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2015-11-09 07:12:06 Post No. 55297650
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2015-11-09 07:12:06
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Hey /pol/! Let's do some math for fun! It was always a favorite subject of mine, because it was like a puzzle that you had to figure out. But the nice thing about it, is that it had the possibility of giving an objectively true answer. I'm not the best at Math though so help me out.
>The total volume of all the Great Lakes combined in North America is 2.3 x 10^16 Liters, there is 100 cm^3 per liter, so that is 2.3 x 10^18 cm^3 of water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes#Statistics
>The surface area of all the Oceans combined on the planet is 3.6 x 10^8 km^2, there are 10^6 m^2 per km^2 so that is 3.6 x 10^14 m^2, since there are 10^4 cm^2 per m^2, the surface area of all the oceans is 3.6 x 10^18 cm^2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean
>if the total volume of all the Great Lakes combined is 2.3 x 10^18 cm^3 and the total surface area of all the Oceans combined is 3.6 x 10^18 cm^2, if you dumped all the water in combined Great Lakes into the Oceans at once and assumed that all the world's shorelines rose straight vertically, directly perpendicular to the ground then the water level of all the oceans would rise by .639 cm globally.
Anyone else have any math they want to do? Or maybe someone wants to check my math. Because while sometimes people can perform math incorrectly, math itself can't be wrong.
