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Rather, the system takes advantage of the fact that the earth underneath Fort Knox (like many places across the country) maintains a more or less constant temperature of 57 degrees year around.
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'Father says the earth got too hot underneath, like you do in bed sometimes, so it just hunched up its shoulders, and the sea had to slip off, like the blankets do off us, and the shoulder was left sticking out, and turned into dry land.
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For instance, when you do combustion studies, flames on Earth burn in a teardrop fashion because the air comes in from underneath it and feeds the flame, but we can't do that here since the air doesn't know where up is, there's no convection.
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