• philthi@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Doesn’t the earth itself provide a significant amount of heat from the core? I’m sure I read somewhere that for something like every 10 meters down you dig, the temperature raises by 1° celcius. So maybe we’d not notice a temperature drop so quickly?

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      1 month ago

      Not sure how quick exactly, but the earth doesn’t provide enough heat, not even close. Kurzgesagt has a video on a similar subject, without the trillions 1.7e17 Watts showering the earth every second we’d get awfully cold awfully quick. They are talking about slowly moving away from the sun, but they conclude it would get real icy