Is the center of the Earth hot or cold?

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People want to fall in love (and, I'd like to think, actually do fall in love) all the time, so I get drawn into stories where nice, decent folks tirelessly search the cold, cold Earth for that Special Someone.

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What folks seem to ignore is the enormous amount of the earth that is currently a hellscape because its so cold.

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It now sits over a million km from Earth, taking astonishing vistas of the cold and dusty cosmos.

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WWF, meanwhile, looked at conditions at the Earth's other climatic extreme - the cold of the Antarctic peninsula.

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They are filled with down-to-earth locals who, in spite of the cold stare you may receive upon entering, will inevitably prove friendly.

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Once, when winters were cold and the world seemed large, creatures roamed the earth who were permissive on social issues and at ease with big government, yet remained ever faithful to the gods of business and finance.

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Materials and technologies that are suited for a vacuum, zero gravity, and extreme cold and heat are not the ones we typically can use on Earth.

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"An increase in land plant abundance may have occurred at the time just before the period known as the Cambrian Explosion, when the next Snowball Earth period failed to occur because temperatures did not get cold enough, " he added.

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