People need to think about the crazy potential of geothermal energy in general. Thanks for bringing that up 🌋 . But the problem here: How do we get the Pizza down there 🍕. Folding the Pizza through a Borehole 🗼? How stable is the temperature at 100°C spots?
there are some spots on earth’s surface where this is true as well.
Like inside my oven.
Whoa
This is the place where the hidden ancient civilization of P’zz’r lives, a mystical forgotten place deep in the earth
I’d rather be there, then the lost city of Atlanta.
Baking Bread with Lava in Iceland (actually with hot springs heated by lava)
I need
Bread sous vide basically
If you just leave it there it’s likely to overcook. Take it out when it’s done and enjoy.
Any overcooked item must have been perfectly cooked at one point assuming the item cooks evenly :P
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. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Doesn’t the Earth deserve the occasional pizzafice?
Can’t argue with that…
“Finally! A pizza! I’m SO sick of virgins!”
This would be a good question for What If (xkcd).
Someone wants to summon Durin’s Bane.
“It’s-a me, Durino!”
Only if temperature distribution is a continuous function.
There must be infinitely many such positions if there is one
They’re called ovens.
Or my car…
Luckily, we can mathematically prove this with the Intermediate Value Theorem!
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.
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.
i doubt i would have time for cooking at an active orogeny.
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.
Yeah, I had the chicken.
Unfortunatelly, the rest of the kitched was not very good. Just go to Villa Toledo in Costa Teguise.
been there once - saw a delivery of some big canisters of gas 🤔
That’s just for gas lightning (the customers into thinking they cook with magma heat)
What toppings? Are we talking fresh Moz? White sauce? This is very important.
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.