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Ha! Indeed.

If all the ice melted it would raise the oceans by something like 230 feet, so modern Vienna would still be above water at 495 – 1778 ft elevation.

Although some estimates suggest Earth loses 20 - 30 cubic kilometres of water to space annually. Plus whatever water is bound up in mineralisation annually.

450 million cubic kilometres of water lost over a 15 million year period would lower ocean by something like … a bit?

The total volume of water on Earth is presently estimated to be around the 1.386 billion cubic kilometre mark.

The volume of a sphere increases to the cube of its radius … carry the 1 … nup, that’s to hard for me.

Beach front property in Vienna, at a guess?

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-would-sea-level-change-if-all-...

https://www.ewash.org/how-much-water-disappears-from-earth-e...

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/the-water-c...