How come there has never been a bona fide attempt to dig a hole completely through Earth.

Define "bona fide attempt."

Shale and his buddy tried to dig through the earth in grade school.

Obama tried to make a country based on greed support each other with universal medical care.

I would say that Shale had a better chance.

what is hopeless? wrote:

Define "bona fide attempt."

Shale and his buddy tried to dig through the earth in grade school.

Obama tried to make a country based on greed support each other with universal medical care.

I would say that Shale had a better chance.

Humans have been known to cooperate and exhibit altruism from time to time. However, our track record at things like time travel and drilling through the earth's core is thus far unproven.

Cali4nia wrote:

David and Freddie wrote:

The solution is no drill bit but water pressure. I pointed a garden hose toward the ground and it made a hole. The hole got deeper, but really not wider so I kept pushing the hose deeper. My dad was really POed when he had to cut the buried part off when we couldn't pull it from the ground.

Now there are high PSI water jets that cuts thru metal so I'm sure soil and rock wouldn't be a problem.

Inner-planetary water-slide.

Wouldn't work, there's little to no gravity at the core.

jfivcy wrote:

They tried, turns out molten rock under pressure behaves like viscous liquid making the idea of 'drilling' a little far-fetched. May as well try and drill honey with a knife.

The also got about as far down as the skin on an apple, if the apple were the size of earth. So it seems unlikely conditions get better.

Likely never see another attempt as it'd be very difficult to attract private funds for such a project with no clear commercial use.

This is why I miss the Soviet Union. They said, "Hey, lets see how far we dig a hole into the Earth" and got going on that until they went as deep as they could.

The Chinese need to start picking up the slack on the useless project front. It just does not work in quasi-democratic countries like the USA.

vivalarepublica wrote:

This is why I miss the Soviet Union. They said, "Hey, lets see how far we dig a hole into the Earth" and got going on that until they went as deep as they could.

The Chinese need to start picking up the slack on the useless project front. It just does not work in quasi-democratic countries like the USA.

If it is possible to miss the USSR, this would be one of the few reasons why. They may have disregarded some of their constituents to fund the project, but hey, gotta make sacrifices somewhere for monumental gains.

Cali4nia wrote:

Inner-planetary water-slide.

I'd go for an inter-planetary water slide. How cool would that be?

Imagine when you hit terminal velocity flying down this awesome tunnel. when you hit the center, gravity flips, then you'd keep flying the other way with gravity pulling you back, eventually pulling you back the other way, til you go back once again to eventually after much rubber banding, end up in the center of the earth where gravity is nuetral.

Best slide, EVER

They have been to the tip of Hell and accidentally drilled through and heard the torturous screams of human souls crying out in anguish. You can hear the recordings they made.

http://www.av1611.org/hell.html

Kipketer_Pumpkin_Eater wrote:

what is hopeless? wrote:

Define "bona fide attempt."

Shale and his buddy tried to dig through the earth in grade school.

Obama tried to make a country based on greed support each other with universal medical care.

I would say that Shale had a better chance.

Humans have been known to cooperate and exhibit altruism from time to time. However, our track record at things like time travel and drilling through the earth's core is thus far unproven.

From time to time humans have managed some pretty impressive engineering projects.

I'm betting on a whole through the earth before universal health care in the US.

average libtard wrote:

Driller wrote:

Heat

Yeah, there will be some global warming. But we can tax it away.

Taxes discourage everything else, so I imagine they can keep heat away to.

Slightly deeper than Shale and his buddy.

http://www.bizarbin.com/amazing-stuff-001/

Anon wrote:

Imagine when you hit terminal velocity flying down this awesome tunnel. when you hit the center, gravity flips, then you'd keep flying the other way with gravity pulling you back, eventually pulling you back the other way, til you go back once again to eventually after much rubber banding, end up in the center of the earth where gravity is nuetral.

Best slide, EVER

As an added bonus, this would provide for perfectly balanced roasting.

Tasty!

Shale wrote:

In 3rd grade Steve B. and I undertook this project and it was a very serious effort. Using a compass, pencils and a 12" ruler we would dig at recess and had a hole about 4" deep before we hit a root. The knife Steve procured from the lunchroom would not cut through the root so we aborted the project after two days.

+1

Oh little Thomas, this is a cute question. Remember, there are already holes all the way through Earth. Neutrinos go through them every day.

Seriously, though, if we drilled from the US, we'd pop out in the Indian Ocean, and all that water would pour into the middle of the Earth. We'd lose a ton of water AND put out the fire in the core. Clearly that is why the US has never tried this - too much to lose.