Human beings are used to doing the impossible.
What makes the task even more difficult is that, currently, the drill bits have a limited lifespan of between 50-60 hours before needing to be replaced, meaning drilling could take many years unless technology improves.
The first attempts to reach the Earth’s mantle actually began back in the early 1960s. Dubbed “Project Mohole” after the Croatian meteorologist Andrija Mohorovicic who first discovered the boundary between the Earth’s crust and mantle, a team of U.S. scientists managed to drill a few meters into the oceanic crust off Guadalupe Island in the eastern pacific. The achievement was recognized by a telegram from President John F. Kennedy but the project was closed down in 1966.
Since then, a Russian-project in the far north Kola Peninsula during the 1980s has taken over the record for the deepest borehole ever drilled, reaching 12 km into the earth’s crust.
Geologists now hope to drill 3.7 miles beneath the seafloor to reach Earth’s mantle, the 2,000-mile-thick layer of hot, solid rock between Earth’s crust and it’s molten core. The cost of the mission is $1 billion and will require a team of international scientists to drill through the rock with 6.2-mile-long drill pipes, which project co-leader Damon Teagle told CNN will be “the most challenging endeavour in the history of Earth science.”
The drill will make a hole only 11 inches in width all the way through the crust.
“It will be the equivalent of dangling a steel string the width of a human hair in the deep end of a swimming pool and inserting it into a thimble 1/10 mm wide on the bottom, and then drilling a few meters into the foundations,” Teagle said. by N0LINKNEWS
MY VIEW:
Mother Earth is sacred so must be treated with respect...YOU JUST CAN'T DRILL HOLES FOR IF IT UPSETS MOTHER EARTH SHE CAN COUNTERACT WITH DEMOLITION WORK ON THE SURFACE.
ALSO REMEMBER YOU MIGHT UPSET THE INNER EARTH BEINGS
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