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Re: volcano if you ask me...
Posted By: SiliconDream <querl@uclink4.berkeley.edu>	Date: 11/11/99 12:10 a.m.
In Response To: Re: volcano if you ask me... (Mage) > It cant have a molten core. Not thick enough. If it had ANY, it > would literally FRY the ever-living-hell out of the inner > surface. Bear in mind, our core is melted because of pressure... > lava only hits the surface under pressure, and in small > amounts... Actually, our inner core is *solid* because of pressure. Only the inner mantle and a bit of the outer core are liquid. And last I checked, the consensus was that most of the heat is due to radioactive decay; heavy uranium and whatnot sinks to the core and decays there. The heat produced by Earth's gravitational compression would have leaked away long ago. As I saidm > If the halo was a bunch thicker, then this WOULD work. Surface > tension would be insane though, keeping all that lava > connected... Surface tension? The lava would be bounded on one side by the solid inner surface of the Halo (where everything lives) and on the other by whatever the outside of the Halo is made of. I don't see where surface tension comes into it. You're probably right about a lava layer heating up the surface--I believe I mentioned that problem in my last post--but I feel like swiping your job as Devil's Advocate, so let's see...the distance between Earth's surface and the liquid region of the mantle is roughly 500 km, or a tenth of the Halo's radius. Is it possible that the Halo is 500 km thick? Based on what the hologram looks like, I think it is. And if Earth can have a temperature difference that great over 500 km, I don't see why the Halo can't. Ahh, I don't even think it's a real volcano anyway. --SiliconDream

Message Index

Smoke plume and different sky revealed!	Wirehead	11/10/99 4:11 a.m.
Re: Smoke plume and different sky revealed!	MacDrugal	11/10/99 9:41 a.m.
Re: Smoke plume and different sky revealed!	wondercrank	11/10/99 2:22 p.m.
volcano if you ask me...	Ben Schodek	11/10/99 6:23 p.m.
Re: volcano if you ask me...	Mark Levin	11/10/99 7:07 p.m.
My kingdom for a ship.....:)	Sempiternity	11/11/99 10:13 a.m.
Re: volcano if you ask me...	SiliconDream	11/10/99 7:42 p.m.
Re: volcano if you ask me...	Mage	11/10/99 11:10 p.m.
Re: volcano if you ask me...	SiliconDream	11/11/99 12:10 a.m.
Re: volcano if you ask me...	Mage	11/11/99 5:49 p.m.
Inner and Outer cores.	Bachus	11/12/99 2:39 p.m.
Re: Inner and Outer cores.	Mage	11/12/99 3:36 p.m.
Re: Inner and Outer cores.	Desio	11/12/99 4:21 p.m.
Re: Inner and Outer cores.	Mage	11/13/99 12:30 p.m.
Yes, Mage, radioactive decay (OT)	SiliconDream	11/13/99 11:10 p.m.
Re: Yes, Mage, radioactive decay (OT)	Mage	11/14/99 1:01 a.m.
Re: Yes, Mage, radioactive decay (OT)	Mark Levin	11/14/99 1:23 a.m.
Switching focus.....	Sempiternity	11/14/99 12:40 p.m.
Powers up the Trademarked Weapon™	SiliconDream	11/14/99 3:37 a.m.
Re: Powers up the Trademarked Weapon™	Mage	11/14/99 10:41 a.m.
Re: Powers up the Trademarked Weapon™	SiliconDream	11/14/99 2:20 p.m.
Re: Powers up the Trademarked Weapon™	Mage	11/14/99 8:15 p.m.
Re: Powers up the Ultimate Weapon™	Mark Levin	11/14/99 9:50 p.m.
Really Boring Post	SiliconDream	11/15/99 1:21 a.m.
Re: volcano if you ask me...	Mage	11/10/99 11:16 p.m.
Re: volcano if you ask me...	MacDrugal	11/11/99 2:14 a.m.
Re: volcano if you ask me...	Louis Wu	11/11/99 9:12 p.m.
Re: volcano if you ask me...	MacDrugal	11/12/99 1:11 a.m.