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Re:Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core by tlb on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:14PM (#7887144)
You dropped some zeros. A billion liters is a cube 100 meters on a side, more like a drop than an ocean.
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Re:Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core by pavement on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:36PM (#7887200)
Wait, you're right. I think I dropped about maybe 4 zeroes off the exponential notation. Strike the "billion" and make it like 10^11th or 10^12th power. Either way, I think the ratios still work.
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Re:Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core by pavement on Saturday June 14, 2014 @12:33AM (#7892074)
...and oh yeah, by the way, my units were the wrong order of magnitude; should've been kiloliters (not just liters), on top of the exponential notation.
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