The Ark, the Flooding, and, Earth's Mass ?...

[tmaromine]

Actually if you are in a low flat (eg desert like) region the flood from a mega tsunami could be survived in a boat. Provided it doesn't smash you into anything. If you weren't on anything that floats survival chance would be close to zero.

If you can get your boat into deep ocean before it arrives then you'll barely notice it go by. Except for vicious tidal currents appearing. Not helpful unless you are already there cause they will travel at 1000+kmph

 

Oh'k. Interesting to know. Explains that a boat could survive, but the storey has more than that.

 

Could there at least be an estimate by someone at how much water there would have to be to flood over Everest ; how much weight this water would equal ? I think it's interesting to ponder that it could be enough to somehow, even slightly, affect Earth and its revolution, or its spin... I don't know if it would, but, can it not not ?

[Boerseun]

Right... lessee:

 

You want enough water to cover Everest. Everest is given as 8848 meters above sea level. So what we do is calculate the volume of a sphere of the Earth's sea-level radius + Everest's height, and then subtract Earth's volume at sea level. We'll forget about the continents for now...

 

The average radius of Earth at sea level is given as 6371 km.

The average radius of an Earth flooded to Everest's tip would be 6379.848 km.

 

So what we do is calculate the volume of the latter and subtract the volume of the former.

 

V=4/3*pi*r^3 (my latex sucks, okay)

 

So, when we calculate using the two different radii, and do the subtraction, the difference (the volume of water between sea level and Everest's tip) would work out to about 446,039,121 cubic kilometers of seawater. Now, a cubic meter of seawater weighs about a ton. Not precisely, but good enough.

There are a billion cubic meters in every cubic kilometer. So, if you want the weight needed for Noah's flood, it'll be around 446,039,121,000,000,000 tons.

None of which is around today. That's a heck of a lot of water to have disappeared over the last 6,000 years. But since you asked, there you go.

[tmaromine]

Right... lessee:

 

You want enough water to cover Everest. Everest is given as 8848 meters above sea level. So what we do is calculate the volume of a sphere of the Earth's sea-level radius + Everest's height, and then subtract Earth's volume at sea level. We'll forget about the continents for now...

 

The average radius of Earth at sea level is given as 6371 km.

The average radius of an Earth flooded to Everest's tip would be 6379.848 km.

 

So what we do is calculate the volume of the latter and subtract the volume of the former.

 

V=4/3*pi*r^3 (my latex sucks, okay)

 

So, when we calculate using the two different radii, and do the subtraction, the difference (the volume of water between sea level and Everest's tip) would work out to about 446,039,121 cubic kilometers of seawater. Now, a cubic meter of seawater weighs about a ton. Not precisely, but good enough.

There are a billion cubic meters in every cubic kilometer. So, if you want the weight needed for Noah's flood, it'll be around 446,039,121,000,000,000 tons.

None of which is around today. That's a heck of a lot of water to have disappeared over the last 6,000 years. But since you asked, there you go.

 

Thanks. :hyper:

 

Could a total 446 quadrillion/billiard/pentillion tonnes give the Earth a different spin, or revolution, or something astronomical ? There's no way this happened, but it's captivating to think of how Earth could be affected by all of it, and how then would be different in some way from now if it had occurred.