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come one huge mass of ice, with a layer of only a few meters of
water at the top. Even if the air temperature above were to warm
again, ice at the bottom would never thaw. In the seas of such a
planet, life could not be sustained; and in an eco-system where
the seas are “dead,” neither could life on land be sustained. In
short, if water were to behave “normally,” we would have a
dead world.
Why does water not contract, but only until its temperature
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has fallen to 4 C? Then it begins to expand again! That paradox
has never been answered by anyone.
Thanks to water’s unique thermal properties, the tempera-
ture differences between summer and winter, day and night re-
main always within the levels tolerated by humans and other
living things. If the world’s land area were bigger than its water
area, temperature differentials between day and night would in-

crease dramatically. Most of the land mass would turn into
deserts, making life impossible or at least, incredibly hard to sus-
tain. Were water’s thermal properties any different, we would
have a planet extremely unfavorable to life.
Professor Lawrence Henderson, of the Biochemistry depart-
ment at Harvard University, studied water’s thermal properties
and made the following comment:
To sum up, this property appears to possess a threefold impor-
tance. First, it operates powerfully to equalize and to moderate
the temperature of the earth; secondly, it makes possible very ef-
fective regulation of the temperature of the living organism; and
thirdly it favors the meteorological cycle. All of these effects are
true maxima, for no other substance can in this respect compare
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