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Earth's Core Made In Miniature

Posted by Unknown on from the evil-geniuses-for-a-molten-tomorrow dept.

ananyo writes "A 3-meter-tall metal sphere full of molten sodium is about to start work modeling the Earth's core. The gigantic dynamo, which has taken researchers ten years to build, 'will generate a self-sustaining electromagnetic field that can be poked, prodded and coaxed for clues about Earth's dynamo, which is generated by the movement of liquid iron in the outer core.'"

12 of 175 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    what?

  2. Craving by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Suddenly I'm having a craving for a Cadbury Cream Egg.

  3. Inaccurate Model by Mr+Bubble · · Score: 3, Funny

    This model is inaccurate as it does not provide for the Reptilian space.

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    1. Re:Inaccurate Model by DrXym · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's inaccurate because the simulated Earth is not resting on a 4 elephants or a giant space turtle.

    2. Re:Inaccurate Model by rubycodez · · Score: 3, Funny

      That model has been disproven. You'll note the model has support system that quite accurately simulates the stiffness, damping and degrees of freedom of Turtles All The Way Down.

  4. Now work can begin... by Saishuuheiki · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...on our doomsday device to stop the earth's core from spinning.

    Small scale tests first before we build the full-size model.

  5. Yawn by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yawn! Wake me when they have a dual-core earth.

    The single-core model is bound to revolve to slowly!

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  6. Re:How they know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plus a lot of times theorists use rediculus...

    Wow, and here I am thinking calculus was hard.

  7. Re:How they know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine if it was three complex!

  8. Re:How can this produce accurate results? by u38cg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alternatively, you could stop worrying about these things, and enjoy the fact you've built a thirteen tonne sphere of rotating molten sodium. Enjoy yourself, you know?

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  9. Re:Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    what?

  10. Re:Woohoo! by Mindcontrolled · · Score: 5, Funny

    No highspeed cameras, but here you go - disposal of a couple of 1000 pounds of sodium metal by dumping it into a lake. Old newsreel footage from a time when men were men and chemists were the most manly of them....

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