Hello,

I was just laying here wondering about
silly non-sense when a couple thoughts came to me
that requires an answer, so here I am.

1. At what rate can the average soil & terrain sustain a
continuous uninterrupted rainfall without
danger of flooding ?
e.g. 7 inches per year is too little and
1 inch per hour is too much.

2. If a sizable asteroid hit the Earth and vaporized a
significant amount of the ocean could there possibly
be a continuous rain for months or years at a time while
the water is condensing out of the air ?
e.g. there was a period in Earths geologic history
called the great discontinuity, or something like that,
where the landmasses were eroded down to about sea level,
if it was caused by rain such rain might have been
continuous or very frequent.

There was a Science Fiction called the Illustrated Man
which was a series of small stories and in one of the stories
there were some astronauts who landed on a planet
with continuous rainfall.

All answers addressing these two issues are welcome
whether serious or not.

gmv