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Hard to dig through the caramel center.
The Soviets tried.
This is something we should fund. In Utah or some sh*t
some lunatic wrote:
The Soviets tried.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
Okay, but they weren'te trying to dig all the way through. If they had set their sites a little higher they might have gotten deeper, like those Americans who are only trying for 2:10 in the marathon, when they should be going for 2:07.
"The hole reached 12,262 m (40,230 ft) in 1989. In that year, the hole depth was expected to reach 13,500 m (44,300 ft) by the end of 1990 and 15,000 m (49,000 ft) by 1993.[5][6] However, because of higher-than-expected temperatures at this depth and location, 180 °C (356 °F) instead of expected 100 °C (212 °F), drilling deeper was deemed unfeasible and the drilling was stopped in 1992.[4] With the projected further increase in temperature with increasing depth, drilling to 15,000 m (49,000 ft) would have meant working at a temperature of 300 °C (570 °F), where the drill bit would no longer work."
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.
No one in their right mind would want to put a drill bit through the roof of Satan's house.
Wasn't there a Samuel l Jackson movie about this?
Good question. Imagine if they were able to build a luge-like tunnel through the center of the earth? That would be one crazy ride!
Someone didn't pay attention in 6th grade science. Haven't you seen the movie? There are dinosaurs and all kinds of crazy stuff down there
Don't do it. The Chinese will invade us.
Heat
Driller wrote:
Heat
Yeah, there will be some global warming. But we can tax it away.
you knew that wrote:
No one in their right mind would want to put a drill bit through the roof of Satan's house.
This. There were some Russian miners several years back who drilled deeply until the drill bit penetrated the roof of hell. Here is a link to a radio show that discussed it.
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=S_JF6acvQ_syou use this tool to locate your exit point on the other side of the globe.
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.
Hilarious
You'd expect the trolls to have already tunneled through, but apparently they're too busy posting on Internet message boards.
drhsdth wrote:
You'd expect the trolls to have already tunneled through, but apparently they're too busy posting on Internet message boards.
You, sir, are confusing trolls with dwarves, the miners of mountains. this is willful ignorance, up with which I won't put.