How many trillions of cubic meters of water would it actually take to flood (all mountain tops too)all Earth?

Question

And is there that much water available on earth? even with all ice melted?

Answer 1

The amount of erosion that would be caused by all of that water coming down over the course of 40 days...just boggles the mind...I can't imagine how it is feasible...

Edit: Okay, so I figured out, by determining the volume of Earth as a sphere (taking something known as the average radius of Earth that I found lying around Google, using the value of 6356.75 km), and finding the difference between that volume, and the volume of the Earth if its sea level was at the same height as Mt. Everest (which was giving the sphere an increased radius of 6365.6 km to account for Everest's height of 8850 meters, or 8.850 km), that there is a difference of 4,500,159,343 cubic meters...take that for what you will...

Edit Edit: Heh heh...wow...umm...that was cubic KILOMETERS, not meters...(which means I had only 1/(1,000,000,000) of the actual answer). So it should be 4,500,159,343,000,000,000 meters...in other words, 4,500,000 trillion cubic meters or more in terms of your original answer...

Answer 2

Since the others have assumed you are talking about the flood, I will too!

According to the original Sumerian Stories of the Deluge (Written some 3000 years before the old testament) it was a mixture of a mega tsunami, caused by the Southern ice cap slipping into the sea, followed by rain. This would be more plausible than just rain:

"Then there was darkness in daytime, and at night the Moon as though by a monster was swallowed.
The Earth began to shake, by a netforce before unknown it was agitated.
In the glow of dawn, a black cloud arose from the horizon,
The morning’s light to darkness changed, as though by death’s shadow veiled.
Then the sound of a rolling thunder boomed, lightnings the skies lit up.......

In Shurubak, eighteen leagues away, the bright eruptions by
Ninagal were seen:
Button up! Button up the hatch! Ninagal to Ziusudra shouted.
Together the trapdoor that the hatch concealed they pulled down; Watertight, enclosed completely, was the boat; inside not a ray of light penetrated.

On that day, on that unforgettable day, the Deluge with a roar
began; In the Whiteland, at the Earth’s bottom, the Earth’s foundations were shaking; Then with a roar to a thousand thunders equal, off its foundations the icesheet slipped,
One sheet of ice into another icesheet was smashing,
The Whiteland’s surface like a broken eggshell was crumbling.
All at once a tidal wave arose, the very skies was the wall of waters reaching.
A storm, its ferocity never before seen, at the Earth’s bottom began to howl, Its winds the wall of water were driving, the tidal wave northward was spreading;
Northward was the wall of waters onrushing, the Abzu(Africa) lands it was reaching.
Therefrom toward the settled lands it traveled, the Edin (Iraq) it overwhelmed.
When the tidal wave, the wall of waters, Shurubak reached,
The boat of Ziusudra the tidal wave from its moorings lifted,
Tossed it about, like a watery abyss the boat it swallowed.
Though completely submerged, the boat held firm, not a drop of water into it did enter.
After the immense tidal wave that over the Earth swept,
The sluices of heaven opened, a downpour from the skies upon the Earth was unleashed.
For seven days the waters from above with the waters of the Great Below were mingled;
Then the wall of water, its limits reaching, its onslaught ceased,
But the rains from the skies for forty more days and nights
continued.

From their perches the Gods looked down: Where there were
dry lands, now was a sea of water, And where mountains once to the heavens their peaks raised, Their tops now like islands were in the waters;
And all that on the dry lands was living in the avalanche of waters perished.
Then, as in the Beginning, the waters to their basins were gathered, Waving back and forth, day by day the water level came lower.
Then, forty days after the Deluge over the Earth swept, the rains also stopped.
After the forty days Ziusudra the boat’s hatch opened, his
whereabouts to survey.
A bright day it was, a gentle breeze was blowing;
All alone, with no other sign of life, the boat upon a vast sea was lolling."

Answer 3

There is as much water on earth, to cover a spherical earth to a depth of about 4000 meters...

Given that the mountains would not have been as high and the oceans valleys as low during pre-flood times... It is conceivable that earth could be covered by water...

Journey Well...

Answer 4

Way too much. There's nowhere near enough water to flood the Earth, and even if there was the sheer energy released from that much coming down would have steamed Noah and all of the animals.

Answer 5

I make it 1.006 x 10^12, at a rough estimate.

Answer 6

well if you took all the water in the atmosphere, the ice caps, and all the oceans, you would have plenty. I researched this two years ago.

Answer 7

maybe there were no mountains before...


meh, why am i trying to defend christians' absurd stories?

just bored maybe.

Answer 8

Mmm, why don't you do that calculation and get back to us. You do know advanced math, don't you??

Answer 9

Noah knows it real well..!!