[ShadowAce]

...where temperatures reach 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit — as hot as the surface of the Sun.

Since they haven't actually measured this, how do they know?

[sodpoodle]

Stop the World...........I wanna get off;)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Twotone]

We’re doomed?

[Pollster1]

"Geologists have long known that Earth’s core, some 1,800 miles beneath our feet, is . . . 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit — as hot as the surface of the Sun."

But a Nobel Prize winning scientist assured us three years ago that the earth's Interior is 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees'. How did our planet manage to cool so much despite global warming?

[rightwingextremist1776]

Everyone into their SUVs...we need to heat this puppy up!

[relictele]

3.5 million atmospheres, like 3.5 million skies falling at once on your head,

Gee thanks, Nat. Us yokels didn't know what the unit known as an atmosphere was. Except your analogy is flawed, since we're talking about mostly static pressure, not dynamic pressure i.e. the kind that would result from motion, falling, a collision, etc.

No wonder the Times' corrections page is so active.

[Gamecock]

Balderdash!

The earth is hollow!

Read it here on FR!

Here's what it looks like:

[aruanan]

The theoretical consequences of this discrepancy are far-reaching. The scientists say something else must be going on in Earth’s depths to account for the missing thermal energy in their calculations. They and others offer these possibilities:

The other possibility is that their calculations are crap.

[Sequoyah101]

Where is the, “We’re all gonna die!” cartoon.

Other things are much more important and we maybe able to actually DO something about them.

This is probably balderdash and certainly a waste of time.

Maybe interesting but a waste of time.

[nitzy]

Bush’s fault.

[Gamecock]

From the article: “From what I can tell, people are excited” by the report, Dr. Alfè said."

I'm certainly all spun up over this!

[Graewoulf]

Thanks for this thread.

[Rebelbase]

“Geologists have long known that Earth’s core, some 1,800 miles beneath our feet, is a dense, chemically doped ball of iron roughly the size of Mars and every bit as alien. It’s a place where pressures bear down with the weight of 3.5 million atmospheres, like 3.5 million skies falling at once on your head, and where temperatures reach 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit — as hot as the surface of the Sun. It’s a place where the term “ironclad agreement” has no meaning, since iron can’t even agree with itself on what form to take. It’s a fluid, it’s a solid, it’s twisting and spiraling like liquid confetti.”

AKA, the Teddy Kennedy grease fire.

[Jack Hammer]

So... I guess that means we’re all gonna die....?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Or maybe Hell is really down there, and it’s emitting all that heat, because it’s gonna stay hot forever!