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I don't know what to do with these numbers. I can relate to our ocean in some way, 2 times, 5 times, maybe 10 times the amount of water but higher numbers are t
by sek 15y ago
I don't know what to do with these numbers. I can relate to our ocean in some way, 2 times, 5 times, maybe 10 times the amount of water but higher numbers are too much for me.
They should just use liter instead.
- 1880 15y agoEarth holds about 1.26x10^21 liters (source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question157.htm http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophys...). So 140 trillion times that would be 1.764x10^35, or about 176 decillion liters. I don't know what to do with these numbers either.
- brass_cannon 15y agoGiven that the difference between our calculations is a result of the margin of error in determining the Earth's ocean's volume, I wonder what the margin of error is for NASA's measurement.
- brass_cannon 15y ago1.918 * 10^35 cubic liters [1] [1] http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/SyedQadri.shtml http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/SyedQadri.shtml
- Cushman 15y agoCan anyone come up with a good comparison for this? A sphere the size of Mercury's orbit is an order too large (~ 1.4e36L according to Wolfram Alpha). Edit: Of course Mercury's orbit isn't spherical, but we're talking ballpark here :P
- brass_cannon 15y agoI like the idea of using Mercury's orbit as a comparison. Some more fodder: Just over 13,583,569.4 times the volume of the Sun. [2] [2] http://www.smartconversion.com/otherInfo/Volume_of_planets_and_the_Sun.aspx http://www.smartconversion.com/otherInfo/Volume_of_planets_a...