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re: Has anyone ever tried to dig to the center of the earth?
Posted on 6/9/25 at 9:37 am to SuckerPunch
Posted on 6/9/25 at 9:37 am to SuckerPunch
My son and his buddies tried to dig to China on the beach at Hilton Head several years ago but the turtle police came by on their patrol and shut them down. They only got to about 3 feet.
Side note about this incident: My son and his buddies then went on to write and record this song after that incident. It was originally titled “frick Tha Turtle Police”, but the record label was afraid that wouldn’t have the desired mainstream appeal that “frick Tha Police” would have.
Side note about this incident: My son and his buddies then went on to write and record this song after that incident. It was originally titled “frick Tha Turtle Police”, but the record label was afraid that wouldn’t have the desired mainstream appeal that “frick Tha Police” would have.
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 9:47 am
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Posted on 6/9/25 at 9:57 am to Poichess
The Russians had a "turbo drill" that was much faster than the more conventional drills used in hydrocarbon search. The turbo drill yielded clay sized cuttings that were too small to examine, came out of the earth in boiling 'water' and got down fast, if all you wanted was to go fast.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:04 am to Poichess
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Kola Superdeep Borehole In Russia
Over 12k meters deep and thats not even halfway through the crust.
I think their drill bits started melting and thats why they couldnt go deeper.
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 10:08 am
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:16 am to SuckerPunch
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Has anyone ever tried to dig to the center of the earth?
My brothers and I tried when I was 8 years old. We almost got there.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:21 am to TheEnglishman
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I think their drill bits started melting and thats why they couldnt go deeper
They saw temperatures of around 180 deg C. Wells drilled in the Haynesville can get up to 200 deg C.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:23 am to CAD703X
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Y'all are killing me Is this a boy right of passage?? I still remember the arse beating I got for trying. Parents just don't respect the scientific process I'm still laughing
Yep. Not sure how many feet I went down, but I gave up on the shovel very quickly and used water boring. That’s right- I got the hose and turned it on full blast with a nozzle on it and started pushing the hose down into the ground. I do t remember how far I made it (I was about 6-7 years old and a lot of years have passed since then) but it was far enough that the hose was stuck in the ground.
Dad was in the Air Force and we lived on base in base housing at the time. For those of you who don’t have any experience living on a military installation, there are rules about things. Your home, your yard, etc are government property and the government does not appreciate damage to their property. When my
Dad got home from work that day he had to fix the problem of a hose embedded in the yard. I don’t remember if he dug it out of just cut it off and got a new one. Not to mention a soggy, drenched, muddy yard. Yeah- I got in trouble for that one.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:42 am to Wiseguy
I have a beagle for whom this is his life’s ambition
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:53 am to hawgndodge
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I'm no scientist but how could the center of the earth, which is just short of 25k miles in circumference, be only 4k miles to the center? Wouldn't the center be 12k miles or so deep?
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I'm no scientist
Don't sell yourself so short. You had me fooled.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:09 am to SuckerPunch
Once.... In a sand box.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:10 am to Topwater Trout
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call before you dig
Excellent!
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:11 am to GeauxLSUGeaux
quote:not if your ship, Virgil, is made of Unobtainium. It withstands eminence pressure and extracts energy from the earth
Once you'd get to a certain point ( not even close to the center, btw ) the temperature and pressure would be too high.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:17 am to Bussemer
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The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 (Russian: ???????? ????????????? ???????? ??-3, romanized: Kol'skaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina SG-3) is the deepest human-made hole on Earth (since 1979), which attained maximum true vertical depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft; 7.619 mi) in 1989.[1] It is the result of a scientific drilling effort to penetrate as deeply as possible into the Earth's crust conducted by the Soviet Union in the Pechengsky District of the Kola Peninsula, near the Russian border with Norway.
not quite as deep but Freeport McMoran drilled a 30,000' gas well in St Martin Parish back in 2014
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:18 am to SuckerPunch
Posted on 6/9/25 at 11:47 am to Vrai
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I tried digging to China when I was a kid. Got about 2 feet down before I called it a day
My digging was to create my own cave. I got 4 feet down and hit clay which was quickly followed by my giving up on my dreams of hermitdom.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 12:13 pm to TheEnglishman
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I think their drill bits started melting and thats why they couldnt go deeper.
Yep. They sealed it shut. Conspiracy theory is you could hear the wailing of souls in hell.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 12:44 pm to SuckerPunch
As a child, digging for china.
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 6/9/25 at 12:47 pm to SuckerPunch
Hasn’t every kid tried to dig through the earth? I made it about three feet. Found what was probably a fragment of bone from a bird. Was very proud of my work.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 12:53 pm to SuckerPunch
I did when I was a kid. My parents were pissed.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 12:56 pm to SuckerPunch
There are minerals everywhere, oil and gas everywhere, etc. You just have to dig them up. Cost is the issue..
Posted on 6/9/25 at 12:56 pm to danilo
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I ain’t Bugs Bunny
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