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What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?

by neilv 3mo ago

zokier 3mo ago
conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/ https://xkcd.com/1330/
rolfus 3mo ago
There's a documentary about that, in the form of the game 'Motherload' https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload
- rationalist 3mo ago
  I played that game way back when - I highly recommend it. Edit: thanks, that's an(other) hour of my life I'll never get back :-)
- Suppafly 3mo ago
  I used to play that at work, I thought it went away when all the other flash games went away.
tialaramex 3mo ago
Nothing of great interest. That's a tiny scratch in the surface of the planet, less than 1% of the radius. On the other hand although we lack the technology you'd need to destroy the damp rock where we live, we only live on some dry-ish outside surface parts of the rock, and we could trash that part and drive ourselves extinct. "Oops"
- geor9e 3mo ago
  They were asking why the two deepest holes, despite being nowhere near each other, dug decades apart, are 99.3% of 12km and 99.5% of 12km respectively. Was BP symbolically honoring the russian scientists? Does the earth have an extremely uniform material property that happens to be at a very round number of km? Just a complete coincidence all around? (I asked AI, and it says coincidence, since BP stopped drilling once they hit oil, and the russians stopped drilling once they hit some melty rock.)
  - tialaramex 3mo ago
    Also in both cases economic reasons. BP drilled to reach oil which makes economic sense, but AIUI the Russians wanted to keep drilling but eventually central government wouldn't give them any more money. But yes, largely a coincidence. I think humans would see the same "pattern" if it were slightly more than 12km. We like patterns, we're the superstitious pigeon experiment but at a ludicrous scale. I would like to think the patterns I've seen point at some underlying more important truth - but the pigeon thought so too.
Gander5739 3mo ago
Hell: https://xkcd.com/1330/ https://xkcd.com/1330/

What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?

by neilv 3mo ago

What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?

zokier 3mo ago

conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/ https://xkcd.com/1330/

rolfus 3mo ago

There's a documentary about that, in the form of the game 'Motherload' https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload

rationalist 3mo ago
I played that game way back when - I highly recommend it. Edit: thanks, that's an(other) hour of my life I'll never get back :-)
Suppafly 3mo ago
I used to play that at work, I thought it went away when all the other flash games went away.

tialaramex 3mo ago

Nothing of great interest. That's a tiny scratch in the surface of the planet, less than 1% of the radius. On the other hand although we lack the technology you'd need to destroy the damp rock where we live, we only live on some dry-ish outside surface parts of the rock, and we could trash that part and drive ourselves extinct. "Oops"

geor9e 3mo ago
They were asking why the two deepest holes, despite being nowhere near each other, dug decades apart, are 99.3% of 12km and 99.5% of 12km respectively. Was BP symbolically honoring the russian scientists? Does the earth have an extremely uniform material property that happens to be at a very round number of km? Just a complete coincidence all around? (I asked AI, and it says coincidence, since BP stopped drilling once they hit oil, and the russians stopped drilling once they hit some melty rock.)
- tialaramex 3mo ago
  Also in both cases economic reasons. BP drilled to reach oil which makes economic sense, but AIUI the Russians wanted to keep drilling but eventually central government wouldn't give them any more money. But yes, largely a coincidence. I think humans would see the same "pattern" if it were slightly more than 12km. We like patterns, we're the superstitious pigeon experiment but at a ludicrous scale. I would like to think the patterns I've seen point at some underlying more important truth - but the pigeon thought so too.

Gander5739 3mo ago

Hell: https://xkcd.com/1330/ https://xkcd.com/1330/