Posted on 05/21/2011 2:39:22 PM PDT by Windflier
(PhysOrg.com) -- In what can only be described as a mammoth undertaking, scientists, led by British co-chiefs, Dr Damon Teagle of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England and Dr Benoit Ildefonse from Montpellier University in France, have announced jointly in an article in Nature that they intend to drill a hole through the Earth’s crust and into the mantle; a feat never before accomplished, much less seriously attempted.
Like someone else said; "and they thought the Gulf oil well was hard to cap."
When Tom chooses the South Pole as the spot to hunt for molten iron with his earth blaster, his closest friends raise their eyebrows. Even Chow Winkler, the expedition's genial Texan cook, says, "Brand my thermopile, if the young inventor ain't plumb loco!"
There was a Dana Andrews Brit made sci fi flick that dealt with this very topic, though they used a rocket with a nuke down an African volcano instead of drilling.The results were not good to say the least.
Why don’t they just go to the North Pole, and travel within the Earth then drill up? Wouldn’t it be easier?
Probably full of cheap champagne....
Nah, all the tree roots would get in the way.
On Netflix instaflix right now. I just saw it a few nights ago. It is awesome.
Of COURSE there is a reason! When the earth was inflated, they had to use hydrogen,because not enough of it had been fused to helium yet.
The larger reason is that it is what keeps the earth bouyant enough to float above the sun.
“Awesome! What could possibly go wrong.
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Gonna release all the other Marxist Obots that are burning in Hell, don’tcha know :D
Maybe that's the plan!
As long as they don’t bring any oil to the surface. . . .
It's not super hot by the time it reaches the surface.
We’re trying to incite a good panic here.
knock it off.
my thoughts exactly
Wonder if anyone ever watched that movie?
Funny, I thought when they put that prick in the White Hut it was a done deal.
I just spent the last while watching early Ren & Stimpy episodes and realizing how horrible and corrupting they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdIf_gx_e0&NR=1
FWIW, that had been claimed - read the link. I read about these facts in other publications, so there is something to the facts (but perhaps not to their interpretation.)
But as I understand the drilling at the Kola Superdeep was stopped in part because the funding dried up and in part because every additional foot was immensely expensive. It took something like a week to pull the string out to service the tool, and another week to lower it back... Basically the depth that was reached was at the limit of our current drilling technologies. Perhaps with the latest improvements another mile can be made. But it's 4,000 miles to the center of Earth; they can't be traversed without an autonomous machine that is protected by force fields (not with a material, short of Unobtainium;) it had been proposed many times in science fiction.
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