Talk:Lake Superior

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It would be nice to learn of the mean water volume of this lake.

In gallons, I've heard that it is approx. 3 gaudrilion* gallons. Is that right?

If that's so that's a mighty big water dish and we shall never drink it all!   

• 3,000,000,000,000,000 gallons

             1,000,000 gallons --- 1 million 
                25,000 gallons --- my brothers pool
                    25 gallons --- me      {200lbs/8 (water=8 lbs per gal)} 

If you started counting as fast as you could! Let's say 10 numbers per second.

It would take you 9.5 million years to reach 3 Quadrillion. Better hurry and get started.

- Straydog

im sure Gitchigume is lake huron.if you listen to the gorden lightfoots song he describes lake superior as flowing into the lake called Gitchigume. also iv known Old timers who called lake huron Gitchigume

Contents 1 Gitchigume 2 picture 3 Additions, corrections 4 Trivia 5 Question 6 Area 7 Fish

[edit] Gitchigume

As gitchigume means 'big water,' it is possible that Lake Huron/lac Huron is called this, too. But the term is meant for the biggest of the big - Lake Superior/lac Supérior. There used to be a hotel/bar at Haviland Bay called Gitchee Gumee, but it closed down after the fire.

I've also heard both Superior and Huron referred to as "Manitoulin," after the spirit-god that resides in the lakes and destroys ships when angry.

better listen again to the song, the lyrics are The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumme" -it is referring to Superior

[edit] picture

why did it change? copyvio? --Hraefen 21:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Additions, corrections

• Added the US Standard conversions to the sidebar chart.

(The reality is, excepting scientists and mathematicians, few Americans use Metric in their daily lives, even those with graduate degrees. Adding the Standard conversion(s) is requisite for an resource intended for an American audience. Thus I found it strange to find the conversions in the text but not in the chart. I rectified the anomaly. And it saves me from having to do the math in my head.

If for no other reason than to irritate the French--and really, is there a nobler cause?--we refuse to officially adopt the metric system. When I was in last year of grade school I clearly remember my old man's pleasure when Reynaldus Magnus cancelled Carter's plan to convert to metric. Furthermore, since we are the most powerful nation in the history of Earth, we don't have to adapt. It should also be noted that the French Academy of Science receives 99% of its submissions in English. Ja, schadenfreude is a beautiful thing...)

No dispute that the metric system is, er, systematic and Standard is a chaos of disparate, ah, measurements, the flotsam and jetsam of various previous systems and just plain weirdness. But they spent all of my years in school teaching us standard. At my age I don't have time to make the change.)

• Corrected some of numbers using the EPA's online Fact Sheet about Superior http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/atlas/gl-fact1.html. (I rounded to the nearest whole number using the standard calculation.)

• Removed area measurement of Lake Tanganyika; no other lakes' volumes are listed, thus the listing Tanganyika's was anomalous.

PainMan 15:45, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

The article has the following: "There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America with a foot of water," with the notation that a citation is needed. If the entries for the volume of water and the sizes of the continents are accepted, we can calculate this. (I calculated 11.25 inches.) So, a citation shouldn't be needed. We can show the calculations instead. 206.53.197.12 03:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

agreed. done. Civil Engineer III 12:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

I'm confused as too what "Lake Superiors best friend is Lake Michigan (found in the third line of page)" means. To me it seems not to have any real meaning here, and do believe it could be vandalism. So if I am correct may I fix it and if need be add a message to the user's IP Windscar77 07:48, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Area

The area figure doesn't line up with what the government says. [1] -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 15:52, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Lake superior is big. Why dont people drink from it !?!?

[edit] Fish

What type of fish are present in lake superior? Andercee 17:25, 21 January 2007 (UTC)