[...] 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.
Lake Peigneur was swallowed by a whirlpool like in an anime, in a sad drilling that took away entire boats. The salt geologic bubble under the lake can absorb gigantic volumes of water, and a drilling for the exploitation of petrol initiated the hole.
> 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.
AviationAtom 4 hours ago [-]
Y'all done hugged it to death
B1FF_PSUVM 4 hours ago [-]
It was erroring out 12h ago.
4 hours ago [-]
Avicebron 6 hours ago [-]
I forget how cool Lake Baikal is until it shows up randomly and I'm reminded to go look it up again.
neilv 4 hours ago [-]
What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?
rolfus 4 hours ago [-]
There's a documentary about that, in the form of the 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 :-)
tialaramex 2 hours 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 2 hours 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.)
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ma0SVjMHA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3266:_Holes
The Wikipedia page on borehole doesn’t mention Deep Water Horizon at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shaheen_Oil_Field
> 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.
https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload
Edit: thanks, that's an(other) hour of my life I'll never get back :-)
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.)
Kola Superdeep Borehole is not massive. It's a small cylindrical hole in the ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole#/media...
Mponeng is a massive continuously commercially operating mine with 5k workers