Posted on 04/07/2005 2:06:11 PM PDT by beezdotcom
Seeking the elusive 'Moho'
Scientist said this week they had drilled into the lower section of Earth's crust for the first time and were poised to break through to the mantle in coming years.
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) seeks the elusive "Moho," a boundary formally known as the Mohorovicic discontinuity. It marks the division between Earth's brittle outer crust and the hotter, softer mantle.
The depth of the Moho varies. This latest effort, which drilled 4,644 feet (1,416 meters) below the ocean seafloor, appears to have been 1,000 feet off to the side of where it needed to be to pierce the Moho, according to one reading of seismic data used to map the crust's varying thickness.
The new hole, which took nearly eight weeks to drill, is the third deepest ever made. The rock collection brought back to the surface is providing new information about the planet's composition.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
The question is WHY on earth would they do such a thing. And at whos expense.
I think the sequence is CHUD's, then Morlocks then mole people. But don't quote me on that ;)
Aye, but there aren't any dutchment with fingers that size.
Pay no attention to Miles the Slasher. Dig lots and lots of holes.
That thread was disturbing...very disturbing....
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) seeks the elusive "Moho"
Sheeesh, another article about Maureen Dowd?
"Do we really want to do this?" was my first, gut reaction. Something does not seem right with this. Can't explain it. Have no logical reasoning. Just a gut reaction.
Yeah, there's also mantle rock exposed in Macedonia; due to various complex tectonic gyrations a huge section of mantle ended up on the surface. Main reason it has so many Chromium mines and thus was critical to Nazi Germany in World War II.
Watch it blow up like a big nasty zit.
They need to rename it the "Integrated Drilling-In-Ocean Test"
have they reached China yet?
Sometimes this natural BOP fails.
LOL. I always wondered why the world hasn't collapsed already with all the natural gas we took out of it up to now. ;-)
I guess you would have to call it an "a$$-hole".
Gotcha.
Thermocouple effect.......
Most definitly an option.
In fact no law says that both processes couldnt be used at the same time
Steam that comes off the process could be condensed and part of it recycled, other part by using electricity could be converted to hydrogen viA electrolosis. Compress and liquify the hydrogen and you have the perfect motor fuel.
Yeah, but it's continuously replentished by Michael Moore's @$$ and Teddy Kennedy's alchohol binge farts.
Thats what I thought. The teacher didn't have a really good answer as to why it wouldn't work. Honestly - this idea nagged at me for years ... until I took geology in high school. Then I got it.
But what do you know ... 20-some years later, and we aren't overrun with trash like "the experts" said we could be.
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