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To: Repeal The 17th

Here’s some cocktail napkin math.

“As large as Florida...” might clock in at about 1/ 1000th of the land mass on earth...probably less..

Ocean mass beats land mass 70/30 so a Florida sized glacier falling into the ocean would amount to little more than a blip. This assumes the Thwaites glacier currently sits on land rather than a portion floating in water currently.

The thickness and density seems another issue since warmth from the earths core appears to be melting ice from below. How much remains ?


80 posted on 09/09/2022 12:32:36 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: chiller

Here’s some cocktail napkin math.

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My version of napkin math to illustrate stupidity:

Surface area of Earth = 197,000,000 square miles
Surface area of Florida = 65,800 square miles

Earth has close to 3000 X surface area of Florida.

If the entire earth is to be covered in a blanket of 16 feet of water, then the depth of the chunk of ice (area of Florida) needs to be 3000 x 16’ = 48,000 feet = 9+ miles thick.

Complete and utter bull crap. Unless of course you believe men can get pregnant.


93 posted on 09/09/2022 1:20:27 PM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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