TexasJustice

Hi. Thank you so much for your help. So if I am understanding this, then you are saying that Kepler-22b has a workable area of 1,200,000,000 sq miles in total, and as such, if I was to say that the land is 31% of the "surface" area, and the ocean was 69%, then the land is 372 Million sq miles, and the Ocean is 828 million sq miles, as I am just dividing that by 100, and multiplying accordingly to my literary needs. Correct?

I guess I'll post my question as a riddle? Not sure where I should have posted this. Feel free to move it elsewhere. Hi. I have a question for a novel I'm outlining. Question: So let's say that Kepler-22b is 31% land, 69% Ocean. (I'm saying this. Not reality) Then what is the land mass in sq miles of Kepler-22b? What is the ocean mass of Kepler-22b? What as the formula to get there? Data that I have found to work with: Earth has a radius of 3,958.8 miles Kepler-22b is 2.4 times bigger then Earth (Which I guess means Kepler-22b is way bigger then Earth. Like 36 times the mass of Earth, according to google? That sounds crazy to me.) Kepler-22b therefore has a radius of 9,501? (or so google says. I have zero idea.) Google also says that Earth has supposedly 57,308,738 Sq miles of land on it. Earth's land coverage is approximately 29% of the total 196,900,000 sq Miles worth of total surface area. I have no idea if this is relevant, or useless info. I also found this for a reference, but if I knew how to use it, I wouldn't be here. Earth's Size: Volume: 6.73 x 1011 cubic miles (1.083 x 1012 km3) Radius: 3,959 miles (6,371 km) Diameter: 7,918 miles (12,742 km) Surface Area: 1.97 x108 square miles (5.1 x 108 km2) Mass: 5.972 x 1024 kg

Hi. I just got here. I was posting a math question to my favorite pinball machine forum, off topic section of course, and quickly realized I need to take it to the right place. This came up first in a Google search for science forums, so naturally it must be the best! The discussion did make me realize that I had no understanding at all of planet size comparison. I was thinking that 2.4 times bigger was 1 times 2.4, but apparently I was not carrying the radius or something, who knows. I'm not freaking Good Will Hunting over here! Clearly. In short, I was able to take my own ignorance away from the discussion. Which is good? Right? Anyway, I'm a writer and I'm outlining a YA Sci-fi book series, so hopefully I will have some amazingly absurd and preposterous questions, as well as plenty of lunacy for you. Hopefully many of you have a great deal of indulgence on tap, ready to flow from inside of you. That will be helpful for both of us. No doubt it will be needed for, if nothing else, for when I try to debate why I think that creating a mini black hole is a great way to solve a planets gravity problem, despite zero evidence to back it up. Cheers PS, the first thing I found here was the banned section. I spent twenty minutes reading it. It's hilarious! Lots of bans for socket puppeting. So funny. All though in all fairness, if I have multiple personalities, then doesn’t each of them deserve their own account? And if so, then is it such a crime if they all just happen to agree with me? Hmmmm? Food for thought? No? Ooky dooky!