Too Many Meteor Strikes in 6k Years

TSUNAMIS are created by movements of the sea floor. Rocks hitting water create GRAVITY WAVES. Gravity waves are felt by ships. With the Earth entirely covered by water, the only thing to dissipate gravity waves would be the internal friction in water. How large a rock would be required to create a gravity wave that could circumnavigate the globe before dissipating is WAY beyond my ability to calculate.My understanding is that most of the damage caused by large meteors is due to the shock wave from a large object moving through the atmosphere at a high speed, not by the impact.This message has been edited by FormalistAesthete, 05-25-2005 07:18 PM

What is the reference for the supposed change in climate after the Flood? I took a quick glance at my (Revised Standard Version) Bible and saw no mention of anything about climate change, or even changes in vegetation.

My bad. The proper designation for waves created by rocks (or other objects) breaching the surface is "surface gravity wave".Does a submerged submarine leave the same sort of wake at the surface as a surface submarine does?This message has been edited by FormalistAesthete, 05-25-2005 07:59 PM

Maybe I should just delete my whole post. I was just informed by someone who actually knows what he's talking about that my claim about the shock wave of a meteor passing thru the atmosphere causing most of the damage is WRONG.

The Bible says that the water was deep enough to cover the highest mountains to a depth of 15 cubits. Since the flood occurred after the 6 days of creation, this means that the topography of the Earth must have been essentially the same as it is today. Mt. Everest is about 8850 meters above sea level. Even allowing for the climate to have been warm enough that there weren't any glaciers or ice sheets, Mt. Everest still would have been nearly 8800 meters above sea level if the amount of water was the same as it is today. Covering the entire Earth with 8800 meters of water would require more than double the amount of water than is currently on the Earth. What happened to all the water that has vanished?Covering the Earth with 8800 meters of water in 40 days would have required rainfall rates averaging more than 350 inches per hour over the entire Earth.

I apologize if I strayed a little off topic, but it seemed to flow naturally from the question about the depth of the Flood. The impact calculator that someone posted a link to didn't compute wave heights, but one would think that a meteor that created an impact crater more than 100 km in diameter on land would generate waves large enough to swamp a ship even thousands of miles away if it landed in an ocean, especially if there was no land mass to damp the waves. But this is all "hypothetical" anyway.