DESTROY NOAH'S ARK

[Chas]

Seriously? Do you even science?

Where do you think the atmosphere ends up? Underwater?

It's called density. The atmosphere floats above the more dense ocean due to gravity.

forced into outer space. I figure the world holds as much atmosphere as it does because that's about as much as it can. If you push all the air up like that, it gets pushed out of the gravitational field and scatters into space. Not that I have anything hard to back it up. That's just was I think would happen.

No. Forced by what?

All that the water will do is very slightly increase the diameter of the earth by about 2 X 8,848 m(height of Everest). That would be less than a 0.14% increase. The atmosphere will still be held by gravity.

Now either the water already existed on Earth, in which case surface gravity is only barely weaker, or the water was added to Earth, which would make the gravity an eentsy bit greater.

The atmosphere wouldn't go anywhere.