Voyage to the bottom of the world's deepest lake

Russia Today ^ | July 27, 2008 | unattributed

[aruanan]

23 trillion cubic meters (~20% of world's fresh water) compared with 440 trillion cubic feet for Lake superior (~10% of world's fresh water).

1 cubic meter = 35.314 cubic feet.

So 440 trillion cubic feet = 12.459 cubic meters or about half of 23 trillion cubic meters.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I agree.

[SunkenCiv]

I think a cube root is part of SpongeBob’s family tree, or somethin’.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks again to KoRn for the updated story link. Click the pic.

[Old Professer]

This whole thing is about the author stating cubic meters when it would seem obvious that he meant a much larger number; since metric measurements are denoted with common prefixes we feel compelled to think he meant kilometers.

To appreciate a volume one needs to be able to make a picture ; if we have a 100 cu ft regrigerator in the shape of a cube we intuitively recognize that it is constructed with 10 foot sides, tops and bottoms or that we could stuff 100 one cu ft boxes in it.

[Old Professer]

I can’t believe I did that!!!Substitute 1,000 for 100.

If this lake were a pool having 23,000 square kilometers as its surface and a depth of one kilometer, would you agree that it contained 23,000 cubic kilometers?

[Nowhere Man]

Maybe they will use the flying sub. B-)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I agree, but my comments were based on a Google search, and all of the links said thzt Lake Baikal has a volume of 23,000 cubic kilometes.