08 Apr 13
Originally posted by RJHindsWe know its your speculation (cannot think of anyone else that stupid).
I did not say the rays of the Sun keeps the core of the earth molten. There is only a certain portion of the earth's core that is molten anyway. But if there was no Sun to heat the outside of the earth then it would freeze everything on the outside and eventually there would be no molten core on the insiide. That is my speculation on the matter.
And an you tell us how the core miraculously turns to ice when its cold enough?
10 Apr 13
Originally posted by wolfgang59Well, see the water or snow on the outside of the earth would freeze and get so cold that anything that is hot in the core would cool and then freeze too. The outside is ice so it would appear as a big ball of ice like a snowball. 😏
We know its your speculation (cannot think of anyone else that stupid).
And an you tell us how the core miraculously turns to ice when its cold enough?
Now how smart is that? Genius? Maybe not quite, but pretty intelligent, right? 😏
10 Apr 13
Originally posted by RJHindsWell, I'm glad YOU think so. You seem to be forgetting about that minor 4000 miles of solid and liquid rock below all that ice. How come the core underneath the Antarctic has not started freezing? According to your theory, ice on top, freezing below. The truth is, under all that ice, 2 miles deep, there is no sunlight anyway but ten feet below that rock it starts heating up from whatever the freezing point of water is under that much pressure of 2 miles of solid ice but below that you get 50 degree F rock, right underneath that ice. In fact, homes use that effect to get close to free heating, turning 50 or 60 degree or the hotter the better, 1 mile down it is close to 180 degrees F, stick pipes in the ground and pump some heat bearing fluid, like water or oil, and it gets warm and you can use that to energize a heat pump, get something like 3 to 1 heat, say 5000 watts of energy use gives you 15,000 watts of heat.
Well, see the water or snow on the outside of the earth would freeze and get so cold that anything that is hot in the core would cool and then freeze too. The outside is ice so it would appear as a big ball of ice like a snowball. 😏
Now how smart is that? Genius? Maybe not quite, but pretty intelligent, right? 😏
If you were just using an electrical heater, 5000 watts of energy gets you 5000 watts of heat, not a btu more.
So that fact is pretty useful and it has NOTHING to do with the sun heating the surface. Eventually it would get cold but that eventually runs into MANY millions of years, close enough to infinity for humans.
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10 Apr 13
Originally posted by tim88I think if Earth suddenly became a wandering object not near enough to any sources of heat (stars) to be in orbit, and not bombarded by objects, its temperature would begin to drop to the background radiation, about 3 degrees kelvin. But reportedly there are nuclear events occurring in the core, which would affect the time it took.
just if there was no sun. do we know?
11 Apr 13
Originally posted by sonhouseDidn't you read my earlier post where I mentioned 8.63 million years?
Well, I'm glad YOU think so. You seem to be forgetting about that minor 4000 miles of solid and liquid rock below all that ice. How come the core underneath the Antarctic has not started freezing? According to your theory, ice on top, freezing below. The truth is, under all that ice, 2 miles deep, there is no sunlight anyway but ten feet below that rock it ...[text shortened]... cold but that eventually runs into MANY millions of years, close enough to infinity for humans.