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Welcome To The Deepest Hole In The World!!! by noble2faith(m): 9:46pm On May 27, 2018
Deep in western Russia, if you know where to look, you'll find a small collection of ragged scrap metal and crumbled concrete. Which isn't that exciting.
But if you rifle through the rubble, you will find a large, metal disc bolted to the ground. This isn't just any old disc - it's the welded-shut cap of a boreholethat plummets more than 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) into the Earth.

How deep is 12 kilometres, comparatively?

Well, that's deeper than the deepest point of the ocean, and it's the deepest hole we've ever dug into the Earth.
It's called the Kola Superdeep Borehole, and time to celebrate, everybody, because it's got nothing to do with extracting oil! It's there purely for the wonderful science of it all.
When Soviet scientists started drilling down into Earth's surface during the 1970s, they did it to find out more about the contents of its crust.
"Because the truth is, we know less about what's under our feet than what's on the other side of the Solar System," explains Hank Green in this 2014 episode of SciShow .
Over the next 24 years, these scientists drilled down on and off, and while they didn't get down as far as they were hoping, by 1994, they'd made it just over 12 kilometres.
Which is certainly nothing to sniff at, because it happens to be a record-breaking dig that still stands today, and the drill technology they had to develop to get down there is pretty remarkable.

But what did we actually learn from all of this hard work?
As Hank explains, we learnt a whole lot!

Firstly, the fact that there's water at 12 kilometres into Earth's crust, which scientists wouldn't have even thought possible had they not seen it with their own eyes.
And almost 7 kilometres down (4.4 miles), they found microscopic fossils of 24 species of long-dead single-celled organisms.
They also gained access to rocks 2.7 BILLION years old, which is awesome, but these rocks became the challenge that the scientists just could not overcome.
Why? Because their temperature was around 180 degrees Celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit) - about 80 over what the scientists predicted. Will we ever figure out how to get down further than this?
Well, 1994 was a long time ago, so never say never.

Re: Welcome To The Deepest Hole In The World!!! by greatnaija01: 9:55pm On May 27, 2018
HELL HOLE
Re: Welcome To The Deepest Hole In The World!!! by tballeyy(m): 9:56pm On May 27, 2018
Bye bye to that man going deep in there
Re: Welcome To The Deepest Hole In The World!!! by decatalyst(m): 10:05pm On May 27, 2018
Una go find Wetin loss for una hand ooo



Bye bye

Re: Welcome To The Deepest Hole In The World!!! by Anigreat: 10:16pm On May 27, 2018
shocked






No you are liar!


Mr/mrs Jack daughter , Miss Florentina pusssy hole is hundred times deeper than that hole, more wider than the ocean. what are you telling meehn!

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