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To: entropy12
It is amazing that after 5 Billion years since it’s birth, planet earth is still 90% molten Lava in it’s belly.

Heat is constantly being produced by the little bit of radioactivity in the earth.

I suspect that 90% molten is a significant exaggeration.

38 posted on 12/08/2019 9:55:11 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave
"It is amazing that after 5 Billion years since it’s birth, planet earth is still 90% molten Lava in it’s belly.

Tells you something about how brief our time on Earth is.

56 posted on 12/09/2019 3:43:21 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: CurlyDave

7920 miles dia of planet earth
Earth’s crust is 5 miles deep under oceans, and 25 miles under continents.

Volume of sphere = 4/3 x Pi x R**3

Volume below the rocky crust based on average diameter of
7920 - 30 = 7890 miles

Which then computes the earth’s crust as 1.132% of
earths’s total volume.

Which means 98.868% of earth is below the solid crust outer shell.


64 posted on 12/09/2019 7:04:40 AM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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