In a message dated 3/3/2006 10:36:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
glennmorton@entouch.net writes:
Please tell me how you get water to fill up to that level without flooding
the entire planet? Do you have a magical wall of water on the south end of the
basin? See the little ascii chart I have at
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/mflood.htm
No, just a very gentle slope.
Alan Hill did the calculations using standard hydrology models and he shows
that it actually does work using reasonable assumptions. As I said before, I
think his assumptions are overly conservative since he didn't include the wind
as a factor in sustaining the water gradient. Wind can indeed sustain a water
gradient. But even without that, it still works. You can have a slope of
water to the mountains of ararat, high enough to land on an actual "mountain"
there, and have this slope of water remain in place for a year according to the
actual calculations and simulations. When the paper comes out, the burden of
proof will be to disprove it. I didn't go through all the calculations so I
have to accept that the model might be wrong. But it does look reasonable.
As i said before, I'm not convinced it **had** to be actually "in" the
mountains of ararat. So that too may be an extra layer of conservatism.
God bless!
Phil Metzger
Received on Sat Mar 4 01:38:09 2006
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