Posted on 01/26/2019 1:48:08 AM PST by BenLurkin
Scientists have been planning the project, called BEAMISH (Bed Access, Monitoring and Ice Sheet History), for the past 20 years. On Jan. 8, after 63 hours of continuous drilling using a hot-water drill (a large tool that melts the ice), they broke through the base of the Rutford Ice Stream in West Antarctica.
The team reached a depth of 7,060 feet (2,152 meters) and threaded instruments through the hole to record water pressure and ice temperature, and to measure how much the ice has deformed.
The team reached a depth of 7,060 feet (2,152 meters) and threaded instruments through the hole to record water pressure and ice temperature, and to measure how much the ice has deformed.
By drilling down deep, the team hopes to find out how long ago the Antarctic ice sheet last disappeared and how water and sediments may be nudging the ice toward the sea, according to the project's webpage. (Ice streams are kind of like frozen rivers where ice moves faster than the rest of the area.)
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only a five-year-old
believes any of this
Please tell Me this hole is to stuff pelousy and upchucky in.
Thanks for posting these devekopments .There’s a Canadian by the name of Patterson who in 2007 discovered by analyzing the sediments around coastal regions in the arctic ocean found that active sun spot solar cycles affected fish production. That drilling is only down about a mile and a half down and not into the base when the last ice cycle began. Which might provide a bio clue of the conditions which existed prior to the cycle change record . Also the steaming method being used might prevent getting biological samples of a given period as the antarctic icing developed.
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Okay, I’ll bite. What specifically is not believable, and specifically why is it not believable?
What little voice told you to disbelieve it - what’s your expertise that says it isn’t believable?
“Okay, Ill bite. What specifically is not believable, and specifically why is it not believable?”
Ever try drilling into just 3 inches of ice? Not easy. And these guys are claiming 1.5 miles? Oh, please.
(just trolling a bit for fun - I have no clue why he made that claim)
“continuous drilling using a hot-water drill (a large tool that melts the ice)”
Miss this part?
Love those names for the dumb and dumber duo~! Pelousy and Upchucky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Wt2EKE1j4
Is this like “Mel’s Hole”?
RIP A.B.
What could possibly go wrong?
They do not use a mechanical drill. They use a heated probe, which melts down through the ice. They used this method to locate a flight of brand new P 38 Lightnings left in Greenland in WW2.
If they find anything that upset the AGW narrative or modern archeological/geological dogma will we ever about it?
Let me know when they strike Oil.
That’s a lot of ice to melt!
I also thought about the suction head pressure, unless they are using glycol in drilling mud.
Then there is the problem of pretty much ruining any core samples.
But then I’m not a geophysical or Drilling Engineer and slept in a Hilton last night...
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