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What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?
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"
What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?
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"
(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.)
Anyone who wants the large image can click/tap the image, but the revere is harder to do.
In the other direction, Mt. Everest is 8,848.86 meters above sea level. I guess we don't include Lake Tahoe and/or Crater Lake because even though they're deep(ish), their bottoms are above way sea level?
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Helps to see the alt-text if you're on a phone.
XKCD always has a mobile version. You need add a m. prefix - https://m.xkcd.com/3266/ Helps to see the alt-text if you're on a phone.
Lake 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.
Hover 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."
Forget about that, I just learned there’s a salt mine under Detroit!