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the center of the Earth is aglow

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.04.25

Apparently the center of the Earth is a super-dense ball of solid iron at six thousand degrees. If memory serves, that's about the same temperature as the surface of the Sun. Does that mean that there's a great deal of light being emited by the solid iron core into the surrounding iron molton .. hmm, what to do you call the sleeve of the core of a planet .. anyway, I guess it must be pretty bright?

rand()m quote

The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through. My first thought was always a cigarette.

—-Frederik Pohl