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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -25/+60You mean my ex's vagina?
- nicerobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Favorite quote:
"The last of the cores to be plucked from from the borehole were dated to be about 2.7 billion years old, or roughly 32 million times older than Abe Vigoda." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Dugg for digging!
- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20What's up with kids always wanting to Digg to China?
If you'd like to know what's on the exact opposite side of the world from you, try this:
http://map.pequenopolis.com/ - idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20In Soviet Russia, holes digg you.
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I totally dugg deeper than that while I was trying to dig to China.
- Blfrg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I wonder if kids in China try to dig to America?
- Neticule, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I once viewed a pornographic moving picture with the same title as this article, needless to say, if its anything like the movie, we are all in for a nice treat!
- tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Don't forget to check up on Abe Vigoda's Alive/Dead status here http://www.abevigoda.com/
There's also a firefox extension that keeps track of Abe's status as well. - beelz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+87.5 miles
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8When you fall into a bottomless pit, you die of starvation.
- jchalmer85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Based on what mythbusters determined to be the terminal velocity of a penny (around 55 mph, from the penny off the empire statebuilding myth) A penny dropped into that hole would take, oh, roughly 8 minutes to hit the bottom. 8 minutes! Can you imagine sitting there waiting for the sound to come back (imagining also that this was feasible)?
- jull1234, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wow, Antarctica, wasn't really expecting that.
- JimV, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is the kind of stuff that I wouldn't mind seeing money going towards. Fascinating!
- hodyoaten, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The thing that is REALLY missing is the sideshow story about the drillers supposedly reaching hell.
http://www.spi.com.sg/stories/soh/main.htm (alleged hell sounds on the .ra clip are at 2:00)
Here's the real scoop:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm - DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It's amazing what a little Stoli will make you do
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6They've really got to upgrade from the moho mine to the moho metal maker if they ever want to become a serious miltary power. Unless they just want to rush the enemy with a bunch of peewees.
- ericpp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was actually told about the "hell hole" story in Sunday school class when I was a youngin...
- capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agreed - his material is always really interesting and relevant to digg... I've even seen him occasionally take the time to comment on digg forums about submissions written by him that were posted on digg which is also very cool.
- vpisteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Um, that's California, dude.
EDIT: Oh, you're talking about the earthscope guys. Thought you'd found the rig in the story. Ignore me. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Was it a Total Annihilation Reference? or have I just played too many video games for my own good?
- D33pW0und, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very interesting. Could be more interesting to see if a technological advance allows drilling deeper than the Russians managed.
- Takteek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That guy Alan Bellows writes the best articles.
- le0ne, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I wonder what happens when you drill into a fault like these guys... http://www.earthscope.org/safod/
Sweet, found the drill rig on goolge maps.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=35.974012,-120.552131&spn=0.002127,0.004093&t=h&om=1 - ThankTheCheese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Someone should tell the Mafia about this, then maybe they'll stop dumping bodies in the waterways ;)
- Parky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oil companies go on about 3,000,000 pounds for the first half a km after that the costs get all silly because it gets a lot more difficult. (Im a geologist)
That probably cost billons to drill so that power station doesnt look to cheap. Your much better of in Iceland where you dont have to drill that deep to get high temperatures. - Parky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not really youll hit terminal velocity.
If the hole was through the earth you would never make it to the other side because of resistance and you would come to rest (after oscilating for a while) in the center of the earth where you would probably die of starvation or lack or water (unless someone kept chucking stuff down for you). - Stoutlimb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2After reading the comments, there were only like 5 comments so far that weren't completely lame, or a dumb attempt at humour. Do Diggers truly have nothing interesting to add to this?
To add my constructive 2 cents to this, that hole would have made one hell of a way to boil water. I wonder if they use it as a thermal generator. I wonder how cost effective digging deep holes like that is, if you slap a power generator on top? - slickfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2when i'm rich i'm definately putting money towards advancing this task....
- phatvolvo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2TA! dugg.
awesome. totally awesome. - dreadsword, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even though there's a google map link at the bottom of the Damn Interesting article, I mapped it on BlockRocker too as you can see some other pictures in the (rough) area - desolate damn part of the world up there, and I'm coming from *Winnipeg*.
http://blockrocker.com/index.php?ptype=Map&pmode=category&pcat=&platt=69.5115&plongt=30.6079&pzoom=6 - StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Anyone else catch that reference? I feel like I'm the only one.
- jull1234, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes indeed. Had me for a second.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They also missed the Dr. Who episode, Inferno:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28Doctor_Who%29 - bmson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dame, didn't the Soviets read the Donald Ducks comics.
In one issue they drilled to into the core and the earth got F**ked - jull1234, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hells yeah. Coast to Coast is teh *****. I always wanted to know more about the story behind that legend. +Digg
- Anomaly427, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the Japanese beat them to it recently by drilling from deep ocean sites... was on Digg or /. some time back.
- ThankTheCheese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1don't be rediculous...it's made of nougat.
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It was a Homestar Runner reference, but I guess no one caught it...
- crckr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3you will more likely be burned to death by air friction
(but that depends on when you had your last supper :) - mookieXL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Everyone start burying this comment. let's see if it can get even deeper
- hudef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Another unexpected find was a menagerie of microscopic fossils as deep as 6.7 kilometers below the surface. Twenty-four distinct species of plankton microfossils were found, and they were discovered to have carbon and nitrogen coverings rather than the typical limestone or silica. Despite the harsh environment of heat and pressure, the microscopic remains were remarkably intact."
That has to be the most amazing discovery! The Bhagavad-gita must be right: life is not contingent upon "favorable" material circumstance. It exists everywhere. - Lacero, on 10/12/2007, -14/+15"began an ambitious drilling project whose goal was to penetrate the Earth's upper crust and sample the warm, mysterious area"
I don't know any girls named "Earth" but that phrase just sounds diiiirty. - Steel_Blue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Heh, I liked the Total Annihalation reference too.
- jerrygofixit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'll just go ahead and bookmark this under "40 year old news, useful when I finish my time machine". Don't you guys have the history channel or discovery or something?
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Damn, 12.26km deep, and 230mm wide.
150 square metres of rock (from that branch of the hole)
And "flowing" shut at the bottom at under 200ºC
That's quite an impressive hole... Pity it's not wide enough to send a person down, it would make an interesting "trip". - randersontt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you could dig a hole all the way through the Earth, and then you jumped into it would you become suspended in the middle of the Earth? As you approached that point would you slow down? Or would you going flying past it and spring back and forth until settling in the middle?
Wouldn't it be funny if we found out that the Earth actually had a chewy, chocolaty center? - redneckblues, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4In Soviet Russia, grave dig you!
- Web_Weasel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2They're gonna release Cthulhu soon.
- RJNavarrete, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"Massive-scale Scientific Experiment or Cheesy Porn Video Title?
Tune in next week to find out!"
In all seriousness... Whoa. That's pretty deep.
Keep going you crazy Russians! -
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