[SunkenCiv]

A hot spring in Panama where researchers collected fluids and gases to trace the movement of materials from the mantle.

Image credit: Peter Barry/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

[taxcontrol]

My theory - when the impact the Chicxulub crater was created, the shockwave created millions of smaller fractures in the earth’s crust in that region. This allows smaller volumes of fluids and gasses to escape on a regular basis.

[Honest Nigerian]

Hmmmmm.....
They need to do an MRI and a CT-scan of the earth?
Maybe a PET scan, too?
I am guessing the data is available sort of for the taking.
Nikolai Tesla could probably have answered the researcher’s questions.

[BipolarBob]

I always thought it was the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull that was the entry/exit point.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Earth, Wind, & Fire!

[higgmeister]

This never-before-discovered form of transport may also help explain why Panama has very few active volcanoes.

Or not I suppose.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Journey to the Center of the Earth Part II: The Canal Entry

[drSteve78]

The Earth is just a wadded up ball of chewed gum that God spit out, after he was done with it.

[DannyTN]

I was thinking that air in the center of the world would stagnate if there is only an opening at the polar cap. So this would allow the wind to circulate through the world at the center of the earth.

Obligatory picture of Anita Briem

[hadaclueonce]

Your government grant money at work

[Jumper]

I probably drank from that same muddy water when we were left in the jungle for four days with one day’s rations. Eventually we made our way 35 miles away and we used the machatte that I was carrying to hack out an LZ for a single chopper to ferry our platoon out of the jungle. That happened during an earthquake in Guatemala in which all the Army assets were diverted to support. We all had sugar cane growing wild to chew on but otherwise we were drinking mud water from the jungle. Man we tough young paratroopers. The reason we went out was to chase Cuban soldiers that were in the country, illegally, and it wasn’t long before some dictator was shot down or crashed his plane.... We were given steaks at the mess hall but we couldn’t eat more than a few bites. All of us got seriously buzzed on two 6% beers after all that. Good times. Never forgot the black water mud and sucking the canteens thru the clothing and it clogging up like cig butts with nicotine.