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To: furball4paws

It is amusing and instructive to work out the total requirement for water to flood from current sea-level to the peak of Everest. When I did this exercise on the back of an envelope I came up with the requirement being a sphere of water around 1200 miles in diameter.


1,021 posted on 12/18/2005 7:42:05 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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I didn't subtract out the mountain ranges, but we're in the same ballpark.


1,037 posted on 12/18/2005 8:21:57 AM PST by furball4paws (The new elixir of life - dehydrated toad urine.)
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