Recent content by Danielvr

Bandersnatch, thank you once more for an enlightening response! I'd never have guessed that the outer layer of our planet is such a good insulator (basalt and granite being pretty cool to the touch -- but not -237 centrigades cool, for which we have to thank the Sun).

Bandersnatch, thanks kindly for answering my question! Intuitively, I still find it hard to understand that we, living on the thin crust of the planet, get so little heat from within the endlessly more voluminous and blazingly hot mantle. Particularly because when you descend into a mine, it...

Hi, a noob here, so please bear with me as I show my ignorance :) Anyone who has ever spent some time in the depths of a coalmine knows that it can get pretty hot down in Earth's crust. (much) Deeper still, the core of our planet has even been calculated to be 10,800 degrees hot (as hot as...