once it all burned, we'd have oceans again.

Just like last time!

[RichardCranium]

But once it all burned, we'd have oceans again.

Just like last time!

I predict a sequel!

[Grinder]

This is definitely my Plan B now.

One potential hitch is our own water content. We would presumably cease to exist as hydrogen-oxygen-carbon creatures.

[SizeZero]

As our bodies consist of 90% H2O, we'd all be dust anyway.


Going to be a very short movie, I won't buy popcorn.

[BrollyBonce]

* I'm thinking of some non-existing catalytic process, perhaps caused by research into alternative fuels.

You could have automated water -> gas conversion ships that work on sea-water that have their control system taken over by terrorists.

Initially intended to reduce sea levels from global warming, sea water is being split by loads of ships around the world that have a pipe running back to land providing hydrogen for fuel.

The excess oxygen is being converted to oxeel and sodium oxi-chloride. Oxeel is a long chain molecule formed from a huge oxygen ring which is then flattened and twisted in a helix. This forms solid crystals which sink and are just dropped on the sea bed. The salinity of the sea is maintained by producing small amounts of sodium oxi-chloride which are stored up on the ships until collected monthly in a routine visit from special collecting ships.

It is the special collecting ship that the hero will use to <do something to save the world>.

A catalyst is used to split the sea water into oxeel and sodium oxi-chloride; energy for the reaction simply comes from sunlight on the solar panels of the ships.

The opportunity has been taken by USA and others to split excess sea water; they are using it as a desalination process to provide drinking water. This is what has angered the eco-terrorists and made them decide to sabotage the control systems. They have set the ships to "max processing" and opened the hydrogen vents on the ships. Their intention is to flood the atmosphere with hydrogen until their demands are met.

You can use the 'oxeel' waffle as a way of maintaining the oxygen level around 20% to prevent spontaneous combuision of most everything.

Something that currently envelopes the whole earth to a height that probably exceeds the depth of the deepest part of the ocean - I guess its due to difference in the densities....

Let's say the average sea depth is 1 mile. The atmosphere is 8 miles thick. The sea water expands by a factor of 1000 to produce a gas and covers half the world gives an additional atmosphere of 500 miles. Assume some compression occurs, how about an extra 100 miles of atmosphere?

The northern lights and southern lights would be VERY spectacular!

Make up whatever effects you want for the clouds: but you can forget being able to see stars in that depth of atmosphere. Also, daylight's colour will change.

Yeah and some of the atmosphere would extend up as far as the moon, and the extra drag on its orbit would cause it to come crashing down to earth and we'd all die.

That's a quarter of a million miles. Very Hollywood!

Having the satellites falling in sounds like fun. The global comms networks will start to fail as they do so...

... as will the nuclear strike early warning systems...

One potential hitch is our own water content. We would presumably cease to exist as hydrogen-oxygen-carbon creatures.

The catalyst ONLY works on water.

[The Lone Gunman]

I just got an image in my head for the final scene.
A bloke standing up to his knees in water, wet through but with his clothes burnt and smouldering, a soggy fag between his lips and an extinguished match in his hand. Others similarly wet and burned looking at him.
He looks defiantly ands says "what?"

[HairyArsedBloke]

House prices would go down as there would be more land to build on.

Beer would go up due to a lack of a vital component.

Not sure what would happen to global warming.