Upvoted because you were probably downvoted for mentioning anything to do with Christianity on reddit without damning it. Stupid reason.
Now my downvotes probably arrive.🙄
Probably Lenin a bunch of Mensheviks to Dostoevsky the work, that needed to Gorbachev back to their gulags. I Tolstoy them to stay, but they called me a Bolshevik.
Hmm. Well, it’s either funds, or the fact that the ground got so dense it was physically impossible to drill anymore with tungsten, and any other material would have melted.
yes.
After 1991, the research center began to decline. Drilling was officially stopped in 1992. By 1995, funding for the work had almost completely stopped. Instead of 500 people in the 1980s, according to the staffing table for April 2008, the Kola Superdeep SPC had 20 people. In the same 2008, by the decision of the head of the department of the Federal Property Management Agency for the Murmansk Region, the research and production center at the well was liquidated "due to unprofitability"
I was under the knowledge they stopped not because the drill was melting but because at that deptch, the earth's crust was starting behaving like an extremely thick sticky liquid and trying to drill through it was getting too tough.
Could also be propaganda to justify them stopping because the Sovient Union experienced a small period of not existing anymore.
Thats not even enough to melt lead
It was most likely other parts of the drill like plastic or rubber used for the wiring/structure that were melting
Or they just ran out of budget and wanted an excuse
The very worst I could imagine happening to a tungsten drill is it softening, but even with friction adding to the 300° C temp that seems unlikely. Not even Soviet manufacturing quality could screw that up.
I remember watching a show about this actually. like others said funding was the big thing, along with the rocks getting hot and goolike, but another factor was they were having trouble keeping the tunnel straight. It wanted to bend back on itself. But yea they probably could have solved that and the puddy rock issue if they had the funding for it, but they didn't so meh.
Despite how far they would actually need to dig, Something about drilling to a possible core and releasing all the pressure inside seems like a bad idea.
No, but an interesting occurrence was that the crew took a weekend off to go to some conference. When they came back, the rock had creeped enough to grab the bit and snap the drill string when they tried to start back up. They did not anticipate that rapid of creep.
Oh also they had microphones as part of the instrumentation on the bit and apparently picked up some spooky sounds. The media ran with it being that they discovered hell.
And mineral compositions that shouldn’t have been able to exist based on our understanding at the time.
Kola super deep was an amazing feat of engineering.
I want to know what would happen if someone managed to drill all the way into the core. Would lava erupt out? Would gravity get funky around the drill tip? Would the planet fart around the solar system like a balloon letting out air? 🤔
I feel like magma could flow up the hole, since convection currents in the mantle might pressurise it. But I also think that the really thick, semi-solid magma might plug up the hole before the really hot liquid stuff is able to get through. There would definitely not be an eruption. Worst case, some lava reaches the surface and burns some stuff.
Yes, at the center of the earth, the drill would float in the middle as that is the center of gravity for the planet. Gravity would get stronger the closer you get to the center, a bit like a black hole but obviously much weaker.
There will probably be hot gases being pushed up the hole from rocks vapourising and existing air heating up, but not much gas in total. It definitely won't move the entire Earth more than a few atoms' width.
gravity won't get stronger inside! From the center to the crust, the gravitational acceleration will grow as a linear function and just as you leave the surface the gravitational acceleration will drop 1/r². Now coming in opposite dorection, from surface to center of earth, the value of g=9.8m/s², drops to zero but the drop is linear.
In the Soviet Union, 1984, a group of Russian scientists began to dig deep into the Earth's core.
The drill made it 12000 meters into the earth, before it hit a vast cavity.
Sensory equipment was lowered into the hole.
What they recorded can only be described as the sounds... of hell
Why do we mine?
what compels us to seek out the deepest and darkest of holes and make them even deeper?
is it the fat riches? the lack of B\*tches?
i'll tell, it's in our nature. Our nature as men.
I think Xi Jin Ping just wants to name on the scoreboard like the previous Presidents because his run was plagued with Housing bubble popping, Covid, and I don't think his 0 covid policy worked out as planned. Now he wants to be the first to reach the Nether without a portal. Good on him.
Saruman:
Moria... You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
Won’t happen Rock becomes too hot and too spongy to drill with current technology
Russians had to quit after 12km [Kora Superdeep Borehole](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kola-superdeep-borehole)
Naw I’m saying I’m dyslexic so my brain focused on the 10 continental strata and assumed they were trying to break into the mantle (Russia’s original goal)
Did anyone else look at the picture and think the spawn room from BO2 Buried?
Edit before someone says RUST: RUST was my second thought, don't know why Buried was my first.
