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.
Gneiss article!
“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.”
That’s the worrisome reason?
Project MOHO. Marianish Trench. Early 1960s started 7 miles down.
Interesting to me that the Russians refer to this thing in Biblical terminology.
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.
Those numbers add up to 13.
oh, nevermind. I forgot that our “leaders” are not defenders of Christendom in the West. They are defenders and religious zealots for the false religion of “diversity” that they seek to replace Christianity with.
The satanic Bush family, and demonic obama/soetero/biden/romney/ paul RYNO self-appointed elite globohomos must be really proud of destroying Christendom....
Talk about poking the bear!
I remember hearing the audio taken from this hole on Art Bell’s show years ago. Entrance to Hell sounds about right
At the bottom of the hole, temperatures reached 180 degrees - twice as hot as expected.
Russian propaganda.
Algore said it was millions of degrees down there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQHJIseqng
We are going to need Superman
“That’s the worrisome reason?”
This annoys the heck out of me. If the title had been, “Russians stop drilling deepest hole ever,” it would get about x clicks. But put in some threatening wording and that can be multiplied by ten. That’s ten times the income. I’m sure a better and actually true to the article headline could be created if the author spent a few minutes on it. Maybe, “Unexpected discovery leads to deepest hole being sealed.” At least it isn’t a lie. But the actual reason was probably money.
Another pet peeve is those “See who died this year” videos and they show someone in the thumbnail who is really young and popular or important, like maybe Trump’s son. You watch the whole thing, and that person isn’t in it. I’ve learned most of the tricks and never click on anything with that kind of bait.
Art Bell’s show came to mind here as well
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.
That sound came from a movie.
The recording of “tormented screams” was later found to be looped together from various sound effects, sometimes identified as the soundtrack of the 1972 movie Baron Blood.
“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.”
The left needs an enemy to blame. That enemy needs to be white so they won’t feel racist for hating them. Does anyone think millions of whites coming across our border would be permitted by the dims? Not for one minute! I think Russia could be an ally, and a good one, but the dims and their military industrial complex will never allow it. There is just too much money to be made maintaining the status quo.
“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.”
I heard the story back in the mid 1980s. Later an atheist group said they started the story to see how fast such a rumor could be spread among Christians.
“Those numbers add up to 13.”
It’s worse than that...
12262: 6X1 = 6, 3x2=6, and the last 6 stands on its own...666. Just fun speculation of course...I don’t believe the nonsense. :)
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