Dr. Aquatic and his Fiendish Plan
The mad and evil scientist, Dr Aquatic, has hatched a fiendish plan to drain all the oceans into 15 cylindrical holes in the earth. He has calculated that the volume of the water in the oceans is about 330,000,000 cubic miles ( cubic miles). He has determined that the holes should be 2,800 miles deep. At this depth the holes will reach tremendous temperatures and the water filling them will turn into steam and create a waterless dead planet surrounded by steam room temperature. (According to his analyst, Dr. Aquatic never learned to swim causing a neurotic paranoia about water. This mental state makes him feel dirty and creates a need for daily steambaths.) Your job is to find where Dr. Aquatic is doing his dirty work so he can be stopped. With the aid of powerful telescopes mounted on satellites, you can search the ocean floors. What are you looking for? What must the radius of the holes be if they are to hold all the water from the oceans? Take the value of pi to be 22/7 . Give the answer to the nearest mile.
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