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To: Triffin who wrote (477320)3/18/2012 4:33:17 PM
From: the_wheel3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 794001
 
Interesting problem, though involves only multiplication and division.

Area of earth = 510 million sq km = 5.1 * 10**14 m3

1 barrel = .159 m3

31 billion barrels / yr = 3.1 * 10**10 barrel/yr
= 4.9 * 10**9 m3/yr

which you divide is about 10**-5 m thickness on surface

which is 10**-2mm

which is 1/20th the thickness of a human hair

hardly "knee-deep"

still would make a nice slick for that rainbow diffraction of light

and would probably give a good lube for mother earth.
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