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September 6th 05, 01:46 AM

wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote:

The water came from two sources. One was fresh water and the other salt
water from a storm surge. Water that was once some place else came to be
deposited in New Orleans and the world has suffered no increase or
decrease in the amount of water that exists in the world.

Do you know this from first-hand experience, or what?

The world

covering biblical flood is quite a different matter.

The known world in the biblical flood...
A huge amount of
water that doesn't exist here toady would have to had existed at that
time.

Why?

It would have had to be someplace else before the flood, and then
after the flood, it would have had to go some place else.

Much like the water in New Orleans. It wasn't there two weeks ago.
Three months from now it will be somewhere else. Will you be able to
account for all of the water then?

Hang on a second, Brian. The amount of water needed to raise the level
of water coverage to 29,035 feet above sea level does not simply come
and go like the water that flooded New Orleans and Mississippi and
Alabama. How much water do you figure that is?

Another interesting question:

During the rain and flood period, the ocean levels would have to raise
by many 10's of thousands of feet. What effect would this have on the
rotational velocity of the earth? Same thing when the water receded.

Probably rotate faster as a water covered earth should have far less
frictional drag than a rough land/mountain covered earth. If you
discount the atmosphere.

Assuming that the mass of the Earth was neither increased nor decreased
during the event, the rotation would slow down as the flood progressed,
ant then sped up as the water evaporated.

But given that no amount of water that could cover the entire earth can
be found today, the earth would speed up in rotation as the water went
to wherever it went. Like the skater who spins with he arms stretched
out, then pulls them in and speeds up. Should work that was AFAIK.

- Mike KB3EIA -