This is my first thread so I'm open to any suggestions.
I'm interested in the rate of rainfall during the flood. This question will invloves some math and we will have to develop a forumla or two.
Specifically, I would like to know how much water it would take to cover the entire earth from current sea level to the peak of Mount Everest. Then if we can take this volume of water and find an average rate of fall per hour over 40 days and 40 nights (960 hours).
Everest is 8,848 meters (29,028 feet) tall. (Mount Ararat is 5,137 metres (16,854 ft) at its peak.)
The diameter of Earth is 7,926 mi (12,760 km). 29.2% of the Earth is land and the remaining 70.8% is covered with water. The total surface area of the earth is approximately 197,000,000 square miles (509,600,000 square kilometers). I do not know the average elevation of land on earth and this seems important - if we cannot find an average elevation we may have to just assign a number here, such as 100 meters.
We will need to find the volume of the earth covered with water, subtract the volume of the Earth without the floodwater, and this will give us the total volume of water rained down during the flood. Then we can divide the total amount of water dropped in the flood by the number of hours that it rained.
If we find that the ran fell at a rate close to 9 meters/hour uniformly accross the entire earth, what does this mean? In terms that a layman can understand, was being under rain of the great flood closer to standing under a shower or under niagra falls?
Then finally, can a wooden roof survive this type of beating for 40 days and nights?