[TML] "Dies the Fire"

[Timothy Little]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:34:02PM -0800, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> Yeah, and my figures for that may be off by a lot since I've seen a 
> figure almost a hundred times smaller mentioned in a site I checked 
> for more info. (ie something like 1:50,000 rather than 1:640)

Yes, the area calculation was out by a factor of about 50.


> The pressure at that depth is going to be such that I'm not sure
> organic life can exist above the bacteria level (and I only say that
> because we've found bacteria in rock formations miles below the
> surface).

The pressure is such that both water and air are solid.  I don't think
anything we think of as life could cope with that.


- Tim