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# Our ocean isn't uniformly cold at the bottom though
I mean there are all sorts of volcanic activities going on down there.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:06, archived)
# I heard that there's snakes.
(, 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.
(, 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.
(, 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.
(, 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.
(, 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.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:31, archived)
# Please tell me you made it out of pirate lego
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:48, archived)
# Several parts from that theme, yes.
Here the gallery.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:55, archived)
# Warm. Water. Rises.
Density Holmes.
(, 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.
(, 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?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:57, archived)
# is not the earth made from a ball of hot magma that is cooling slowly?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 9:26, archived)
# people stopped answering this at 4am ish then :/
(, 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.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 3:58, archived)