On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:13:22 -0500, John E. Rylander wrote:
>SJ>Since Hsu says it would take "more than 100 years" to fill the
>>Mediterranean "at a rate of 10,000 cubic miles per year" (Hsu, 1972,
>>p33), to fill it "in a year" would require a rate of 1,000,000 cubic
>>miles per year! That is 2,739.7 cubic miles a day, 114.1 cubic miles
>>an hour or 1.9 cubic miles a second.
JR>This is a very clearly presented objection. For that, Stephen, I am
>genuinely grateful -- this is the style of presentation we need to make
>progress.
Thanks. But I guess this means that all my other posts are not "clearly
presented"? :-)
JR>But there's an -extremely- basic error in your "coup de grace" posts: how
>many seconds are there in an hour? You assume 60 rather than 3600.
>
>Doing your math correctly, the result would be .03 mi^3/s, not 1.9 mi^3/s.
>
>You might not want to talk about death blows until you have a third party
>check your arguments.
Yes. I didn't realise I had sent it and I asked my son to check it and he
found the error! When I went back to correct it, I found I had already
sent it. By I have already sent a correction which still is a "death blow"
to the 5.5 mya Mediterranean Flood theory.
Steve
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