By “smoothing out” I mean flattening all mountains and filling all trenches so that the entire earth has exactly the same radius everwhere. Water naturally spreads out equally on such a surface, so how high would the water level be?

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    Sure, they’re great for people chatting casually in the US, Myanmar and Liberia but even there they still add unnecessary complexity with scientific or engineering applications