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Post by anonymoushacker on Feb 25, 2014 1:20:54 GMT -5
A tonne is metric to it equals 1000 kgs or at least it does in Australia does it weigh something else, in other countries? I didn't think it was imperial.
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Post by anonymoushacker on Feb 25, 2014 1:25:29 GMT -5
I have a headache from looking at the math. You've got some real problems here. For example, you say, "0.0000001 km2= 1 metre" Whoa!!! Way too many zeroes there! Like 4 too many. A meter is 1/1000th of a km. So it's .001. And then you inexplicable sidestep from metric to imperial by using tonnes instead of kilograms With ships, displacement in kg is vastly different than tonnage, which refers to volume or capacity. A cubic meter of saltwater at some salinity and temperature weighs 1025 kg. So already we have an understatement by a factor of ten thousand or so. And you say the "average cruise ship weighs 100,000 tons. Only the absolute largest ships in the world, the Oasis class ships, approach that figure. See, If Royal Caribbean builds it, 6,400 could come, Boston Globe (February 7, 2006). The Titanic was about half that amount. So figure an average displacement of 60,000 tons. So now you don't need 250 cruise ships as you said. You need about 6 million cruise ships. And even at that, it's not that simple. As the water rises, the surface area of the ocean gets larger. Of course the depth of this new surface area is not more than 1 meter, but it is still a substantial increase in volume, given the long shorelines of all the world's oceans. So if 1000kgs equals 1 tonne then i was right and you are out by 2 kgs. I also left the Archimedes principle in there for you which states about weight not volume.
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Post by anonymoushacker on Feb 25, 2014 1:25:41 GMT -5
The land doesn't rise continents are not islands are they. They are connected to the crust, not floating on water. Is this right?
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Post by agentmulder on Feb 25, 2014 1:38:09 GMT -5
Here in Germany we use the metric system and 1 tonne equals 1000kg. The word 'tonne' originates in the German language. To make clear that you mean 1000kg you can also speak of a metric tonne.
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Post by anonymoushacker on Feb 25, 2014 4:31:20 GMT -5
Thanks for the clarification, next time I will use metric tonne so as not to confuse all the yankees, (yankees meant friendly not derrogative)
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Post by hitman on Feb 25, 2014 4:43:34 GMT -5
i would think that all the ships in the world would be to the ocean, like a frozen pea would be to a bath.
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Post by anonymoushacker on Feb 25, 2014 5:06:31 GMT -5
And you can still think that if you want, no one is stopping you. I didn't know if I'm right or wrong, thats why it's a theory. It may be tho that as we got hungrier we made bigger peas!
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Post by wonderqueen on Feb 25, 2014 5:20:35 GMT -5
That is the most sensible response to this thread yet. All the boats in the world...wouldnt raise the levels in the oceans enough to notice.
And since everyone's talking math...deduct and average just the boats in DRYDOCK or taken out of service for a day or month or permanently all around the earth. That would produce a variable ever-changing around the world, each day, on each sea, river, ocean.
Between the ones ON them...and the ones taken OUT of them every day...I think we'd break even. Take a bath? Displace the water. Get out of the bath? Level returns to starting point. Same with ships.
Now if we were adding and adding and adding to the amount of them on and in the seas..without the thousands of them being taken out each day as well? I think we'd break even.
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Post by voltaire on Feb 25, 2014 5:32:45 GMT -5
Wow.... That is something that never crossed my mind before. Great imagination coming up with this theory.
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Post by anonymoushacker on Feb 25, 2014 5:55:01 GMT -5
Yeah I know its not as exciting as Aliens or the world heating up. I'm sorry for that not all conspiracies are grade A movie stuff tho'.
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