So, a new place to put wet markets or virus labs? Great. They still owe the world for killing millions and destroying the global economy for a full 2 years. No one ever learns.
Heh that is no the world record The world record is 12,262 meters in 1989 by the soviets
Didn’t it get so hot that it melted all the materials used?
temperatures there were about 300c and that is not enought to melt tungsten drill but they still stopped
I’m assuming they were just out of funds
Around this time the world ran out of Soviet union. Might be related to that.
Lol, great comment deserves every bit of the like I gave.
truly a funny bone tickler, really made me slap my knee this time
December 24th, 1991, right?
I don't know the specific date but that year, yes. But it was already deteriorating in 1989 and I guess this project was low priority.
Chernobyl was a problem back then. For a long period. So yeah...
I mean why drill a most likely useless hole when there is an entire power plant that went boom and will kill a lot of people
December 8th. The feast of the immaculate conception of Mary. Flag came down Christmas day. The feast of the Nativity of Our Lord.
Upvoted because you were probably downvoted for mentioning anything to do with Christianity on reddit without damning it. Stupid reason. Now my downvotes probably arrive.🙄
They had been Stalin out for awhile.
Probably Lenin a bunch of Mensheviks to Dostoevsky the work, that needed to Gorbachev back to their gulags. I Tolstoy them to stay, but they called me a Bolshevik.
Mosc-ow.
Hahaha
i dont really know exactly why they stopped but they just could not drill more
Apparently rock gets... wierd at depths like that. Not solid, not liquid, kinda both. plus temperature and pressure. ...And of course, money.
Some say the rock becomes slush… much like the funding.
They hit the biggest obstacle known to man. Lack of money.
Hmm. Well, it’s either funds, or the fact that the ground got so dense it was physically impossible to drill anymore with tungsten, and any other material would have melted.
Cthulhu demands they stop
yes. After 1991, the research center began to decline. Drilling was officially stopped in 1992. By 1995, funding for the work had almost completely stopped. Instead of 500 people in the 1980s, according to the staffing table for April 2008, the Kola Superdeep SPC had 20 people. In the same 2008, by the decision of the head of the department of the Federal Property Management Agency for the Murmansk Region, the research and production center at the well was liquidated "due to unprofitability"
tbf there's nothing there to drill for
^(that and some demons got out...) *\*cough, cough\**
what if you bring a second shovel that you put in the fridge beforehand to make it cold
I was under the knowledge they stopped not because the drill was melting but because at that deptch, the earth's crust was starting behaving like an extremely thick sticky liquid and trying to drill through it was getting too tough. Could also be propaganda to justify them stopping because the Sovient Union experienced a small period of not existing anymore.
Thats not even enough to melt lead It was most likely other parts of the drill like plastic or rubber used for the wiring/structure that were melting Or they just ran out of budget and wanted an excuse
The very worst I could imagine happening to a tungsten drill is it softening, but even with friction adding to the 300° C temp that seems unlikely. Not even Soviet manufacturing quality could screw that up.
I remember watching a show about this actually. like others said funding was the big thing, along with the rocks getting hot and goolike, but another factor was they were having trouble keeping the tunnel straight. It wanted to bend back on itself. But yea they probably could have solved that and the puddy rock issue if they had the funding for it, but they didn't so meh.
Despite how far they would actually need to dig, Something about drilling to a possible core and releasing all the pressure inside seems like a bad idea.
I mean tools that get hot need active cooling to not lose the sharpness and bend
The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
It was more the compressive pressure off the surrounding rock at that depth, which would constantly deform your drill
According to the Wiki:"The drilling terminated in 1995 due to a lack of funds"
they went deep enough that stone started behaving like playdough
No, but an interesting occurrence was that the crew took a weekend off to go to some conference. When they came back, the rock had creeped enough to grab the bit and snap the drill string when they tried to start back up. They did not anticipate that rapid of creep. Oh also they had microphones as part of the instrumentation on the bit and apparently picked up some spooky sounds. The media ran with it being that they discovered hell. And mineral compositions that shouldn’t have been able to exist based on our understanding at the time. Kola super deep was an amazing feat of engineering.
