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To: JimSEA

For 4,500,000,000 years our planet has been rolling around in the cold of space managing to maintain a molten core.

My thermos can’t keep my soup warm until lunch.


3 posted on 05/08/2017 2:08:59 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

You need a new thermos.


8 posted on 05/08/2017 2:35:07 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: blueunicorn6
For 4,500,000,000 years our planet has been rolling around in the cold of space managing to maintain a molten core.

My thermos can’t keep my soup warm until lunch.

Your soup is not heating itself with the decay of radioactive elements. (At least I assume it isn't.)

13 posted on 05/08/2017 2:59:48 PM PDT by snarkpup ("The Democrat party's policies are like a warm blanket of asbestos." - Crystal Wright)
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To: blueunicorn6

Get one of those Thermoses that keeps things hot instead of cold.


22 posted on 05/08/2017 5:50:26 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: blueunicorn6
"My thermos can’t keep my soup warm until lunch."

Your thermos has an insulating value (R) of roughly 5. Since it's about a half inch thick, that gives it an R value of roughly 10 per inch. Dirt has an R value of about 1 per inch. The dirt is roughly 1,000,000 inches thick. That gives it a total insulating value of about 1,000,000, compared to your thermos of 5. Earth also has residual radioactivity making up for any loss. That's sort of like putting an electric heater inside your thermos.

23 posted on 05/08/2017 5:53:16 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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