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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 78 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you just leave it there it's likely to overcook. Take it out when it's done and enjoy.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Any overcooked item must have been perfectly cooked at one point assuming the item cooks evenly :P

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 49 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] 667@lemmy.radio 14 points 3 weeks ago

Bread sous vide basically

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

been there once - saw a delivery of some big canisters of gas 🤔

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

That's just for gas lightning (the customers into thinking they cook with magma heat)

[–] msage@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I had the chicken.

Unfortunatelly, the rest of the kitched was not very good. Just go to Villa Toledo in Costa Teguise.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are places on the planet Mercury that, if you were to find a lava tube of sufficient depth, would be the perfect temperature for human habitation. Some of the craters on Mercury's poles are never exposed to sunlight and actually have ice in them. Most of the planet is of course boiling hot when the Sun is overhead. But there should be some choice areas where you could skirt the balance of the two, and find lava tubes that, with proper sealing, would be quite comfortable for humans to occupy.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I hope this is true any source I could read more?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

It's called a pizza oven!

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 16 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Mavvik@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

i doubt i would have time for cooking at an active orogeny.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

In the area I live, this would mean you could be standing right next to the pizza cooking bore, and still be outside of the delivery range.

[–] bacon_saber@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Keep digging. You can't rush a good pizza.

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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)_/¯

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Doesn't the Earth deserve the occasional pizzafice?

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

"Finally! A pizza! I'm SO sick of virgins!"

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

Can't argue with that..

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

This would be a good question for What If (xkcd).

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

There was also a time when most of the universe was at the perfect temperature and density to cook pizza,I guess.

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

there are some spots on earth's surface where this is true as well.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the place where the hidden ancient civilization of P'zz'r lives, a mystical forgotten place deep in the earth

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'd rather be there, then the lost city of Atlanta.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You can probably find such a place on or close to the surface of the earth if it's close to an active volcano.

[–] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

That is under my foot

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Luckily, we can mathematically prove this with the Intermediate Value Theorem!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lets not, and say that we did.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There must be infinitely many such positions if there is one

[–] qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Or my car...

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone wants to summon Durin's Bane.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

“It’s-a me, Durino!”

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Only if temperature distribution is a continuous function.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think the process of transporting it there and back fucks with the temperature because the it increases and later decreases so slowly that it's overcooked just by bringing it there and back again.

[–] overflowingmemory@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] RedStrider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

my epic plan

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Igneous extruded, is a type of pizza crust you'd get at a hipster pizza joint

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

What toppings? Are we talking fresh Moz? White sauce? This is very important.