Posted on 02/05/2011 11:48:03 AM PST by pillut48
Sorry for the delay in response.
Frankly, I’d like to see a system set up where they can cap the hole with some sort of entry that would minimize outside contaminants.
If we find life there, I want to know it was there before we entered. Finding similar life would lead me to think there might be another way in. If we allow free passage, then we can’t be certain of that.
I’m operating under the impression that we’re drilling through water, into a geological separation, and then on into the new uncharted cavern (for lack of a better description).
If we’re drilling straight through earth or snow-pack into it, then it wouldn’t be quite as critical.
My use of the word contaminants is a rather loose use of the term. I would consider anything including outside life to be a contaminant. What if something we let in could wreak havoc with animal, plant, or microscopic life inside the new cavern. I want to avoid that.
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