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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People need to think about the crazy potential of geothermal energy in general. Thanks for bringing that up πŸŒ‹ . But the problem here: How do we get the Pizza down there πŸ•. Folding the Pizza through a Borehole πŸ—Ό? How stable is the temperature at 100Β°C spots?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

my epic plan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Only if temperature distribution is a continuous function.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

It's called a pizza oven!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

There was also a time when most of the universe was at the perfect temperature and density to cook pizza,I guess.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That is under my foot

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are places on the planet Mercury that, if you were to find a lava tube of sufficient depth, would be the perfect temperature for human habitation. Some of the craters on Mercury's poles are never exposed to sunlight and actually have ice in them. Most of the planet is of course boiling hot when the Sun is overhead. But there should be some choice areas where you could skirt the balance of the two, and find lava tubes that, with proper sealing, would be quite comfortable for humans to occupy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I hope this is true any source I could read more?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can probably find such a place on or close to the surface of the earth if it's close to an active volcano.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah. There is also likely a position in the earth where its possible to cook a human perfectly by getting them to bring a pizza there.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There is this restaurant on a volcano on Lanzarote, in the "Parque Nacional de Timanfaya", where they cook with the heat from the magma below. I am sure you could cook a pizza with that, as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

been there once - saw a delivery of some big canisters of gas πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That's just for gas lightning (the customers into thinking they cook with magma heat)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I had the chicken.

Unfortunatelly, the rest of the kitched was not very good. Just go to Villa Toledo in Costa Teguise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think the process of transporting it there and back fucks with the temperature because the it increases and later decreases so slowly that it's overcooked just by bringing it there and back again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

What toppings? Are we talking fresh Moz? White sauce? This is very important.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A pizza oven is about 450 C, so I'll figure it out based on this graph of the temperature in the Earth by depth.

0 to 500 C = 80 px
6.25 C per pixel
450/6.25 = 72 px

0 to 100 km = 54 px
1.85 km per pixel

Line y coordinate at 72 px x coordinate = 9 px
9*1.85 = ~17 km

The deepest hole we've ever actually drilled is the Kola superdeep borehole, which is a bit over 12 km deep. This is a fair bit short of our ideal pizza oven temperature, but it did see temperatures of 180 C, which is certainly enough to cook a pizza.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In the area I live, this would mean you could be standing right next to the pizza cooking bore, and still be outside of the delivery range.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The geothermal gradient is different at different parts of the earth. You can probably bake a pizza at much shallower depths at the mid ocean ridge, near a volcano, or even at an active orogeny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

i doubt i would have time for cooking at an active orogeny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Keep digging. You can't rush a good pizza.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Igneous extruded, is a type of pizza crust you'd get at a hipster pizza joint

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There must be infinitely many such positions if there is one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Or my car...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Luckily, we can mathematically prove this with the Intermediate Value Theorem!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Lets not, and say that we did.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This would be a good question for What If (xkcd).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there are some spots on earth's surface where this is true as well.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone wants to summon Durin's Bane.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

β€œIt’s-a me, Durino!”

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Bread sous vide basically

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably, but is that position also accessible to you to put the pizza there in the first place, and be able to get it back out? Because if it isn't, all you've done is sacrifice a perfectly good pizza. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Doesn't the Earth deserve the occasional pizzafice?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"Finally! A pizza! I'm SO sick of virgins!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Can't argue with that..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the place where the hidden ancient civilization of P'zz'r lives, a mystical forgotten place deep in the earth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'd rather be there, then the lost city of Atlanta.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you just leave it there it's likely to overcook. Take it out when it's done and enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Any overcooked item must have been perfectly cooked at one point assuming the item cooks evenly :P