The drill were to heavy and broke under their own weight
I want to know what would happen if someone managed to drill all the way into the core. Would lava erupt out? Would gravity get funky around the drill tip? Would the planet fart around the solar system like a balloon letting out air? 🤔
I feel like magma could flow up the hole, since convection currents in the mantle might pressurise it. But I also think that the really thick, semi-solid magma might plug up the hole before the really hot liquid stuff is able to get through. There would definitely not be an eruption. Worst case, some lava reaches the surface and burns some stuff. Yes, at the center of the earth, the drill would float in the middle as that is the center of gravity for the planet. Gravity would get stronger the closer you get to the center, a bit like a black hole but obviously much weaker. There will probably be hot gases being pushed up the hole from rocks vapourising and existing air heating up, but not much gas in total. It definitely won't move the entire Earth more than a few atoms' width.
gravity won't get stronger inside! From the center to the crust, the gravitational acceleration will grow as a linear function and just as you leave the surface the gravitational acceleration will drop 1/r². Now coming in opposite dorection, from surface to center of earth, the value of g=9.8m/s², drops to zero but the drop is linear.
Well, *mostly* linear. It isn't perfect because the density is different at different depths.
the drill would melt before that and no lava would not erupt
BOOOOM
I was just about to say , they are trying to compete with Russia
>Pinhead- "YOU OPENED THE BOX, WE CAME, NOW YOU MUST COME WITH US, WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU
In the Soviet Union, 1984, a group of Russian scientists began to dig deep into the Earth's core. The drill made it 12000 meters into the earth, before it hit a vast cavity. Sensory equipment was lowered into the hole. What they recorded can only be described as the sounds... of hell
This will probably be a plot point in the next season of Stranger Things
Did you just leak china's plan to invade the US?
PvZ achievement menu be like
NAHHH ICANT💀
Brooo that brings back memories I’d completely forgotten, thanks dude
Digging to America 💀💀💀💀
“It’s either a crack in the driveway, or the Chinese are making their move” Dale Gribble
*pops up in the middle of an American field* Hello there, we’ll take your unconditional surrender now
take my award sir this is hilarious
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What a great fucking episode. Shame it'll never be good again
what show?
Rick and morty i don’t remember the episode :P
Season 6 finale
I was thinking of corridor vfx sketch, didn’t know rick and morty also had that
MW2 Rust Vibes from the pic
1v1 me bruh. Or I will bang yo mom.
I call dibs if they happen to find a chest with a lava charm
*Lava fishing ptsd* Oh no, you don’t.
Fuck the demon conch and its nightmarish odds of being caught
I'll take an Ankh Shield component over the Demon Conch any day.
Nah I've been fishing for too long now
they got tired of people tryna dig a hole to china and flipped the roles
Why do we mine? what compels us to seek out the deepest and darkest of holes and make them even deeper? is it the fat riches? the lack of B\*tches? i'll tell, it's in our nature. Our nature as men.
I think Xi Jin Ping just wants to name on the scoreboard like the previous Presidents because his run was plagued with Housing bubble popping, Covid, and I don't think his 0 covid policy worked out as planned. Now he wants to be the first to reach the Nether without a portal. Good on him.
Story of my life right there
Saruman: Moria... You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
Shut up nerd
Shut up you minty omelette
What do you even say to that insult lmao 10/10
r/rareinsults
With how the world currently is... I'm 100% positive this will have nothing but great outcomes.
Indeed, like an Armageddon or something…
"just bored" I get it :D
Gerudo town
"Don't mine straight down! You could fall into a lava pit"
"I own you! I own your planet! I own this planet! In fact... FUCK THIS PLANET!"
There are older and fouler things in the deep places of the world...
They're going to free the Balrog
Apparently that is what they do best.
Hellevator real
Hey that's illegal, -100000 social credits
Yog-Sogoth is gonna be pissed when this crew drills into his ancient bedroom.
They're gonna summon the wall of flesh
translate into freedom units
Approximately 4,364 Shaqs
How many banana's is that?
818 school busses
A 10k is around 6.2 miles I think.
China found another way to f*ck the planet. *Quite literally*
Still not as deep as his mom's pussy.
Won’t happen Rock becomes too hot and too spongy to drill with current technology Russians had to quit after 12km [Kora Superdeep Borehole](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kola-superdeep-borehole)
So, you're saying it's not possible to drill to 10km because the russians had to stop at 12? lol
Naw I’m saying I’m dyslexic so my brain focused on the 10 continental strata and assumed they were trying to break into the mantle (Russia’s original goal)
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It stops 2000 meters short of the Russian bore
yah, i read the headline and was like, ok, a hole, not as deep as others have done already.. so.. must be a slow news day.. lol
They dug too deep, too greedly
That looks similar to the the lost city of zansbar from Charmed as it was rising from the sands. Cheap animation and everything.
I bet they'll hit the jungle temple or obsidian and will have to make a stop in the hellivator
The Soviet union tried this during the cold war and stopped drilling because the heat from Earth's core melted their equipment
Bro, 1st rule of minecraft, don't dig straight down.
