Posted on 08/06/2025 8:45:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Project Mohole was highly successful in developing the technology for deep drilling from untethered floating platforms. The present-day offshore oil industry owes its existence to Project Mohole.
As for actually drilling to the Mohorovic Discontinuity? Congress and Big Media, as usual, had their heads firmly stuck in the usual dark, damp, stinky place and torpedoed the project.
LOL! That has never occurred to me before. Great point!
I loved that movie.
(magma)
I’m thinking a movie gif will show up
Big deal. The deepest well in America is the Bertha Rogers #1 in Roger Mills, County, Oklahoma. It went to 31,441’ back in 1974. They will find nothing and be happy with it. It will be just another one of millions of dry holes in the world.
“Why China Wants to Dig Into the Cretaceous”
They are hoping to link up with the hole my dog started here.
That would give a tunnel all the way through the earth
31,441 ft = 9583.2 m
I had a dog once that dug a hole one night that was at least five feet deep. I have no idea why he did it............
A big flashlight?
Well then it will become a known magma chamber.
We use feet here in ‘Merica, not them meters.
That’s a hole six mile deep. Russia has an oil well that is more than 7.5 miles deep.
Well, at least it accomplished that before falling apart...
Looking for the creamed carrots I buried, Mom always said: “Clean your plate - there is starving Chinese man who’d like that food!”
First thing mentioned after “Why...” heading is climate shift. Scientists’ whole world view resolve around climate shifts. My prediction is they will discover some information seven miles deep that will allow them to formulate some theories that produce the conclusion they we need more government control.
Project Mohole (1966) was part of the Int’l Geophysical Year, which began in the 1950s, but continued much longer. The drilling was done from a ship, because parts of the ocean floor lack the layer of crust like the one we all live on.
I read a pretty short book about it (geared to kids, which I was at the time) in school; I must have Found it in the Jr High library during one of our elementary class afternoons there, probably 3rd grade.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/aapg/aapgbull/article-abstract/50/3/651/552542/Project-Mohole
https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2023/07/the-legacy-of-project-mohole.html
https://www.vox.com/unexplainable/22276597/project-mohole-deep-ocean-drilling-unexplainable-podcast
They finally found a way around the flood tunnels at Oak Island. They’re after the Ark of the Covenant and Shakespeare’s unpublished works!
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