If I went?

I'm pretty sure the inner core is solid. Even the 'liquid' mantle around it I doubt you could swim through. It's molten iron/rock/minerals.

Earthquakes and volcaneos are caused by shifts in the crusts techtonic plates - evidence that the crust is sliding around slowly on a 'liquid' mantle. Also the fact that we have a magnetic field protecting us from harmful radiation is evidence that below the crust is molten, has metal in it and is moving (because it's a liquid). I believe if it were all solid we wouldn't have that magnetic field - may be wrong there though.
 
one day some greedy company will mine the core and destroy the planet.

most of earths gold is supposed to be at the core right?
 
the inner core is suspected to be 98/99 percent solid iron and the other percent being 'other' materials I believe. The friction of the core spinning creates the molten outer core.

(if I remember my lessons correctly)
 
Fireskull said:
I thought everyone learned this stuff as a kid? :p

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I thought so too, The basics of the earths make up and working were all covered in detail as part of Geography lessons in high school.

I think you should watch, Richard Hammonds Journey to the centre of the planet and Journey to the bottom of the ocean, it will give you a basic understanding of the questions you are asking.
 
steve45 said:
I thought so too, The basics of the earths make up and working were all covered in detail as part of Geography lessons in high school.

I think you should watch, Richard Hammonds Journey to the centre of the planet and Journey to the bottom of the ocean, it will give you a basic understanding of the questions you are asking.
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That would mean watching Hammond though...without Clarkson and May he's terribly poor.
 
arknor said:
one day some greedy company will mine the core and destroy the planet.

most of earths gold is supposed to be at the core right?
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Yep, and platinum.

I doubt there will ever be an extraction method worth drilling it for though.
 
If we ever get advanced enough to be able to drill the core, we could probably just synthesize gold itself from other elements.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Which isn't much different to going into a supernova at the centre of the planet and getting at it :p
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Super nova = 100 billion kelvin, 6000 times the temperature of the sun's core.

Earth core = considerations suggest that its temperature is about 5,700 K (5,430 °C; 9,800 °F).

probably easier to just mine the core ;)
 
arknor said:
Super nova = 100 billion kelvin, 6000 times the temperature of the sun's core.

Earth core = considerations suggest that its temperature is about 5,700 K (5,430 °C; 9,800 °F).

probably easier to just mine the core ;)
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Wiki says gold, can, and has been synthesized from other elements already using irradiation and neutron capture. So I don't think the supernova thing is legit.
 
If a skydiver jumped from a plane 10,000 feet up it would take 1 minute to reach the ground. If there was a theoretical tunnel in the Earth and the skydiver continued to fall, it would take him 32 hours to get to the Earth's core.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Wiki says gold, can, and has been synthesized from other elements already using irradiation and neutron capture. So I don't think the supernova thing is legit.
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Which doesn't exactly produce gold you can do much with - neither does any refinement of that specific process. We are a long way from being able to produce the kind of gold used in every day application and jewellery, etc.
 
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