Al Gore FAIL - Earth's Core Several Million Degrees

youtube ^ | July 2011

[doug from upland]

WATCH IN AMAZEMENT

[PLD]

The goofball is back..What a nerve the filthy bastard should stay in his hole..

[Tennessean4Bush]

He can take comfort in the fact that he knows how to spell potatough

[Bitsy]

What a nerve the filthy bastard should stay in his hole..

He can't because he is an egotistical, narcissistic buffoon who invented the Internet and thinks he knows all - just ask him.

[Tigerized]

Scientists agree that the temperature at the earth’s core is in the neighborhood of 6000F.

Even the surface of the sun doesn’t reach “millions of degrees”.

Why are we listening to this guy at all?

Scary to think he was actually VP.

[almcbean]

WHEW! That’s some fever!

[Col Frank Slade]

Perhaps the funniest song parody by Limbaugh is Gore singing the Johnny Cash song Ring of Fire.

[agere_contra]

In case we get letters: the temperature of the sun’s corona is sometimes reported as millions of degrees.

However the corona is not in a state of thermal equilibrium. This means that using the immense speed of its constituent particles as an analogue for temperature can be misleading.

[xkaydet65]

This is from 2009 and IIRC had been discussed at length here on FR and all around the center right blogsphere and talkradio.

[niteowl]

So he’s only off by 3 orders of magnitude. That’s still better than the typical Democrat budget (when they actually bother to put one out).

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Remember that Al Gore is from the planet Hoth, and learned science from the movie Starcrash (1978), starring the toothsome Caroline Monroe, a robot with a hokey southern accent, and Christopher Plummer, as the "Emperor of the Galaxy", who Al thought was Bill Clinton.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcrash

So Al might be confused. For example, the movie includes such dialogue as:

"You must return before the sun sets, at night the temperature drops thousands of degrees!"

"You know, my son, I wouldn't be Emperor of the Galaxy if I didn't have a few powers at my disposal. Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!"

Emperor of the Galaxy: "For the space of three minutes, every molecule on this planet will be immobilized. But after the third minute, the green ray loses it's power. Time will flow once more and everything will explode."

Simon: "Three minutes are enough, father."

"These are pre-programmed computers! They will run forever!"

"I don't understand, you never die."

Stella Star: "So you see into the future. All these years you never told me. Think of all the trouble I might have avoided."

Akton: "You would have tried to change the future, which is against the law. So therefore I can tell you nothing."

"I only have logic and emotion circuits. No room for craziness. Time for a little robot chauvinism. Circuits don't fail me now! Now maybe is a good time to use your ancient system of paryer and hope it works for robots as well."

[dead]

[ETL]

Scientists agree that the temperature at the earth’s core is in the neighborhood of 6000F. Even the surface of the sun doesn’t reach “millions of degrees”.

The Sun's surface is about 6,000F. That is why it is a yellow star. Hotter stars are blue or white. Orange and red stars are cooler than the Sun. However, the interior of the Sun is roughly 13 million degrees F. The outer region known as the Corona is also millions of degrees.

Al Gore made this gaffe (Earth's interior "millions" of degrees) several years ago.

[blueunicorn6]

Scientists and engineers work to build a thermos that will keep my soup hot for longer than two hours, but the dirt thermos we live on can keep its center at 6000 degrees for billions of years? We need a dirt thermos.

[alexander_busek]

However the corona is not in a state of thermal equilibrium. This means that using the immense speed of its constituent particles as an analogue for temperature can be misleading.

Dear agere_contra:

I don't know what you mean by "not in a state of thermal equilibrium" - are you sure that you meant to say that? - but the reason it is perhaps misleading to tell laypersons that the corona's temperature is in the millions is that it is extremely RARIFIED - i.e., a good (if not perfect) vacuum.

So the actual energy (e.g., calories) contained in a cubic meter of the corona is not that great - just as immersion of a human in a cubic meter of air at 212 °F would be tolerable, while immersion in a cubic meter of water at that same temperature would be lethal.

Regards,

[doug from upland]

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