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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: mistybear on September 01, 2008, 15:08

Title: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: mistybear on September 01, 2008, 15:08: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World

LINK (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/08/gallery_kola_borehole)
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: sam on September 01, 2008, 15:52: I'd like to know what they figured out.. must have been quite cool
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: David on September 01, 2008, 16:34: Quote from: sam on September 01, 2008, 15:52
I'd like to know what they figured out.. must have been quite cool

Dont know about cool Sam........looks blooming freezing.... ;D
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: Clive on September 01, 2008, 19:30: Nice find MB. Didn't know about that before.
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: Simon on September 01, 2008, 21:17: Possibly a daft question, but is it hypothetically possible to drill form one side of the world to the other, and what would happen if someone did?
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: Clive on September 01, 2008, 23:04: We will be able to see what MB is doing. ;D
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: David on September 01, 2008, 23:16: A very long underground network ;D
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: Sandra on September 02, 2008, 00:40: I think you would have a problem when you got near the central core Simon, because of it being very, very hot ;D
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: Reno on September 02, 2008, 04:49: You'd tick off the Earth god with 20 arms whose job it is to keep the world from exploding with a room full of linux terminals and a refrigerator of mountain dew. ::)
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: sam on September 02, 2008, 08:54: Quote from: Simon on September 01, 2008, 21:17
Possibly a daft question, but is it hypothetically possible to drill form one side of the world to the other, and what would happen if someone did?

nope, you'd have issues with the grav field too... but mostly the heat would be an issue.. plus the inner part of the core is moving around creating the Earth's magnetic field. Though I guess you might be able to go short distances, like across russia....
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: mistybear on September 02, 2008, 10:43: Quote from: sam on September 01, 2008, 15:52
I'd like to know what they figured out.. must have been quite cool

The book looks a little expensive, and hard to find apparently.

http://www.amazon.com/Superdeep-Peninsula-Exploration-Continental-Crust/dp/0387164162

Quote from: Clive on September 01, 2008, 19:30
Nice find MB. Didn't know about that before.

We don't tend to hear of these things in the west. Especially if it were a race and the other participant gave up, or what ever happened......... :dunno:

Quote from: Clive on September 01, 2008, 23:04
We will be able to see what MB is doing. ;D

:lol: Better call first, I might be out. ;)
Title: Re: How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World
Post by: Simon on September 02, 2008, 13:04: Quote from: Reno on September 02, 2008, 04:49
You'd tick off the Earth god with 20 arms whose job it is to keep the world from exploding with a room full of linux terminals and a refrigerator of mountain dew. ::)

I knew there'd be a snag! ;D

Quote from: sam on September 02, 2008, 08:54
nope, you'd have issues with the grav field too... but mostly the heat would be an issue.. plus the inner part of the core is moving around creating the Earth's magnetic field. Though I guess you might be able to go short distances, like across russia....

Damn! :)x