The Far East (Religion)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, September 18, 2010, 05:46 (5178 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

In the original thread where I posted the article, there where two links, the second article, at the end talks about the researches estimates of more than 5 times the current water content of every ocean being trapped in the mantle.-The mantle makes up 49% of the volume of the entire earth. If the entire mantle contains 5x as much water as the surface, we're only missing one important piece of information. How much of the mantle would have to be ejected in order to account for an increase in sea level rise of 2.2 times the current volume of water? -The article you cited said at highest, the main mineral of the mantle (perovskite) can contain 0.2% (one-twentieth of one percent) water. So that means, for every cubic km^3 of perovskite, we can extract 0.2% of its volume in water. Perovskite 's mass is 135.96g/mol. So that means, 0.27g of water is extracted from each mol of perovskite. (Using a 1g = 1ml = 1cc conversion)-We already know that for each 67m sea level rise, we need 24M water. 
The mass of the earth is 5.9742 × 10^24kg.-The mass of the mantle is 49% of the mass of the earth: 2.9871 x 10^24. Therefore the total mass of all the water in the mantle at 5x is -0.2e-2*(2.9871*10^24-2.9871*10^24*0.27e-1)/(2.9871*10^24)*5 = .00973%-of the total mass of the mantle. (technically I should exclude the water that already exists on the surface, as well as the atmosphere from the mass, but I'm trying to give your scenario the best possible opportunity of success.) -We've established in the best case that the primary mineral of the mantle contains 0.2% water, and at 5x (and some intense looking math) that it amounts to 1% of the total mass of the mantle. That's .5% the mass of the earth.-The ratio of nonwater to water mass is 1000:1 in the mantle. -It should be pretty clear, that to even get .22 of that water out (the previous calculation to cover everest was 2.2x) we would need to eject nearly half of the mantle to get that water. This becomes even less likely if water is stored in finite perovskite reservoirs all over the world, like in the original article.-[EDITED]-As for your other question on how the writers of the Bible had access to that information; cultural transmission beginning at a time before the founding of the Sumerian religion--the earliest known culture with a flood myth.

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