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There exists a position inside the earth where it is possible to cook a perfect pizza just by leaving it there (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by RedStrider@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 15 points 1 week 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.

[–] Mavvik@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week 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.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days 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.

[–] bacon_saber@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

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