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Is Earth mostly liquid, like a water balloon? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't believe the "solid" core is solid in any sense of the word we can relate to; kinda like how Jupiters volume is mostly gas, yet 99% of that is at densities greater than the Mariana trench — where you would vaporize, and would feel more solid to us that anything we've experienced — and the "solid" core is more like a molten hydrogen liquid; hotter than the surface of the sun (but not hot enough for fusion).