Friday, January 2, 2009

Drumroll, please.....

The answer is 5,108,000,000,000,000 gallons, assuming the following:
1. There is an equal distribution of rainfall over the entire area of the river basin.
2. There is no rainwater lost to evaporation.
3. All things are in perfect alignment in the universe, meaning, I'm sure there are other variables we didn't control for, but this is the answer the 9-year old was looking for.

I will also clarify that this is spread over 2.7+ million square miles of river/basin.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow! You guys are intimitadingly smart! Is that even a word? See what I mean?