Posted on 04/26/2016 7:27:33 PM PDT by MtnClimber
....Science, of course, has a habit of turning the fantastic into the prosaic. But 150 years on from Verne’s work, researchers have actually begun a project to drill through the Earth’s crust for the first time, hoping to penetrate more than 5km beneath the sea bed to reach the mantle below. Needless to say, it is most unlikely to reveal monsters living inside the Earth. But if we do look down in search of life, what do we find?
The best way to find underground creatures is to travel into the depths of a cave. The first things you’re likely to come across are spiders – big ones, such as Meta menardi (the European Cave Spider). Meta is actually a troglophile, a species that can spend its whole life underground but can also live outside caves. Living to at least 30 metres inside caves, it makes webs to catch flies, but mostly preys on woodlice and millipedes on the cave walls. Look up and you may see its teardrop-shaped egg cocoons hanging from the roof.
I remember a few years back hearing a recording supposedly from a Russian deep drilling project which sounded like a bunch of hideous screams & tormented wailing. I don’t know if it was really Hell or not, but it was the creepiest thing I’ve ever heard and I couldn’t listen to it very long.
Hadals!
“Its dead Jim”
Thank you!
I remember my father telling me about Project Molehole. Yes it went away without so much as a whimper, perfect description.
As for the other comments on here...the humor on FR; one of the things I love about it, lol!
There is nothing on Earth more deadly, more scary, nor more destructive than the virus.
Coast-2-Coast played it frequently after midnight, EST.
Wake me when they find something that won’t melt the drill bits...
;’)
Project Mohole and a later Russian attempt that achieved an even greater depth both died “without a whimper” because funding was cut.
And the cave spiders are Shelob’s children.
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