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 Earthâs 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Sigh...
beat me AGAIN!
Gotta love the name of the organization that took the lead in the Mohole Project,
American Miscellaneous Society
I’m thinking it would be funny if terrorists tried to use the tunnel to sneak into the United States. They would be constantly going up every 12 hours . . . but not getting anywhere! How cool would that be?
I didn’t know that.
Here’s pretty much everything about them (wiki)
The American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC - 1952 to 1964) was formed by Gordon Lill, of the Office of Naval Research, as an organization designed to collect various Earth science research ideas that were submitted by scientists to the U.S. Navy and didn’t fit into any particular category.
Membership in AMSOC was open to everyone and so there was no official membership list.
Prospective members could join whenever two or more members were together.
The most famous project to come out of AMSOC was the Project Mohole, whose goal was to drill into the Earth’s mantle. The society dissolved itself in 1964.
Again?
OK; still...
Smiling and chuckling
Maybe this is just a cover story for the real mission. In 1974, a ship called the Glomar Explorer, believed to be owned by billionaire Howard Hughes, began a mission to supposedly extract minerals from the ocean floor. In reality, it was a CIA operation that was attempting to retrieve a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine that was sitting on the ocean floor.
We can now snoop around MUCH better than in ‘74.
So can the other guys...
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