Hi all;

David thought I was being sarcastic when I said the ocean was no more important than dew on an apple.

But I was overstating its importance.

Look at the numbers. The earth is (very roughly) 4000 miles in radius and a good sized apple is about 2 inches in radius. If we say the ocean is 4 miles deep (an overstatement) then it's 4/4000 of the radius which is 0.001.

And 0.001 times 2 inches is 0.002 inches.

Now I suggest that dew on an apple is thicker than that by many times. Anybody got a number for dewdrops?

His hypothesis has a number of larger holes. The motion of the Pacific plate(s) is a counterclockwise rotation, not a simple east-west movement. The Atlantic has no seismicity belts on either side to speak of despite the spreading from the mid-atlantic ridge.

And so on and so forth.

Roger