I was close enough lol. I need to go back to school desperately haha, can’t wait for monday
My math wasn’t way off actually, I accidentally calculated at as if it were square and not cubic
Finnegan’s Wake… Most ridiculous and difficult piece of literature.
So if it all pools on the ground, you have 3.79 L over (1.61 km * 1.61 km) 2.59 square kilometres. One litre is 1000 mL which is 1000 cubic centimetres which is 0.001 cubic metres. One square kilometre is 1,000,000 square metres. Thus we have 0.00379 cubic metres of water spread over 2,590,000 square metres. 0.00379 m^3 / 2 590 000 m^2 = 1.46 x 10^-9 metres. The water would be 1.46 nanometers deep.
I’m tabbing back and forth between here and a phone calculator, not writing things down properly so I might have made a mistake. Easier on paper. But still interesting.
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Excellent exposition of your work method, young man.
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Aug. 13th mind blowing random thought of the day: A person exhales air at around 15 mph.
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For nearly sixty-two years, Mount Washington, New Hampshire held the world record for the fastest wind gust ever recorded on the surface of the Earth: 231 miles per hour, recorded April 12, 1934 by Mount Washington Observatory staff.
The Mount Washington record was toppled in 1996 when an unmanned instrument station in Barrow Island, Australia recorded a new record of 253 miles per hour during Tropical Cyclone Olivia.
Damn. I’m gonna have to get me a new tee shirt now.
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That is fast… I remember when I was in 1st grade there was a crazy huge wind/rain storm. My brother and I took our bikes and pushed them to the end of our road and then just lifted our feet. The wind pushed us down the road. Then back against the wind to the end of the road again. Great memories.
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We were at the top of Mount Washington one time, did the cog (here’s a tip. Don’t open the windows or the car fills up with coal smoke.) anyway, my, of course, fearless son who was 12 was jumping around. And it was very very windy and I was terrified. I thought I was going to get blown away never mind my 12 years old.
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Aug.14th mind blowing random thought of the day: Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano.
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In 1971, the Boston Patriots became known as the New England Patriots.
Jim Plunket was the quarterback.
They went 6-8
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Aug. 15th mind blowing random thought of the day: Antarctica contains as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.
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Volume, area, or mass?
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from an article: The two Antarctic ice sheets cover all but 2.4 percent of its 14 million square kilometers. At its thickest point the ice sheet is 4,776 meters deep. It averages 2,160 meters thick, making Antarctica the highest continent. This ice is 90 percent of all the world’s ice and 70 percent of all the world’s fresh water.
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Aug. 16th mind blowing random thought of the day: A “twit” is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish.
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Well there’s something to add to my knowledge about a goldfish now 
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Goldfish have a memory span of about 3 seconds. See? Your knowledge of goldfish is becoming expansive!
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A related add on to this mind blowing random thought - in Chinese Medicine, when a woman is pregnant, technically it’s considered a “phlegm ball”!
Aug. 17th mind blowing random thought of the day: Before battle, opposing Ancient Chinese warriors would engage in a juggling contest in order to show off their skills to their enemies.
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