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Due to worrisome reason, the 'Entrance to Hell' in Russia is sealed
Jerusalem Post ^ | 5/14/2024 | WALLA!

Posted on 05/15/2024 4:31:57 AM PDT by bert

The Russian borehole, called "the entrance to hell," drilled over 12 kilometers deep and encountered unexpected water.

Near the Norwegian border somewhere in the depths of the Arctic Circle in Russia lies the deepest hole ever drilled, once called "the entrance to hell."

The hole was a man-made creation through drilling, creating a depth of over 12 kilometers; which is the height of Mount Everest and Mount Fuji combined.

According to the BBC, locals say the hole, located near the Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia, is so deep they can hear the screams of souls from hell. This hole is incredibly deep and narrow, with a width no larger than an average dinner plate.

It took nearly 20 years to drill so deep, but the hole is only a third of the way through Earth's crust with temperatures reaching 180 degrees Celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit.)

Unraveling the Earth's depths

It's the deepest man-made hole on Earth, made in a project between May 24, 1970, and 1989. Multiple boreholes were drilled throughout the years branching from a central shaft, with the deepest being drilled in 1989 and reaching 12,262 meters, remaining the deepest artificial point on Earth to this day.

Drilling halted due to extreme heat at a depth of 12.5 km beneath the Earth's surface, causing drilling equipment to malfunction. Despite the impressive depth achievement, it only reached a quarter of Earth's crust that has an average thickness of 30 km. In 1994, drilling officially ceased, and Russia awaited scientific advancements to continue drilling.

A young scientist who worked on a similar borehole project in Germany commented on the Russian hole saying, "When the Russians began drilling, they claimed to have found abundant water, but most scientists didn't believe it. There was a prevailing understanding among Western scientists that the crust was so dense 5 km down that water couldn't penetrate it."

Similar to the Space Race, there was a race to explore the unknown "deep frontier." The US initiated it in 1950 with the first serious plan to drill into the Earth's crust, followed by the Soviets in 1970 and Germany following the two countries in 1990.

Sealing the entrance The latest drilling discovery in Kola revealed rocks aged 2.7 billion years, much wetter than expected. Previously, scientists didn't anticipate water at such depths, expecting instead a basalt layer beneath the continent's granite.

However, they found metamorphic granite (also called gneiss) beneath the granite crust. As the continental crust was granite throughout, it was evidence of plate tectonics, a theory only recently accepted as fact as drilling progressed.

So why did they stop drilling? Despite the incredible depth of the hole, the drilling teams only managed to reach one-third of the way into the Earth's crust. As they approached the uppermost layer of the Earth's crust, things heated up.

At the bottom of the hole, temperatures reached 180 degrees - twice as hot as expected - and much too hot to continue. Since the drilling equipment broke down, and reports suggest there wasn't funding for such projects, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the entire facility was shut down.


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: borehole; deepfrontier; drill; russia; theentrancetohell
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To: USAF1985; Track9

The article says the depth i 12 kilometers.

That is, 12262 meters deep.


21 posted on 05/15/2024 6:38:49 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: imabadboy99
Just more evidence that Russia should be a natural ally of Christendom instead of us allowing the neoCON globohomo zeeper scum to prod Russia into being a perpetual boogeyman / enemy.

When Communism finally collapsed in Russia, there was such a great moral and spiritual vacuum it seems that everyone in the nation, without even any debate or disagreement, returned to Christ and traditional Russian culture.

We have changed positions with them. We are the (neo) marxists now.

22 posted on 05/15/2024 6:57:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: bert

Oh, I get it. I was wondering where those numbers came from.


23 posted on 05/15/2024 6:58:52 AM PDT by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: bert

Hmmm, I thought the deepest drilled hole belonged to Kamala Harris


24 posted on 05/15/2024 7:05:31 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: bert

No wonder global warming isn’t working. Mom always told them to shut the door—stop letting all the heat out.


25 posted on 05/15/2024 7:53:24 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: glorgau

ISWYDT


26 posted on 05/15/2024 7:53:49 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: imabadboy99

I totally agree. Trump tried; but they are so lazy as well as dumb, always fighting their childhood’s war because it’s the only one they were forced to learn about.


27 posted on 05/15/2024 7:55:34 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Track9
Those numbers add up to 13.

Is that a 6 or a 5 next to the end?

If a 5, it adds up to 12 (and in numerology, it's 3).

If a 6, it adds up to 13 (and in numerology, it's 4).

28 posted on 05/15/2024 7:58:32 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Art Bell (may he rest in peace)

played a tape of the sounds which came from that hole many times.

it did not sound wholesome and happy.


29 posted on 05/15/2024 8:41:08 AM PDT by algore
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To: BigFreakinToad

“Hmmm, I thought the deepest drilled hole belonged to Kamala Harris”

no, there are lots which have been drilled deeper. One of them even testified at a trial the other day.


30 posted on 05/15/2024 8:43:09 AM PDT by algore
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To: algore

HA!!
Yeah, that one was worried about being shot by nuts. Hate to tell her, but she’s been shot a lot by nuts


31 posted on 05/15/2024 8:46:49 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: ansel12
In 1987 they found that the bolts on that lid had been unscrewed and the lid opened. The bolts had been unscrewed from the inside......... or not.

The accidentally taken video of the giant worm near the opening was much more worrisome.

32 posted on 05/15/2024 8:49:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: bert

33 posted on 05/15/2024 8:53:07 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: bert

Keep the lid on it, we don’t want to have another “Baby Jessica”.


34 posted on 05/15/2024 9:04:05 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Hatteras

“I remember hearing the audio taken from this hole on Art Bell’s show years ago. Entrance to Hell sounds about right”.

Skeptic here.

Hear “trees that talk” on YT Shorts.


35 posted on 05/15/2024 1:24:41 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: nesnah

YES! I remember that episode. It was kinda creepy watching as a kid.


36 posted on 05/15/2024 3:37:24 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

It was!


37 posted on 05/15/2024 3:42:59 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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