(November 5, 2023 at 10:33 am)Jackalope Wrote:(November 5, 2023 at 10:04 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Your numbers are too small, because as the water gets deeper, the surface gets larger in a spherical and not orthogonal manner, and the sphere of the Earth with 8km of water is now 16 km wider in diameter.
Seems to me the simple calculation would be
(4/3 pi (r + d) ^ 3) - (4/3 pi r ^ 3)
Where r = radius of the earth at sea level and d is the additional depth of the water.
It’s too early for maths.
Boru
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