If you consider the spherical shape of the earth and the gravity not pointing in the same direction everywhere, I think it will be different (but I did no calculations). In the extreme case, when all the surface of a water planet is covered by ice, the ice will not sink at all because the gravity cancels out everywhere. When this ice block melts, the water level will rise... Dirk Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com>@mailman.xmission.com am 30.09.2005 05:52:51 Bitte antworten an math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Gesendet von: math-fun-bounces+dirk.lattermann=bgs-ag.de@mailman.xmission.com An: dasimov@earthlink.net, math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Kopie: Thema: Re: [math-fun] NYTimes: melting ice cubes cause water to rise ? That was the point of my original posting -- the NYTimes thought that melting floating ice would raise the water level -- they were obviously wrong. At 04:09 PM 9/29/2005, dasimov@earthlink.net, math-fun wrote:

(So what's the business about floating ice raising water levels when it melts?)

--Dan

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