Re: New archaeological evidence casts doubt on mega-tsunami theory of Minoan collapse

From: Martyn Harrison (nospam_at_spammers.of.the.world.unite)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:46:17 GMT

Apparently on date 7 Jan 2005 10:39:46 -0800, "grapheus" <grapheus@www.com>
said:

>Dylan Sung wrote:
>> "grapheus" <grapheus@www.com> wrote in message
>
>Of course, the falling down into the sea of a piece of ice is similar
>to the falling down of a piece of rock.
>With a DIFFERENCE that you omitted to mention : As the DENSITY of ice
>is LESS than 1, contrarily to the density of a rock, the tsunami is
>generally NEGLIGIBLE. Because of what I said at the beginning (YES, we
>are going back to square one, to the point you didn't understand !!!) :
>What COUNTS is the "VOLUME of the WATER which is suddently DISPLACED...

There is a fundamental flaw in your reasoning, which concerns basic physics.

Displacement of water is key here, this is true. How much water is displaced
when you abruptly submerge:

1) 100 cubic meters of ice with a density of 0.99

2) 100 cubic meters of rock with a density of 4.00

?

*Hint*, 100 cubic meters of rock does not displace 400 cubic meters of water.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/sa/SAIRC/1997/50.html

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