I had a funny thought during lunch today.
"40'000 Leagues Under the Sea" doesn't add up.
http://www.rain.org/ocean/ocean-studies-challenger-deep-mariana-trench.html
The deepest part of the world's oceans is the Mariana Trench which reaches as far as 10'923m, which if one does the math using 1.6km to the mile and 3 miles to the league, is actually only about 2.275625 leagues. It's just a tad shallow. This is all relative of course.
Besides, giant squid have been found before (although not quite as large as Disney would have you believe). But who knows? Really.
2 comments:
haha, they had no idea what to call it, or I guess the original writer of the book had no idea. Maybe the should have called 40,000 Morning Mesume Girls under the sea. Now that might be intresting!
I believe the 40,000 leagues refers to the distance travelled while under the sea rather than the depth :)
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