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Transmit plasma argon miles through a wave guide? Big step from blasting holes in basalt in a lab.

If there are mobile super critical fluids at depth, and there seem to be, get back to me on your pressure control plans. Every hole I ever drilled I saw as potentially opening Pandora’s Box of horrors if pressured fluids were not contained and controlled.

The deepest I have actually drilled, meaning doing the engineering and being project manager, is right at 30,000 feet so I guess my experience in this regard may not be relevant to the plans of these brilliant professors.

There is a passage in Genesis that has always caught my attention. Two of them actually. We think we actually know what all this means and some of the suggestions or implications about that understanding are just non-sensical.

Genesis 1:6-8

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Some think the Firmament is just the heavens, verse 8. I’m not so certain of that. I don’t think WE know.

And the account of the flood paraphrased but referenced here:

https://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c010.html

The “fountains of the great deep” are mentioned before the “windows of heaven,” indicating either relative importance or the order of events.

What are the “fountains of the great deep?” This phrase is used only in Genesis 7:11. “Fountains of the deep” is used in Genesis 8:2, where it clearly refers to the same thing, and Proverbs 8:28, where the precise meaning is not clear. “The great deep” is used three other times: Isaiah 51:10, where it clearly refers to the ocean; Amos 7:4, where God’s fire of judgment is said to dry up the great deep, probably the oceans; and Psalm 36:6 where it is used metaphorically of the depth of God’s justice/judgment. “The deep” is used more often, and usually refers to the oceans (e.g., Genesis 1:2; Job 38:30, 41:32; Psalm 42:7, 104:6; Isaiah 51:10, 63:13; Ezekiel 26:19; Jonah 2:3), but sometimes to subterranean sources of water (Ezekiel 31:4, 15). The Hebrew word (mayan) translated “fountains” means “fountain, spring, well.”[1]

So, the “fountains of the great deep” are probably oceanic or possibly subterranean sources of water. In the context of the flood account, it could mean both.