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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

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To: Dr. Sivana

Imagine the center of the earth filled with oil. Drill, baby! Drill!


21 posted on 05/21/2011 2:57:33 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Yulee

Oh, I see it was Mohole. Long time ago.


22 posted on 05/21/2011 2:57:46 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Windflier
What type of drill bit will they use that won't melt in the process?

Al Gore says it is millions of degrees hot down there!

And he knows everything since he made a movie, wrote a book and won a Nobel Prize.

23 posted on 05/21/2011 2:57:46 PM PDT by N. Theknow (The MSM is to 0bama what the Broom-n-Scoop Detail is to a circus parade.)
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To: ExpatCanuck
I love this part from the article: This would not be the first time that a sample of the mantle would be recovered however, as volcanoes and such have been forcing under-crust material to the surface for eons; it would be the first time that a sample was found though that hasn’t been tainted by the process that brought it up to us, and that scientists say, is worth whatever the cost might add up to over time as the project carries on through years of laborious drilling.

Whatever the cost. Scientists say, so there ya go!
24 posted on 05/21/2011 2:58:13 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: Windflier

I don’t know ANYTHING about this sort of thing, but I do know that I’m quiet uncomfortable with this.


25 posted on 05/21/2011 2:58:37 PM PDT by bannie ("The gov't that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul." ))
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To: Dr. Sivana
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.

What sort of technology do we have that can contain 4 million pounds per square foot of pressure?

26 posted on 05/21/2011 2:58:49 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

Just because they can doesn’t mean they should. They thought the BP leak was hard to stop....


27 posted on 05/21/2011 2:59:53 PM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Windflier

ROTFLMAO !

Hopefully they fire up the linear accelerator on the same day so the diversion of guilt can be offset.

Ok who broke the big blue marble ???


28 posted on 05/21/2011 3:00:29 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: treetopsandroofs
The Russians drilled really deep, 12 km, said it got really HOT, 260 degrees Celsius.

I remember reading about that. The Russians have the record for deep drilling, as far as I know.

29 posted on 05/21/2011 3:00:35 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: N. Theknow
What type of drill bit will they use that won't melt in the process?

It had better be pure diamond, or something even harder.

30 posted on 05/21/2011 3:02:33 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: Iscool
One can only wonder why, and whose money are they using...

There are lot's of scientific reasons as well as commercial. An interesting thing about the Kola superdeep borehole drilled by the Soviets was the volume of hydrogen gas encountered. One could almost describe it as being a hydrogen well.

31 posted on 05/21/2011 3:02:59 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Windflier

And they can’t just dive in an active volcano because....


32 posted on 05/21/2011 3:06:04 PM PDT by Desdemona ( If trusting the men in the clergy was a requirement for Faith, there would be no one in the pews.)
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To: bgill
Just because they can doesn’t mean they should. They thought the BP leak was hard to stop....

I think that's everyone's first thought. Can you imagine an uncontrolled, runaway geyser coming straight out of the earth's core? Armageddon. Doomsday.

Personally, I don't believe that our current technology is capable of containing the sort of pressure and heat that such a bore hole would release.

Bad idea, in my estimation.

33 posted on 05/21/2011 3:06:50 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: TomServo

See the blonde scientist trapped underground with her lover and her husband?

You know, there’s not much cornier than old movie advertising.


34 posted on 05/21/2011 3:07:46 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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35 posted on 05/21/2011 3:07:54 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I'd rather be Plaxico Burress than Sean Taylor)
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To: Windflier

Maybe they should have done it May 21.


36 posted on 05/21/2011 3:09:32 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: fso301

maybe the hydrogen is down there for a REASON


37 posted on 05/21/2011 3:09:34 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: ExpatCanuck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfJINBvvHLE


38 posted on 05/21/2011 3:13:58 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Windflier

Michael Moore sitting on the lid ought to contain it, no problem.


39 posted on 05/21/2011 3:16:17 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Windflier

But but but - what about the water table? Stephen Chu says we can’t do any fracking, so how is this allowed??


40 posted on 05/21/2011 3:18:32 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Darwinism is to Genesis as Global Warming is to Revelations.)
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