By “smoothing out” I mean flattening all mountains and filling all trenches so that the entire earth has exactly the same radius everwhere. Water naturally spreads out equally on such a surface, so how high would the water level be?
By “smoothing out” I mean flattening all mountains and filling all trenches so that the entire earth has exactly the same radius everwhere. Water naturally spreads out equally on such a surface, so how high would the water level be?
I’d think not a lot higher than currently.
Thos says average land elevation is 840m https://www.studycountry.com/wiki/what-is-the-average-elevation-of-the-world
Spread that over the other 70% of the surface and your probably down at a 3-400 hundred metres you floated it on top of the sea. Which i think is approximately the same thing if the land displaces its volume equally. I guess there’d be a decent amount of compression though so, my guess is not much more than a few hundred metres.
Anyway, I’m sure the good people of the Netherlands will find a way to foil your dastardly scheme.