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GP stated because it's warm underground

• eythian 6y ago
  They also stated > if it was just down to the Sun this place would be uninhabitable which implies surface.
  • tialaramex 6y ago
    Yup. Bang to rights gov, I was under the impression that insolation isn't enough to do 275K on the surface (ie temperature above freezing) and thus you couldn't really live here, but actually I was wrong.
  • mr_toad 6y ago
    I think Kelvin meant that if the Sun was keeping the Earth that warm underground then the surface would be frying.