The answer is clearly 2

September 21, 2011 5:51 AM

How many oceans are there?
posted by hal_c_on (25 comments total)

Is it counting day on MetaFilter?

_{One.....two....ah ha ha.}
posted by schmod at 5:52 AM on September 21, 2011 [1 favorite]

Why do you hate the mods?
posted by swift at 5:52 AM on September 21, 2011 [2 favorites]

Fewer than the number of flags this post is going to get.
posted by jozxyqk at 5:57 AM on September 21, 2011

All of them.

Plus three.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 5:57 AM on September 21, 2011

What was the purpose of this?
posted by Think_Long at 5:58 AM on September 21, 2011

Why are there so many songs about rainbows?
posted by phong3d at 5:59 AM on September 21, 2011

The answer is blowing in the wind.
posted by Bromius at 5:59 AM on September 21, 2011

Flagged as too Earth-centric.
posted by DU at 5:59 AM on September 21, 2011

One.

There are, however, Seven Seas.
posted by eriko at 6:02 AM on September 21, 2011 [1 favorite]

too few kitties in this post
posted by ReWayne at 6:03 AM on September 21, 2011

There are thirteen. But twelve was pretty rubbish.
posted by Sutekh at 6:04 AM on September 21, 2011

Are we counting the Sea of Love?

I was so pissed off when they said they were going to redefine the boundaries of the Southern Ocean. I used to be able to sail around Cape Leeuwin from Augusta and suddenly BE SAILING IN A DIFFERENT OCEAN!!! And now it's all just going to be the Indian Ocean. No more sailing the great Southern Sea. No more immediate connection to Antarctica. No more zigzagging backwards and forwards across the border.. Friggin killjoys.
posted by Ahab at 6:04 AM on September 21, 2011

There is only one Billy Ocean, and I want him to get out of my dreams and get into my car.
posted by argonauta at 6:05 AM on September 21, 2011 [3 favorites]

Alls I knows is, I love reading Patrick O'Brian's descriptions of the Southern Ocean and the Roaring Forties. It's such a foreign landscape, it might as well be on a different planet.
posted by KokuRyu at 6:10 AM on September 21, 2011

/cartman voice/ I'm Sailing Away!
posted by dabug at 6:12 AM on September 21, 2011 [1 favorite]

It was fun when there were 11, but it felt like the jokes grew a little thin with 12 and 13.
posted by tenzingy at 6:12 AM on September 21, 2011 [1 favorite]

This is actually interesting, especially the school of thought that there are three, the World Ocean, the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.
posted by snofoam at 6:16 AM on September 21, 2011

Here is the line between two oceans (not).
posted by punkfloyd at 6:24 AM on September 21, 2011 [1 favorite]

...Actually, that photo punkfloyd posted is pretty cool.

punk, do you know what that actually is? Two different currents? The edge of a storm?
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:26 AM on September 21, 2011

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
posted by stormpooper at 6:27 AM on September 21, 2011

Reddit says it a line of demarcation between a melting glacier and seawater. Different salinity/density, I think. Interesting comments here.
posted by punkfloyd at 6:30 AM on September 21, 2011

A sea of oceans.
posted by phoque at 6:30 AM on September 21, 2011

Which is the only sea bordering no coastlines?
posted by ZsigE at 6:34 AM on September 21, 2011

The Sargasso Sea ...
posted by woodblock100 at 6:35 AM on September 21, 2011

Quintuple ocean. Oh my god. It's a quintuple ocean all the way! Its so intense! Whoaaa! Oh my god oh my god oh my god. Wooooooooo! Yeah! Look at that! It's A full on quintuple ocean across the globe!

What does this mean? Ohh. Its so beautiful.

*sobs*
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 6:35 AM on September 21, 2011