Subj : Re: The Worldwide Flood
To   : sn0w0wl
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Sun Oct 09 2005 10:38:00

  Re: Re: The Worldwide Flood
  By: sn0w0wl to Finnigann on Sun Oct 09 2005 02:33:00

 > > The bible on the other hand states that the world was covered by the
 > > rains... 40 days worth.
 > >
 > > Now there's daily minimum required load of BS.
 > 
 > I don't know...


Mt. Everest is 8848 meters high, and to 'cover the earth' the water level 
would have to rise that far.  In 40 days.  That is 348345.76 inches of 
rain, in 3,456,000 seconds, or one inch in 9.92 seconds -- for sake of 
argument, an inch of rain in 10 seconds.  Falling continuously, over the 
entire surface of the globe, non-stop, for 40 days.

I've experienced flooding due to rain, and the rain-guages said 19" in 
four hours.  Believe me, that was a deluge.  I can not concieve what it 
would be like to experience rainfall that was 76 times worse.

Even if this sort of rainfall could happen, I have to consider the 
question of where the water would come from.  The mean equatorial radius 
(IIRC) is 6,378.135 Km or 6,378,135 meters.  This makes it's volume come 
out to 19,069,835,635,048,911,969,436.32168012249824464207 cubic meters.  
Increasing the radius by the height of Everest, we get an increase in 
volume due to precipitation, so by subtracting, we can arrive at a volume 
of rain that must fall:  79,473,427,281,179,956,246.68738205131096825672 
cubic meters (or metric tonnes, depending on your point of view) of water.  
Or slightly less, because Everest and the other land masses themselves 
would make up some of the volumetric space, but I would have to consider 
it to be a very small adjustment.

So where is it to come from?  Does this amount of water exist in the 
atmosphere as free vapour, available to make rain?  I wouldn't like to say 
not, but I wouldn't like to take it for granted either.

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