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#2What are all those oops for?
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#3What are all those oops for?
collapses and floods it looks like. Here's the oops for the Pantai Remis mine
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#4I forget how cool Lake Baikal is until it shows up randomly and I'm reminded to go look it up again.
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#5I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.
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#6I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.
Did you not scroll over to see the even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?
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#8Explain xkcd has links to the Wikipedia articles for each hole.
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#9I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.
Did you not scroll over to see the even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?
> even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?
Kola Superdeep Borehole is not massive. It's a small cylindrical hole in the ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole#/media...
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Mponeng is a massive continuously commercially operating mine with 5k workers
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#10Lake Baikal sediment layer almost as deep as the Mariana Trench:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydr...
[...] and below this lies some 7 km (4.3 mi) of sediment, placing the rift floor some 8–11 km (5.0–6.8 mi) below the surface, the deepest continental rift on Earth.