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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.
To: Travis T. OJustice
You mean they didn’t get near the chewy chocolate center?
To: WhiskeyX
Good thing they didn't make it. . . even in the 1960s, they knew this was not a good idea. . .
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02/03/2016 6:41:49 AM PST
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Salgak
(Peace Through Superior Firepower. . . .)
To: WhiskeyX
I’m not sure they should even be trying this.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:43:05 AM PST
by
lifeline
To: RoosterRedux
This is probably area God does not want man messing with.
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:43:05 AM PST
by
lifeline
To: bert
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:55:31 AM PST
by
Calamari
(Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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.
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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!)
To: bert
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
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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.)
To: cripplecreek
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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)
To: Pilgrim's Progress
God releases them. Abaddon, and a few others, right? So how could drilling a hole release them?
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:02:09 PM PST
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FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: FreedomStar3028
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posted on
02/03/2016 6:14:53 PM PST
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: WhiskeyX
Expedition to drill to center of Earth ends without successI highly doubt they were even TRYING to drill to the CENTER!
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02/09/2016 4:51:33 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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.
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02/09/2016 4:54:01 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: bert
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posted on
02/09/2016 4:55:06 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Pilgrim's Progress
Heck; we can’t even get to the bottom of Oak Island!
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posted on
02/09/2016 4:55:43 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: RoosterRedux
Dang!
Again I shudda read ahead!
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02/09/2016 4:56:15 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: prisoner6
They are all over my property.
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02/09/2016 4:56:50 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: WhiskeyX
Brains?
Do proofreaders have them?
;^)
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02/09/2016 4:57:31 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: RipSawyer
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02/09/2016 4:59:43 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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