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# 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)