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Scientists plan to drill all the way down to the Earth's mantle
PhysOrg Mobile ^ | 25 March 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 05/21/2011 2:39:22 PM PDT by Windflier

(PhysOrg.com) -- In what can only be described as a mammoth undertaking, scientists, led by British co-chiefs, Dr Damon Teagle of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England and Dr Benoit Ildefonse from Montpellier University in France, have announced jointly in an article in Nature that they intend to drill a hole through the Earth’s crust and into the mantle; a feat never before accomplished, much less seriously attempted.


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; drilling; thomasgold
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Uh-oh. They're gonna pop a hole in da erf.
1 posted on 05/21/2011 2:39:27 PM PDT by Windflier
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To: Windflier

Awesome! What could possibly go wrong.


2 posted on 05/21/2011 2:40:46 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: Windflier

One can only wonder why, and whose money are they using...


3 posted on 05/21/2011 2:44:16 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Windflier
-- Last but not least is the problem of atmospheric pressure, which increases the deeper you go, to somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 million pounds per square foot--

--yep--heavy atmosphere, that--

4 posted on 05/21/2011 2:44:42 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Windflier

It’ll let all the air out and we’ll go spinning off into space like a deflating balloon.


5 posted on 05/21/2011 2:45:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice)
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To: Windflier

—glad they don’t plan to do it in Yellowstone Park—


6 posted on 05/21/2011 2:45:46 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Windflier
Sounds like Mohole back in the 1950’s and 60’s. I always wondered what happened to that effort. It's funny how things keep coming back around.
7 posted on 05/21/2011 2:46:36 PM PDT by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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To: Iscool
One can only wonder why...


8 posted on 05/21/2011 2:49:04 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Okay ... 4 million pounds per sq. foot, over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

There’s gotta be a way to put something down there that can deliver some SERIOUS geothermal/geo-pressure energy back up here.


9 posted on 05/21/2011 2:49:24 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: SkyDancer

After the idiotic claims that the ocean floor was going to collapse under the deepwater horizon, I’ve decided that no stretch of the imagination is too far for some.


10 posted on 05/21/2011 2:50:33 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Windflier
Was attempted 50 years ago, but failed from lack of funding because Johnson said we weren't spending enough on welfare. I wonder how this will go with much newer technology? Probably the same: Not enough spending on welfare.

Project Mohole

11 posted on 05/21/2011 2:52:08 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama said OBL is dead I didn't believe it. Al Qaeda says he's dead and now I do!)
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To: Yulee

They stopped because they couldn’t keep the bit and drill tubing cool enough to stay together long enough to make things work.


12 posted on 05/21/2011 2:53:13 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: ExpatCanuck
Awesome! What could possibly go wrong.


13 posted on 05/21/2011 2:54:27 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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14 posted on 05/21/2011 2:55:03 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Windflier

Several years before they can start. The Russians drilled really deep, 12 km, said it got really HOT, 260 degrees Celsius.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole


15 posted on 05/21/2011 2:55:34 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Yulee

Moho

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_discontinuity

Technology wasn’t up to the ambition. Lot of advances since then.


16 posted on 05/21/2011 2:55:48 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Windflier
Uh oh! Not this again!


17 posted on 05/21/2011 2:56:06 PM PDT by MarketR
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To: Windflier

18 posted on 05/21/2011 2:56:36 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: rellimpank
—glad they don’t plan to do it in Yellowstone Park—

What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Deep-Drilling a Supervolcano

19 posted on 05/21/2011 2:57:07 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
They planned to do this before:

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

20 posted on 05/21/2011 2:57:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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