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Originally Posted by Puckin' Rights!
Mathematically speaking, how much water would you get if it rained for 40 days/nights without pause and how much would it weigh?
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Well, the heaviest rainfall ever was the 2,493mm that fell in 48 hours in Cherrapunji, India. That's 1,246.5 mm each day.
Assuming the Biblical flood was a kind of magical, never-ending rain, maintaining this peak rainfall for 40 days would result in 49,860mm of rain, or 49.8 meters.
The surface area of the earth is 510 million square km, and because I suck at math I'm going to discount all surface features and assume the earth is perfectly flat, and also nicely square.
This nicely flat square earth would be 2,258,317 meters on each side. This comes out to a volume of 2.5 x10^14 cubic meters of water, which is also its weight in metric tons.
There's probably a mistake in there somewhere which someone who's better than me at math could figure out.