Re[10]: [at-l] another stove question

[bullard@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Bullard)]

Actually the expanding Sun is likely to engulf the Earth before that
happens, or perhaps...
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/end-03a.html

At 05:11 PM 2/20/2003 -0500, Charles Frank wrote:
>My theory is that the earth HAS got to be COOLING. At one time the earth was
>a molten ball of lava and hot gases. It took billions of years for this mass
>to radiate enough heat for land and everything we have to solidify and
>become the earth we know. The core of our planet just a few miles below the
>surface is still liquid very very hot rock. Outside our very thin atmosphere
>in space the temperature is I believe about absolute zero. To suggest that
>our thin atmosphere will somehow stop all of the heat of the core of the
>planet from escaping forever is ridiculous to me. If there is a short term
>"blip" of a few years or even a hundred where the earth gains a degree or 2,
>the long term effect has still got to be that the earth will eventually cool
>down to where it will be inhabitable. Or at least to cold to hike.