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What happens when you hit the mantle? Does the rock come out or solidify in the pipe, how does the drill cope with the heat?
by petenixey 14y ago
What happens when you hit the mantle? Does the rock come out or solidify in the pipe, how does the drill cope with the heat?
- brentm 14y agopretty sure no one has any real idea only theories. hopefully it doesn't start some crazy volcano that eventually engulfs everything. when this planet does go the way of the buffalo it likely will be our own fault.
- sharkweek 14y agoI was secretly hoping for that Russian drill team in the arctic tapping into that frozen lake to unleash some sort of crazy frozen, earth-destroying demon/alien Perhaps I will shift my wishes to this mantle quest to unlease some fiery, earth-destroying demon/alien.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoI would expect it to be Cthulhu, myself. So, maybe not fiery, but earth-destroying demon/alien fits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu
- anonymfus 14y agoYou will like this Doctor Who episode if you didn't see it yet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Doctor_Who) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Doctor_Who)
- nnnnni 14y agoThe first thing that came to mind was this one: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS31E08TheHungryEarth http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS31E08T...
- bobwaycott 14y agoI thought of the Racnoss (from the Runaway Bride episode).
- camiller 14y agoThe drill team will start every morning with a rousing cheer "Release the Kracken!"
- Evbn 14y agoThat is the Tarn Adams theory.
- molmalo 14y agoFollowing this line of funny ideas, I'm betting that some followers of the Hollow Earth Theory[1] must be thinking: "bah, more money spent to perpetuate the fiasco, why don't they just enter through the poles?" And yes, there are still quite a few people believing this.[2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth [2] http://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+earth+conspiracy http://www.google.com/search?q=hollow+earth+conspiracy, http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2011/01/hollow-earth-evidence.html http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2011/01/hollow-earth-evid...
- jerf 14y agoRemember pressures. Any fiery, earth-destroying demon/alien would consider where we live to be incredibly inhospitable, on the grounds that if they actually come up here, they will explode. And not even nuclear-style "wipe out all life on Earth, ha ha ha!" type explosion, but just a dead-fiery-earth-destroying-demon/alien-making-a-short-lived-unpleasant-mess sort of explode. You wouldn't want to be standing right next to it, but on the grand earth-destroying scale it'd be barely a blip.
- techas 14y agoThe mantle is solid rock. In some special environments (mid-oceanic ridges, subduction zones, etc) you can expect to have some percentage of melted mantle rocks, but this is not the general case. We know that the mantle is solid because it can transmit shear seismic waves.