I have done the maths to save you time, but if you wish to do it yourself then here are the basic facts for you to work out the volume of the biblical deluge water. Yes I know the biblical story was plagiarised from Tablet XI of the Babylonian translation of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamish, which the Hebrew scribe exaggerated beyond madness, but there is no harm in doing a bit of maths for fun:
Earth’s mean diameter: 12,742 kms
Earth’s surface area: 510,064,472 square kms
Land mass area: 148,939,063 square kms
Land mean height: 840 metres.
Height of Mount Everest: 8,848 metres
Height of Mount Ararat: 5,160 metres.
Height of my bungalow: 7.5 metres
Height of land with all mountains squashed flat: 840 metres
Rainwater density: 1000 kg per cubic metre
Air density (at STP): 1.248 kg per cubic metre
Saturation point of air (at 100% RH): 4.84 grams of water vapour per cubic metre of dry air
If,, according to the Old Testament, “all the mountains were covered”:
Volume of water to cover Mount Everest: 4,394,212,229 cubic kilometres
(3.2 times more water than there is in all the oceans of the world)
Mass of air supporting Noah’s rain-cloud: 1,131,782,406,930,000,000 tons
Atmospheric pressure in Noah’s time: 1,414 tons per square inch
Or if only Mount Ararat was covered:
Volume of water to cover Mount Ararat: 2,634,064,905 cubic kilometres
(1.8 times more water than there is in all the oceans of the world)
Mass of air supporting Noah’s rain-cloud: 646,211,707,572,000,000 tons
Atmospheric pressure in Noah’s time: 807 tons per square inch
Or if the deluge water only covered the top of my bungalow:
Volume of water to cover my bungalow: 432,337,146 cubic kilometres
(22.4% more water than there is in all the oceans of the world)
Mass of air supporting Noah’s rain-cloud: 79,130,338,904,856,400,000 tons
Atmospheric pressure in Noah’s time: 98.9 tons per square inch
Or if the deluge water covered a dry land with all the mountains squashed flat:
Volume of water to cover a billiard ball Earth: 428,510,649 cubic kilometres
(22.1% more water than there is in all the oceans of the world)
Mass of air supporting Noah’s rain-cloud: 78,144,778,781,276,400,000 tons
Atmospheric pressure in Noah’s time: 97.3 tons per square inch
Please answer these simple questions, and no miracles please, because that would be childish:
1) Where has Noah’s deluge water gone?
2) How did Noah, and the rest of the animal kingdom, manage to stand an atmospheric pressure of: 1,414 or 807 or 98.9 or even 97.3 tons on every square inch of their bodies. For your information it is now merely 0.00656 tons per square inch, or, if you prefer, 14.7 pounds per square inch in Imperial Units. Oy Veigh
Earth’s mean diameter: 12,742 kms
Earth’s surface area: 510,064,472 square kms
Land mass area: 148,939,063 square kms
Land mean height: 840 metres.
Height of Mount Everest: 8,848 metres
Height of Mount Ararat: 5,160 metres.
Height of my bungalow: 7.5 metres
Height of land with all mountains squashed flat: 840 metres
Rainwater density: 1000 kg per cubic metre
Air density (at STP): 1.248 kg per cubic metre
Saturation point of air (at 100% RH): 4.84 grams of water vapour per cubic metre of dry air
If,, according to the Old Testament, “all the mountains were covered”:
Volume of water to cover Mount Everest: 4,394,212,229 cubic kilometres
(3.2 times more water than there is in all the oceans of the world)
Mass of air supporting Noah’s rain-cloud: 1,131,782,406,930,000,000 tons
Atmospheric pressure in Noah’s time: 1,414 tons per square inch
Or if only Mount Ararat was covered:
Volume of water to cover Mount Ararat: 2,634,064,905 cubic kilometres
(1.8 times more water than there is in all the oceans of the world)
Mass of air supporting Noah’s rain-cloud: 646,211,707,572,000,000 tons
Atmospheric pressure in Noah’s time: 807 tons per square inch
Or if the deluge water only covered the top of my bungalow:
Volume of water to cover my bungalow: 432,337,146 cubic kilometres
(22.4% more water than there is in all the oceans of the world)
Mass of air supporting Noah’s rain-cloud: 79,130,338,904,856,400,000 tons
Atmospheric pressure in Noah’s time: 98.9 tons per square inch
Or if the deluge water covered a dry land with all the mountains squashed flat:
Volume of water to cover a billiard ball Earth: 428,510,649 cubic kilometres
(22.1% more water than there is in all the oceans of the world)
Mass of air supporting Noah’s rain-cloud: 78,144,778,781,276,400,000 tons
Atmospheric pressure in Noah’s time: 97.3 tons per square inch
Please answer these simple questions, and no miracles please, because that would be childish:
1) Where has Noah’s deluge water gone?
2) How did Noah, and the rest of the animal kingdom, manage to stand an atmospheric pressure of: 1,414 or 807 or 98.9 or even 97.3 tons on every square inch of their bodies. For your information it is now merely 0.00656 tons per square inch, or, if you prefer, 14.7 pounds per square inch in Imperial Units. Oy Veigh
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