Expedition to drill to center of Earth ends without success

Fox News ^ | February 01, 2016 | Fox News

[WhiskeyX]

An international effort to drill into the floor of the Indian Ocean in an effort to reach below the Earth’s crust for the first has come up short.

The expedition on the ship, the Joides Resolution, had set out to drill down to 4,265 feet in a stretch of ocean floor off Africa known as the Atlantis Bank gabbroic massif. Gabbro is an intrusive igneous rock that forms when magma is trapped beneath Earth's surface and cools slowly.

But the researchers, who had been on the expedition since Nov. 30, were only able to drill down to 2,588 feet, according to a blog post from one of the onboard education and outreach officer Lucas Kavanagh.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Perhaps they heard some sounds that none of them felt like investigating.

[FreedomStar3028]

What do you mean?

[cripplecreek]

Silurians

[WhiskeyX]

Godzilla’s Revenge

[Travis T. OJustice]

You will never have drilling success if you don’t pay proper respect to the Artesians who own the under-earth.

[bert]

I seem to recall a US Navy deep hole project in Indonesia in the mid 60’s.

It is bugging me now that I can’t remember the details

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Folks that believe biblical prophecy are informed that there are some particular nasties that are going to be released during the Tribulation. Nice of the guys to build them a shaft they can use to expedite their voyage.

Others that disregard the warnings of the Bible can kindly disregard this post.

[wally_bert]

Stahlman’s gas.

[IronJack]

CHUDs.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ordovicians!

(Still not as dangerous as the PreCambrians! They are at the bottom of it all.)

[RoosterRedux]

The center of the earth is 3,693 MILES away and these nuts were going to drill 4,265 FEET.

Hardly the center of the earth.

[prisoner6]

From the depths of he Earth come...

The Mole People!

[PAR35]

So they managed to drill a hole a little less than 2600 feet in water that was a bit shallower than that (appx. 700 meters). Offshore wells go a lot deeper than that in water a lot deeper. Maybe they rented their drilling rig from the wrong outfit.

[WhiskeyX]

What do you expect form a reporter and news editor...brains?

[Kirkwood]

All that water pouring in through the hole would put out the fires of Hell.

[RipSawyer]

I have my own Artesian well, does that means the Artesians favor me?

[Jaxter]

[Fightin Whitey]

All that water pouring in through the hole would put out the fires of Hell.

No way. Al Gore says it's ten million degrees down there and NOTHING can cool it off.

[IMR 4350]

Sounds like they weren’t just drilling like would be done for oil and gas but taking core samples.