Ali, Saqib wrote: >> Noah didn't argue with his neighbors, either. >> > the difference is that it was revealed on prophet Noah. > Hmmm. I thought the difference was that Dan's claim is sound conjecture, while Noah is fiction (or allegory if you want to dignify it). But either way, what did *not* happen is the world entirely covered with water. Kevin Costner not withstanding, there is not enough water to do the job. If you melted every drop and dumped it in the sea, the sea level would rise about 80 meters http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/
That's enough to devastate most major cities in the world, and would turn the Mississippi river delta into the Gulf of Mississipi, and even flood Paris. But it is not enough to flood even St. Louis, and Zurich is quite safe. For more interesting data on global flooding, here's a fun mash up http://flood.firetree.net/ although it only goes to 14m of flooding. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://crispincowan.com/~crispin CEO, Mercenary Linux http://mercenarylinux.com/ Itanium. Vista. GPLv3. Complexity at work _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
