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New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed 263

Posted by timothy from the deeper-than-my-love-for-you dept.
Velcroman1 writes with this snippet from Fox News: "Using lead weights and depth sounders, scientists have made surprisingly accurate estimates of the ocean's depths in the past. Now, with satellites and radar, researchers have pinned down a more accurate answer to that age-old query: How deep is the ocean? And how big? As long ago as 1888, John Murray dangled lead weights from a rope off a ship to calculate the ocean's volume — the product of area and mean ocean depth. Using satellite data, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute set out to more accurately answer that question — and found out that it's 320 million cubic miles. And despite miles-deep abysses like the Mariana Trench, the ocean's mean depth is just 2.29 miles, thanks to the varied and bumpy ocean floor."

Comment Re:eMule (Score 1) 483

by zimmo (#10328699) Attached to: Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey
> Suggest you start using eMule, it's great and the developers are good honest folk who seem to be interested only in technical excellence (just read the changelog!).

Yeah. I'm using eMule and I've found it a great program. I find sharing files isn't scooping up too much your internet bandwith if restrict for about 75% of your max upload speed.

I like the idea of sharing files through the net. It doesn't bother me and I'll get usually whatever I need. Leechers just annoy me coz' they don't contribute to system. If everyone are leechers there wouldn't be such a great network as eD2K is.

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