From the depths

[OK_Cat]

Geysers

[Tobias]

[star seed 7]

I love you tobia's

[Stevesie60]

Aren't there squids big enough to take down whales? No thanks bro, I'm good on land.

[wiley]

Just spitballin' here, but couldn't the immense pressure change the properties of the "water" at that depth, allowing it to actually be colder than the normal freezing point at sea level and 1.0 atm but still remain in a liquid state? Plus, salt water freezes slightly below the regular freezing point of water, anyway.  I'm guessing it's a weird soupy sea of cold coldness.

2 degrees Celsius in the Mariana trench.

[Trogdor]

Aren't there squids big enough to take down whales? No thanks bro, I'm good on land.

I think now we all know what happened to the Malaysia flight after it crash landed

[Asteriskhead]

@tobias 

[Emo EMAW]

Fwiw it only takes 15 minutes for hypothermia in like 70 degree water.

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[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Fwiw it only takes 15 minutes for hypothermia in like 70 degree water.

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I don't think that is true.

[Emo EMAW]

 

Fwiw it only takes 15 minutes for hypothermia in like 70 degree water.

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I don't think that is true.

You know, I thought so too, but that's what it said in a book I'm reading.  Maybe it was clarified by "hypothermic symptoms" and not hypothermia itself.  If I can find the quote (search function in Kindle?) I'll post it.

[Emo EMAW]

Also, here's the thing with the deep ocean.  Assuming heat flow is linear (straight up or straight down), and maybe that's a really shitty assumption...

We know the Earth's mantle is super rough ridin' hot relative to the water temperature, and we know the surface temperature should average 60 or 70 degrees F worldwide...so I'd guess there is a steady temperature gradient from the depths to the surface.  Apparently this isn't true and I wonder why.

[Spracne]

Also, here's the thing with the deep ocean.  Assuming heat flow is linear (straight up or straight down), and maybe that's a really shitty assumption...

We know the Earth's mantle is super rough ridin' hot relative to the water temperature, and we know the surface temperature should average 60 or 70 degrees F worldwide...so I'd guess there is a steady temperature gradient from the depths to the surface.  Apparently this isn't true and I wonder why.

crap b lurkin', yo.

[AST]

Also, here's the thing with the deep ocean.  Assuming heat flow is linear (straight up or straight down), and maybe that's a really shitty assumption...

We know the Earth's mantle is super rough ridin' hot relative to the water temperature, and we know the surface temperature should average 60 or 70 degrees F worldwide...so I'd guess there is a steady temperature gradient from the depths to the surface.  Apparently this isn't true and I wonder why.

and that is why i initally asked the question.  i mean goethermal heat and the such yet the cool water would need to stay at the bottom less it rise.  weird science going on in the abyss, that's for sure

[Emo EMAW]

Fwiw it only takes 15 minutes for hypothermia in like 70 degree water.

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I don't think that is true.

You know, I thought so too, but that's what it said in a book I'm reading.  Maybe it was clarified by "hypothermic symptoms" and not hypothermia itself.  If I can find the quote (search function in Kindle?) I'll post it.

Well I can't C&P from kindle, but I messed up the numbers..."just under 60 degrees = 15 minutes" before symptoms set in.

[Stevesie60]

Okay, everyone realizes how far away the core of the Earth is even from the bottom of the ocean, yes? The temperature of earth's core has zero effect on the temperature of the ocean.

Fun fact: If you can imagine Planet Earth to the same scale of an apple, the skin of the apple would be the same size as the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean.

[Spracne]

Okay, everyone realizes how far away the core of the Earth is even from the bottom of the ocean, yes? The temperature of earth's core has zero effect on the temperature of the ocean.

Fun fact: If you can imagine Planet Earth to the same scale of an apple, the skin of the apple would be the same size as the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean.

Hmmm... I'm gonna need a visual to help me process the words that you are saying.

[star seed 7]

Okay, everyone realizes how far away the core of the Earth is even from the bottom of the ocean, yes? The temperature of earth's core has zero effect on the temperature of the ocean.

Fun fact: If you can imagine Planet Earth to the same scale of an apple, the skin of the apple would be the same size as the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean.

I'm glad you set these fools straight

[AST]

i also know that you only have to drill a well a couple of hundred feet deep to get the geothermal energy required to keep your house/pool 70 degrees year round.

[Panjandrum]

[CNS]

i also know that you only have to drill a well a couple of hundred feet deep to get the geothermal energy required to keep your house/pool 70 degrees year round.

Smaller Apple or thinner skin?

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[AST]

i also know that you only have to drill a well a couple of hundred feet deep to get the geothermal energy required to keep your house/pool 70 degrees year round.

Smaller Apple or thinner skin?

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pb&j

[HerrSonntag]

i also know that you only have to drill a well a couple of hundred feet deep to get the geothermal energy required to keep your house/pool 70 degrees year round.

In South Africa, the ambient temperature of rock 2.4 miles below the surface is 131F, guys!! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TauTona_Mine

The Mariana Trench is 6.3 mi deep, yet 36F, someone science this thread up, plz. tia.

[AST]

if i was to make an uneducated guess, the geothermal energy below the deeps is just enough to keep that huge mass of water from freezing but not enough to get it warm. 

but to say it makes no difference is just silliness

oh, and i for one never mentiined the earth's core, that's like half way to china.  learnt that in a bugs bunny episode.

[eastcat]

400lbs of lithium ion batteries should make some weird crap in about 1,000 years.

[kslim]

fascinating