Thread: All of earth's water into a sphere
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Old 08-24-2012, 01:50 PM
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Excellant point!
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When you say 'spear' do you mean "sphere"? I dont know what you mean by spear, a spear to me is a pointed polearm.
DOH!

Yup, sorry, english is my 2nd language, math is my 1st!

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Would not a better example therefore be the volume of the water compared to the livable surface area?
I agree

And is what I was refering to when I said..

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If they wanted to do a fair and honest job of 'spear' comparisons they should have shown a spear of the ground above sea level (livable area).. Which would have been about 1/4 the size of the water spear..
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