CrinterScaked@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a YearEnglish
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1 year agoIf you take out the employer-side taxes and cost of benefits, maybe. A fair number of their employees must be software engineers, and that much compensation isn’t unreasonable for expert software engineers.
Black body radiation was my thought as well. It may not be the average including the inner layers, but it’s the average at the crust. About -1°F according to Wikipedia.
To add to this, is probably hard because the composition of the interior of the earth is a lot of guesswork. We can only directly observe how much heat is coming out of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_history_of_Earth