What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?
There's a documentary about that, in the form of the game 'Motherload'
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Site down? The Wikipedia page on borehole doesn’t mention Deep Water Horizon at all.
And Wikipedia says this one is over 12,000m deep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shaheen_Oil_Field
The >12km number is length, not depth:
> However, in May 2008, a new record for borehole length was established by the extended-reach drilling (ERD) well BD-04A, in the Al Shaheen oil field. It was drilled to 12,289 m (40,318 ft), with a record horizontal reach of 10,902 m (35,768 ft) in only 36 days.
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#24Hover text is "If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do."
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#25What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?
There's a documentary about that, in the form of the game 'Motherload' https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload
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 :-)
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#26Lake 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.
Oh right. Basically China has its own tectonic plate, with Baikal on the rift, top left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_plate I did not know that.
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#27Hover text is "If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do."
I'm excited for them too!
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#28Hover text is "If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do."
Haha I definitely googled that, and I was not disappointed
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#29You cannot convince me that something ridiculous wasn't covered up wrt Deepwater Horizon.
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#30Hover text is "If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do."