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(...) That sounds a lot like the premise of the recent movie The Core, but I saw a geophysicist on TV talking about it, and how he liked the fact that recent movies have been inspiring kids to get into science, but he said that in this case he (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Entering extrreme geek zone OK let's do the math every thing is metric radius of the earth = 6378137 meters figure the "core" is 1/4 radius out 1594534.25 volume of core 4/3 * PI * R-cubed = 16982051976875485000 = 1.7e10^19 M^3 Ignoring (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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GRIN.... (...) This is off topic for .debate... it belongs in .geek! C'mon guys! Now if you want to debate whether melting Mars is a good idea or not, that's different. :-) Personally I'm not sure it's a good idea, or necessary. There's plenty of (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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It may just be easier to build a Dyson Sphere and a lot cooler too! (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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