Posted on 01/16/2022 3:44:11 PM PST by BenLurkin
This reminds me of a SI-FI I read maybe 55 years ago in which a nuclear war hurls the earth and a city that missed the blast, millions of years into the future, Earth is a dying planet with a dying sun.
The only way to reignite the inner earth heat is with a nuclear bomb supplied by outer space creatures.
I read too much, and remember way too much.
A lab computer model based on a theory that cannot be proved one way or the other. In other words Junk Science.
Not if the rate of cooling is variable. That seems to be st issue. And difficult to measure.
Did they factor that into their globull warming computations?
“The boundary layer is formed mainly of the mineral bridgmanite”.
The boundary they speak of is estimated to be about 1800 miles deep. How do they know what it’s made of?
It’s all of those infernal windmills.
Quick. Get out there and start up that hot rod Lincoln.
All the holes to China have really taken a toll.
Women, BIPOCs, LGBT/whatever hardest hit
Perhaps the Earth isn’t really 4.5 billion years old.
I am sure the mask mandates or the elimation of gas cars will fix this!
Tucci is one of those actors you know is going to turn in a solid performance, even if the script and the rest of the cast suck eggs.
Hillary Swank isn’t that hard on the eyes, depending on how her hair is done. Not a classic beauty by any means. Lets call her “serviceable”.
Actually there are problems with this article.
First, Earth is also heating itself. The decay of radioactive materials is what is mostly powering the volcanoes and the internal heat. But this Earth radioactivity is running out, although very slowly.
Secondly, the Earth self heat is rather negligible as far as we are concerned. The Sun determined Earth temperature, not the Earth internals.
You mean it isn’t at 5 million degrees anymore? (per the Goricle)
"This leads them to suspect that the Earth’s heat may dissipate sooner than previously thought. "
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'Earth’s Interior Is Cooling “Much Faster Than Expected”'
I think not!
Somebody call Tonga and tell them to relax. /s
So I’ve heard before. The sun is heating up as it ages, and anywhere between the time you mentioned and twice that long the rate of evaporation will exceed the rate of water condensation, and the oceans will disappear. Goodbye life on Earth. Humans will have been gone long before that anyway. The sun itself will be a degenerate core of slowly cooling carbon and oxygen a few billion years later. The andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way at about the same time, turning both into starbursts, depleting all the star-forming hydrogen gas. In a few billion more years there will only be old red dwarf stars populating the night sky, none of them even visible to the human eye, not that we’ll be here anyway. In another one or two trillion years those will also be gone, only their dark degenerate cores remaining. I’m trying to think of a bright side here, but all I can come up with is that God is eternal, and death has no sting.
The author needs to take a refresher course in Heat Transfer 101. The amount of heat transferred depends not only by the heat transfer coefficient, but also by the Temperature across the material. If the temperature is the same on both sides, there will be zero heat transfer. when a relatively thin layer of highly conductive material is placed against an insulator (dirt) The temperature nearly equalizes on both sides of the layer, and virtually no heat is transferred, regardless of how good the heat transfer coefficient is.
Dang it, if only we knew of a way to warm the planet to fight off the cooling of the core. Oh wait! How about man-made global warming? That may be the answer and what will save us in the end.
We need to start building that earth boring machine made of unobtanium.
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