At 05:01 AM 12/5/02 -0600, The Fool wrote:
Suppose you wanted to calculate the time it would take an even consistent rainfall over the entire surface of the earth to raise the sea level above the level of Mt. Everest (+5 miles or so), what would you need to know about rainfall, volume of the earth, topography of the earth, etc. to make a good first order approximation?
You need an additional 3.7 times the total volume of all the water on Earth, or a sphere of water about 1300 miles in diameter. What you do with the excess when you have finished cleansing the Earth is left as an exercise for the student.
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