$1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 2, 2012 @01:37AM from the because-it's-the-closest-one dept.

black6host writes "Humans have reached the moon and are planning to return samples from Mars, but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet. This may be about to change with a $1 billion mission to drill 6 km (3.7 miles) beneath the seafloor to reach the Earth's mantle — a 3000 km-thick layer of slowly deforming rock between the crust and the core which makes up the majority of our planet — and bring back the first ever fresh samples."

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Re:Paging Lawrence Fishburn by firex726 · 2012-10-02 01:44 · Score: 3, Insightful

Oh god that movie was so bad. IDK why people rag on Armageddon so much but we never hear anything about The Core.
Re:Paging Lawrence Fishburn by beamdriver · 2012-10-02 02:02 · Score: 4, Insightful

Because The Core is a fun, silly movie meant to be enjoyed with your brain in the off position.
I particularly liked the part when they got stuck in a giant geode. The only way it could have been better would have been if there were dinosaurs in the geode.