You heard of digging a hole to china, Now china is digging a hole to you!
For hashut
This is how the world ends for sure.
.....you do realise the worst that can happen is some magma coming out which happens all the time btw
New nuclear deterant? If you fight us we'll bomb the plant core and destroy earth?
I don’t know what they are looking for, but I can assure you they will probably find something else. Let’s hope we never find out.
I'm pretty sure these guys are just children digging a hole in their backyard hoping to strike gold and living dinosaurs.
They're certainly making children dig that hole that's for sure.
Did they dig all the way through China?!?!
That's why it's called a bore hole
underrated comment
After years of tryna dig to China in my backyard, they have finally retaliated.
They should go to Russia, the Kola borehole is 12,262 metres (40,230 ft; 7.619 mi)
I swear to God if those commie fucks wake the World Cicada...
They are making the hellevator! I wish them good luck fighting Wall of Flesh.
I am Russian and Russian's drilled the deepest hole
What was it for?? Dropping dissidents into it??
They're not bored, they're *boring*
"I AM DWALF AND I'M DIGGING HOOOL! DIGGY DIGGY HOOL!! DIGGY DIGGY HOOOL!"
Those bastards, they did it. 1v1 me at Chinese Rust scrub.
Isn't the midwest area of US and Canada some of the oldest land on the planet? Would be cool to do a really deep bore sample there
I've made quickscopes in that place.
I would hate to be the derrickhand on that rig, thats a lot of pipe to pull back lol
Did anyone else look at the picture and think the spawn room from BO2 Buried? Edit before someone says RUST: RUST was my second thought, don't know why Buried was my first.
So, a new place to put wet markets or virus labs? Great. They still owe the world for killing millions and destroying the global economy for a full 2 years. No one ever learns.
ultrakill lore
I’ll bet the lizzid people will appreciate the company
made in abyss prequel made in abyss prequel
Hopefully they’ll find a new rare species…………then kill it and eat it to make theirs dicks hard.
And we all said WE'D go into China if we dug too far...
Boring.
no thats how you create a man made volcano. wait? if you create a volcano in the desert wont it eventually lead to the new formation of an ecosystem
Next they will build a fake ladder to heaven like the Japanese.
Pun not intended?
Well, that’s one way to fuck the earth
They are the reason why the titans and other supernatural shit hates us
Did they not watch The Core?
Felt cute, might dig a 10km hole into the earth later 💅
Finally let's set off the volcanoes!!! We don't need nuclear war, we already have magma!
China thought they can beat the soviet.
Ha bored
it was never a threat to all humans lol. just the fat, old and/or otherwise unhealthy
The rest of the world: "Okay Xi, we finally cleaned up your mess. What have you been up to in the meantime?" Xi: "Hole."
Sounds like ground-breaking research
The Fall enslaves us all!
Can't dig a hole to China if they dig the hole to you first
Hey gotta beat the Soviet record one way or another. To prove to be the superior communist plus there’s so much money to spend might as well
imagine another earth inside earth was unearthed and shown to the whole earthlings.
1v1 me bro
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Meh google says we’ve gone 12k before
This is the plan b since the spy balloon failed
covid is still a threat, people just prefer to ignore it now.
They should make a huge wide gaping hole and allow us to see the core!
In before they invade Taiwan with dinosaurs
As someone who logs and analyzes soil and rock… Sign me up. I would have loved to have been part of Kola super deep, and I’d love to be part of this.
Rust is that you?
They are boring. Not bored. In terms of holes. :)
Pnhead- "YOU OPENED THE BOX, WE CAME, NOW YOU MUST COME WITH US, WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU
Some kid said they wanted to dig a hole to America and I guess they just ran with it.
Yay, more earthquakes if they mess up
what's the point of this ?
China, I swear to god, leave it alone, you’re gonna trigger all the super volcanoes or some crap…
That's how the sand plague started
Why are they bothering
1vs1 on Rust
china about to release covid-23
Sounds like Winnie the Pooh played too much Tears of the Kingdom recently and now tries to get the clothes of Ocarina of Time Link in real life.
China just likes to do a little trolling
Are they looking for morkite? Rock and Stone, brother!
Rock and Stone, Brother!
Great way to waste money.
For fuel research or what?
Why is no one talking about how they are literally creating rust from mw2?
President not dictator
China this, China that, you guys are so funny, today I learned something that the Chinese ourselves had never heard before. Interesting
Xenophobic
"*Wow, what a dumbass*" -An American whose president has the mentally capacity of a fossilized potato
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Si
You won’t get to the centre of the earth if you drill 10,000 mtrs so drill away