• Skua
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    1311 hours ago

    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.

    Edit: I fucked up, see exchange with AlexanderESmith below

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1210 hours ago

      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.

    • AlexanderESmith
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      19 hours ago

      450 C is 842 F. A pizza oven doesn’t get anywhere near that temperature. That’s half-way to cremation.

      Pizza ovens are usually between 475 and 550 F (246-287C)

      • @[email protected]
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        8 hours ago

        Bro it literally took me 4 seconds to find out that you’re talking out of your ass