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# If I get a planet, and then I make an ocean on the planet, and the water is all the same temperature and space is insulating somehow and the planet is insulating too and there's nothing to heat or cool the water,
does the ocean get hot at the bottom because of pressure? Or does it get cold at the bottom, like our ocean? Or does the temperature even out? Or does it keep on convecting?

A bird wouldn't even be able to answer that.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 2:29, archived)
# A bird would probably just tilt its head at you and then fly away.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 2:47, archived)
# I like to feed the sparrows
I hope the food I give them doesn't make them sick or die
 
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 2:49, archived)
# Don't feed them the ragout
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:06, archived)
# To make a Ragoo of Pigs-Ears
TAKE a quantity of pigs-ears, and boil them in one half wine and the other water; cut them in small pieces, then brown a little butter, and put them in, and a pretty deal of gravy, two anchovies, an eschalot or two, a little mustard, and some slices of lemon, some salt and nutmeg: stew all these together, and shake it up thick. Garnish the dish with barberries.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:38, archived)
# also to answer to your question I need to clarify some things
Does the rotation of the planet move the water? Are there tidal forces at play? If so, how many moons does this planet have and what gravitational pull do they have on the water?
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 2:52, archived)
# None of those things happen and there aren't even any stars in the universe.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 2:53, archived)
# well if the water remains perfectly still and there is no way for the water to heat up or cool down then I guess it would remain in a constant state
Was the water all at an even temperature when the ocean was formed? Is the ocean completely still?
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 2:57, archived)
# Yes, and yes.
What I reckon happens is that first the pressure means it heats up a little bit at the bottom, and that warm water stays down there because it's being compressed, and the heat evens out after a bit, and there you are, it's just a lot of water and it's slightly warmer all through than when I put it there.

Which means our ocean is only cold at the bottom because things make it hot in places and that water rises.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:02, archived)
# Our ocean isn't uniformly cold at the bottom though
I mean there are all sorts of volcanic activities going on down there.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:06, archived)
# I heard that there's snakes.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:09, archived)
# See, the earth gets hotter as you go deeper
and the atmosphere gets colder as you go higher, but the ocean is the other way up, and that bothered me. Actually there's probably some bit of the upper atmosphere that's really hot, it's called the hotosphere, birds don't go there, they don't even know about it.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:10, archived)
# But the bottom of the ocean is still the top of the crust, which is the coldest part of the earth.
The crust is really very thin, like the skin on milk or the rind of an apple.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:12, archived)
# No, wait. I don't mean that the crust is thin, I mean that our bit (ocean, houses, etc) is thin.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:13, archived)
# The ocean is still the wrong way up
I'm not going to overlook this aberration just because it's thin.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:16, archived)
# I made some LEGO models based on an inversion of that.
For a planet where the bottom layer of water is way hotter than the air or surface water.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:31, archived)
# Please tell me you made it out of pirate lego
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:48, archived)
# Several parts from that theme, yes.
Here the gallery.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:55, archived)
# Warm. Water. Rises.
Density Holmes.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:52, archived)
# Also I doubt something's own pressure could heat itself up. The energy would have to come from somewhere.
Thermodynamics.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:54, archived)
# Do you mean like how the core of the Earth is so hot because of all the pressure?
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:57, archived)
# is not the earth made from a ball of hot magma that is cooling slowly?
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 9:26, archived)
# people stopped answering this at 4am ish then :/
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 9:34, archived)
# Big ball of transuranics mixed with your iron nickel core for extra heat?
Run out eventually, but it could still be billions of years for it to do so.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:58, archived)
# What about evaporation? Does it rain on this planet or does the ocean just sit there?
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 2:59, archived)
# FUCKING BIRDS
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:00, archived)
# One day the birds will all flap their wings at the same time, and the downdraft will blow off all our hats and wigs.
THEN we'll be sorry, oh yes.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:15, archived)
# without any stars
i.e. a sun or a molten core the water should really be super cooled ice
edit : unless the atmosphere is on fire
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 9:29, archived)
# A bird would TOTALLY be able to answer that.
The question really is, would you be smart enough to understand them?
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 2:54, archived)
# You switched it around. I see what you did.
You switched it around.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 2:56, archived)
# "I was born at the centre of a water moon...."
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:05, archived)