Disney-comics digest #273.

[Don Rosa]

WILMER:
	You are welcome to send me some data, but I would need it
IMMEDIATELY. As I always say, what differentiates anything I might do
from "art" is that I must get it done in a certain amount of time. I DO
spend extra time on my writing and drawing of stories like these, but
not THAT much extra, or it would never even approach a living wage. So,
I need ALL my data on hand in just a few days since I must have my story
pretty much written by then.
	I have a great amount of technical data on the Earth's core
right now, with my own technical books and a trip to the library to
supplement them. There are lots of "impossible" technical problems to
overcome -- ONE such problem is easy enough to explain away, but when I
have 3 or 4 to deal with in one story, even if my explanations are or
sound scientificly feasible, I would lose too much story time explaining
stuff and lose the readers who aren't willing to suspend disbelief that
many times in one tale. I can handle the pressure problems and heat
problems... but I need a solid shaft of rock straight to the Earth's
core, and I can't figure out how to explain that'n when there's umpteen
thousand miles of seething, swirling molten matter to get through. Even
if I had an explanation for a shaft, it would instantly be destroyed by
the surrounding irresistable currents.
	As a geophysicist you could help GREATLY. In fact, that's
amazing that such would pop up right when I need him, though you may not
be able to help anyhow. I know that the idea of the interior of the
Earth is mostly molten is an ASSUMPTION based on sound-wave data. Are
there any theories, even wacky ones, to explain this data without the
earth's outer core being all molten? (For interested readers, the
Earth's INNER core is assumed to be solid, so I'm okay if I can get that
far.)
	And a question for you on top of that: one book I have claims
that the outer core is molten, yet, due to the unimagineable pressures,
it is also as "hard as steel". This makes a certain amount of sense, but
I can't picture something molten and hard at the same time. Help me out
here. This can't be my solution since, even if it IS as 'hard as steel',
if you bored a hole through it, the pressure would immediatle reshape
the steely-hard matter to fill the hole back in. 
	Folks, if you are strangely fascinated by how I go about writing
these alleged "classic" stories of mine (?), you're seeing it being done
right before your eyes. This is the way I wrestle with ALL my stories.
But I'm afraid this one might pin me for three.