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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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To: proudofthesouth

Think they’ll cough up a Balrog on the way down?


81 posted on 05/21/2011 7:15:29 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: ExpatCanuck
Awesome! What could possibly go wrong.

MAGMA...


82 posted on 05/21/2011 7:21:53 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: rockvillem

Pretty good scam for the scientists that hatched the plot, err, experiment. Cush, well paying jobs for like forever.


83 posted on 05/21/2011 7:27:04 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: cripplecreek
We’re trying to incite a good panic here.

Oh ok. Sorry. How about this... Don't they understand that drilling through the crust like this will allow all the lava inside the earth to flow out!

84 posted on 05/21/2011 7:52:13 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Windflier

What about that Mohole thing in the 1960s?


85 posted on 05/21/2011 7:55:47 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Windflier
... a feat never before accomplished, much less seriously attempted.

That should be: "A feat never before seriously attempted, much less accomplished" , as per example at Merriam Webster: "after spraining his ankle, the gymnast hadn't been expected to appear in today's event, much less win it"

Well, in the example, it's clear that the expectation of winning is "much less" than the expectation of even appearing. I suppose one may feel that the "serious attempt" is "much less" than its actual accomplishment, but this sense would be conveyed by "nor even", as in "... a feat never before accomplished, nor even attempted."

Another free lesson from Mister Language Person.

86 posted on 05/21/2011 8:44:31 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: aruanan
What about that Mohole thing in the 1960s?

I vaguely remember something about something about Russian scientists digging to the center of the earth and heard what they thought were screams from hell.

Does anyone else remember something like this?

87 posted on 05/21/2011 10:03:34 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Windflier

I vaguely recall anything more than so many feet comes under the jurisdiction of the federal gubmint.....


88 posted on 05/21/2011 10:07:59 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (I am keeping the faith, I have not finished my course and I am fighting for the good)
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To: Windflier

I vaguely recall anything more than so many feet comes under the jurisdiction of the federal gubmint.....


89 posted on 05/21/2011 10:08:11 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (I am keeping the faith, I have not finished my course and I am fighting for the good)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Several years ago, Art Bell played a recording that Russians obtained by lowering a microphone into a deep hole they drilled.

The wails and screams and moans were horrible.


90 posted on 05/21/2011 10:29:23 PM PDT by Edgewood Pilot
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To: Windflier

Do you think these guys will figure out how to get usable, even cheap, energy from all that heat?

Naaaaah.


91 posted on 05/21/2011 10:42:30 PM PDT by FreeKeys ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." -- Ed Biersmith, 1942)
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To: fso301

I didn’t mean burning them with hot gas, I meant lowering the temperature of the Earth’s core.


92 posted on 05/22/2011 5:25:28 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: stars & stripes forever
I vaguely remember something about something about Russian scientists digging to the center of the earth and heard what they thought were screams from hell.

I thought they were drilling somewhere in the Caribbean or near there because they found a place the crust was thinnest.
93 posted on 05/22/2011 6:26:12 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Greysard
But it's 4,000 miles to the center of Earth; they can't be traversed without an autonomous machine that is protected by force fields

They're just going to the mantle (3 miles deep under the oceans), not the center of the core (~4,000 miles), and they've gotten most of the way already as of 2005.
94 posted on 05/22/2011 6:39:10 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Windflier

And for money they are going to use.... what?


95 posted on 05/22/2011 4:12:32 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

It was a tabloid hoax.


96 posted on 05/22/2011 7:18:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: ApplegateRanch; Yulee; Cyber Liberty; DManA; Paladin2; BwanaNdege; aruanan; treetopsandroofs; ...

Thanks ApplegateRanch.
...a feat never before accomplished, much less seriously attempted.
Another feat never before seriously attempted is to check facts before publishing a "news" story. :')

Project Mohole
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The late Thomas Gold's project made two very deep Siljan Ring boreholes, the deeper of the two 22,300 feet in depth.
 
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97 posted on 05/22/2011 7:27:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: Windflier

I hope Pellucidar is less savage then Edgar Rice Burroughs described in 1915.

Freegards


98 posted on 05/22/2011 7:30:42 PM PDT by Ransomed
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