<story><title>Why is the ocean salty?</title><url>https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/whysalty.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sundarurfriend</author><text>I like that the article begins with a tl;dr summary of&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Ocean salt primarily comes from rocks on land&lt;p&gt;Not many articles do that, but it only made reading the rest of the article more appealing to me, not less.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why is the ocean salty?</title><url>https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/whysalty.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bcaulfield</author><text>Love any science article that provides a clear, scientifically accurate answer to any question my 6 year old asks me.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a lot of salt, though: &amp;quot;if the salt in the ocean could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth’s land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick.&amp;quot;</text></comment>