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Expedition to drill to center of Earth ends without success
Fox News ^ | February 01, 2016 | Fox News

Posted on 02/03/2016 4:35:38 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crust; drill; earth; joidesresolution
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To: RipSawyer

Do you treat them well, with kindness? If you do, they will treat you with similar respect.

Hopefully your drillers were kind and respectful people when they poked into the Artesians world.


21 posted on 02/03/2016 6:27:15 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

You mean they didn’t get near the chewy chocolate center?


22 posted on 02/03/2016 6:36:41 AM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: WhiskeyX
Good thing they didn't make it. . . even in the 1960s, they knew this was not a good idea. . .


23 posted on 02/03/2016 6:41:49 AM PST by Salgak (Peace Through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: WhiskeyX

I’m not sure they should even be trying this.


24 posted on 02/03/2016 6:43:05 AM PST by lifeline
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To: RoosterRedux

This is probably area God does not want man messing with.


25 posted on 02/03/2016 6:43:05 AM PST by lifeline
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To: bert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole

Project Mohole


26 posted on 02/03/2016 6:55:31 AM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: WhiskeyX

I remember reading a “New Tom Swift” book, back in the late sixties, about them drilling to the center of the earth to uncover a vast storage of new minerals.


27 posted on 02/03/2016 7:10:59 AM PST by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There's one there, right next to the potatoes!)
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To: bert

Was that Project Mohole? I remember it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole


28 posted on 02/03/2016 7:30:18 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Calamari; Ruy Dias de Bivar

I recall the name project mohole, but the effort of which I have memories was in Indonesia and later say 1966

The NAVFAC Officer In Charge of Construction Swpac in Manila had a hand in it


29 posted on 02/03/2016 7:45:04 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: cripplecreek

+1


30 posted on 02/03/2016 1:07:18 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

God releases them. Abaddon, and a few others, right? So how could drilling a hole release them?


31 posted on 02/03/2016 6:02:09 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Yea, just funnin’


32 posted on 02/03/2016 6:14:53 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: WhiskeyX
Expedition to drill to center of Earth ends without success

I highly doubt they were even TRYING to drill to the CENTER!

33 posted on 02/09/2016 4:51:33 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WhiskeyX
...had set out to drill down to 4,265 feet in a stretch of ocean floor ...

Boys; it's approximately 3950 miles to the center; so we've only 3949 miles and some feet to go.

34 posted on 02/09/2016 4:54:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: bert

Mohole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole


35 posted on 02/09/2016 4:55:06 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Heck; we can’t even get to the bottom of Oak Island!


36 posted on 02/09/2016 4:55:43 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Dang!

Again I shudda read ahead!


37 posted on 02/09/2016 4:56:15 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: prisoner6

They are all over my property.


38 posted on 02/09/2016 4:56:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WhiskeyX

Brains?

Do proofreaders have them?

;^)


39 posted on 02/09/2016 4:57:31 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: RipSawyer

Ask the folks in Martinsville...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinsville_High_School_(Indiana)


40 posted on 02/09/2016 4:59:43 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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