How long does it take to drill 20km into the Earth's crust?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-07-09 06:30pm

Well?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-07-09 06:32pm

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-07-09 06:32pm

Rye wrote:4

4 what? Crust is only 4 kilometers thick?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-07-09 06:37pm

Sorry, it was a poor attempt at humour.

I decided to measure time in an unknown quantity and said it would take 4 of them to drill 20 km into the crust.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-07-09 06:38pm

Rye wrote:Sorry, it was a poor attempt at humour.

I decided to measure time in an unknown quantity and said it would take 4 of them to drill 20 km into the crust.

So you don't know how long it takes?

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-09 06:40pm

It has not been done.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-07-09 06:41pm

Howedar wrote:It has not been done.

What's the farthest that's been done and how long did it take?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-09 06:42pm

Russians dug 12km down for geological studies, but noones gone further.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-09 06:45pm

The greatest depth ever drilled was 12 kilometers on the Kola peninsula and it took the Russians a decade to do it using specially built pipes and equipment. The equipment we have today wont go any further, the pipes simply snap.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-09 06:47pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:The greatest depth ever drilled was 12 kilometers on the Kola peninsula and it took the Russians a decade to do it using specially built pipes and equipment. The equipment we have today wont go any further, the pipes simply snap.

3 minutes late.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-09 06:50pm

kojikun wrote:
3 minutes late.

Except you didn't say how long it took.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-09 07:01pm

Sea Skimmer wrote: Except you didn't say how long it took.

Neither did my source ^_^

johnmarkley · Post by **johnmarkley** » 2003-07-09 07:20pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:The greatest depth ever drilled was 12 kilometers on the Kola peninsula and it took the Russians a decade to do it using specially built pipes and equipment. The equipment we have today wont go any further, the pipes simply snap.

I swear, I once found an evangelical Christian site that claimed that the Russians dug so deep at Kola they accidentally drilled into Hell. They even provided "proof" in the form of a sound file of people moaning and screaming, supposedly taken from the drill site.

Sindai · Post by **Sindai** » 2003-07-09 07:34pm

Now that's an old hoax.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-09 07:38pm

Yeah I just googled it and came up with all sort osfshit. Heres one really funny note off www.truthorfiction.com

The plot thickened when a Norwegian school teacher named Age Rendalen decided to embellish the story with the description of the bat-like creature coming out of the hole. He did it purposely to see whether a religious television program would accept the story at face value without checking it out, and they did. TruthOrFiction.com has first-hand information from Mr. Rendalen.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-09 07:51pm

so we can nuke hell! cool

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-07-10 12:13am

Sea Skimmer wrote:Yeah I just googled it and came up with all sort osfshit. Heres one really funny note off www.truthorfiction.com

The plot thickened when a Norwegian school teacher named Age Rendalen decided to embellish the story with the description of the bat-like creature coming out of the hole. He did it purposely to see whether a religious television program would accept the story at face value without checking it out, and they did. TruthOrFiction.com has first-hand information from Mr. Rendalen.

....Thats one of the, if not THE dumbest thing I've ever heard. People believed this? FFS!!!! They might as well start saying the first astronauts saw angels and God knocked on the window!!!

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-07-10 12:16am

That story is no sillier than seeing God in a stain on a rag (oops, I mean "heavenly image on a shroud").

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-07-10 12:20am

Darth Wong wrote:That story is no sillier than seeing God in a stain on a rag (oops, I mean "heavenly image on a shroud").

And lets not forget people seeing the Virgin Mary....or was it just an oddly shaped fence post on a French cliff side...(I think it was in France anyway)

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-07-10 11:46am

kojikun wrote:so we can nuke hell! cool

Why'd you wanna nuke hell? Don't you wanna go hang out with the Prime Evils?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-10 11:59am

His Divine Shadow wrote:Why'd you wanna nuke hell? Don't you wanna go hang out with the Prime Evils?

True.. and I'm already in hell.. hmm.. Where's heaven? Can we nuke heaven?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-07-10 12:07pm

kojikun wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:Why'd you wanna nuke hell? Don't you wanna go hang out with the Prime Evils?
True.. and I'm already in hell.. hmm.. Where's heaven? Can we nuke heaven?

Wait till God gets back. He's currently appearing on a Dorito in Melbourne.

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-07-10 12:15pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
kojikun wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:Why'd you wanna nuke hell? Don't you wanna go hang out with the Prime Evils?
True.. and I'm already in hell.. hmm.. Where's heaven? Can we nuke heaven?
Wait till God gets back. He's currently appearing on a Dorito in Melbourne.

Waiter, waiter! Whats God doing in my soup!?
Preforming a miracle sir.......

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-07-10 04:12pm

Hmm i remember something called "projecy moho" in which the US were gonna try and drill through the ocean floor to the magma.

But that was the cover story, they did it to retrieve a downed soviet sub.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-10 06:24pm

Rye wrote:Hmm i remember something called "projecy moho" in which the US were gonna try and drill through the ocean floor to the magma.

But that was the cover story, they did it to retrieve a downed soviet sub.

There was Project Jennifer. That was the cover story for Glomar Explorers mission to raise a sunken Golf II off the bottom of the pacific. Basically the ship was suppose to mine manganese ore nodules that carpet the seabed in many areas via a large suction dredge. Later after the while thing was blown to the press and the sub had been partly retrieved she actually did so for a year.

However in the late 1990's an oil company leased and modified her to carry a deep ocean oil drilling rig.