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To: z3n

Some eggheads have wargamed this, and the consensus is/was that surface dwelling would be impossible. If the Earth kept spinning, the core could stay warm enough for us to live, but it would be absolutely nothing like what we know.


11 posted on 02/11/2021 10:28:07 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: rarestia
If the Earth kept spinning, the core could stay warm enough [...]

The rotation of the Earth has absolutely nothing to do with the generation of heat in the Earth by the decay of natural radionuclides.

(Perhaps you are falsely conflating that with the maintenance of a magnetic field, which does indeed depend upon the continued existence of a liquid core in which thermal convection generates a magnetic field?)

Regards,

16 posted on 02/11/2021 10:33:28 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: rarestia

Boring Company IPO?


51 posted on 02/11/2021 3:32:29 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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