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To: EEGator

Well, first I assumed the earth’s radius is about 4,000 miles (got that number from google).

I subtracted the volume of a sphere of radius 4000 miles from the volume of a sphere of 4002 miles (water two miles deep on existing surface).

This came to about 402,000,000 cubic miles.

Then I made a mistake converting to cubic feet, and SHOULD have gotten 5.922EE19 cubic feet, which at 7.48 gallons/cubic foot would result in 4.42EE20 Gallons, instead of my previous answer.

So, the “correct” answer would actually be even more than my original computation indicated.


32 posted on 12/18/2014 12:17:17 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: WayneS

So, a lot of water...

:)


33 posted on 12/18/2014 12:21:41 PM PST by EEGator
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