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Journey To the Mantle of the Earth By 2020

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the going-down-down-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A half-century after the first attempt to drill through the ocean crust into the Earth's mantle, a new campaign armed with improved technology is underway that could reach the mantle by the end of the decade, researchers say."

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  1. Looking back now, it was a terrible mistake by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But how could we have known that's where those alien microbes were? God help us, HOW COULD WE HAVE KNOWN!?

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    1. Re:Looking back now, it was a terrible mistake by Dunbal · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hah - don't worry. The only thing the LHC is destroying is budgets, deadlines and large sums of money.

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    2. Re:Looking back now, it was a terrible mistake by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm not sure if you and those of like mind responding are seriously stupid or just trolling. Volcanoes have been doing this as long as the earth has had a crust. It's not going to do anything to 'core spin' or cause some unstoppable lava flow. It's not like the earth is a fucking water balloon that's going to pop as soon as somebody pokes it with a pin.

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  2. I predict... by Stenchwarrior · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...they'll find a bunch of lonley socks. I mean, those fuckers have to end up somewhere.

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  3. Old News by bedouin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shredder and Krang already did this in like 1989.

  4. Re:Heat issues by sootman · · Score: 4, Funny

    They'll go at night! Wait, sorry, wrong joke.

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  5. Re:Nuclear waste disposal by scubamage · · Score: 2, Funny

    However you must understand that there will be a tremendous amount of upwards pressure in the shaft.

    Giggity.