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From: jgk@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Joe Keane)
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Subject: Re: The Loch Ness Monster
Keywords: Nessie Loch Ness passages
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Date: 4 Aug 88 03:21:04 GMT
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In article <7497@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wen-king@cit-vlsi.UUCP (Wen-King Su) writes:
>Thanks for the number.  If sea wather is 1.025 times heavier than fresh
>water, then Loch Ness can be in equilibrium at 52 feet above sea level
>if the hole is 2028 feet below sea level.

We don't need equilibrium.  If the hole were above that depth, fresh
water would flow out of the loch.  This isn't a problem as long as the
flow is less than that of the various rivers which feed the loch.  So
let's go over there and measure the amount of water flowing in and out
of the loch by the expected routes.  If there were a discrepancy, we'd
have evidence for the hole.

--Joe