https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Mon, 06 Jun 2022 15:26:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-74412 Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:05:33 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-74412 Hey JarvisLoop!
I’m still here too.

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-73589 Wed, 18 Nov 2020 03:53:02 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-73589 I am still here.

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-73356 Sun, 07 Jun 2020 01:37:42 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-73356 Not a year, I think.

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-73243 Sat, 15 Feb 2020 03:38:40 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-73243 Almost another year gone. How much longer will I last?

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-72845 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 01:15:20 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-72845 Checking back in. And a year of my life has gone by in a flash. I don’t have much time left.

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-72495 Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:12:42 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-72495 Exxon Neftegas Ltd (ENL) has completed drilling the world’s deepest well in the Chayvo oil field on the Sakhalin shelf in the Russian Far East.
­The shaft of well Z-44 is 12,376 meter deep, which is the equivalent to 15 times the height of the world tallest skyscraper the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Done in 2012

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-72480 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 01:35:26 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-72480 I remember this one clearly. I don’t know why I didn’t post anything.

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-72032 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:40:57 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-72032 Why does everyone want to go vertical? Tunneling would make far more sense, at a 15 degree angle, the world’s longest tunnel, the Delaware Aqueduct at 85.1 miles, would be 22 miles deep. Water cool the walls and use the heat to generate electricity and help pay for the project. If you keep going it could even be used as a shortcut somewhere :) And, halfway thru the tunnel would be level! You could ride to the middle with no power….So many things to consider….

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-72021 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 02:07:26 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-72021 An old film entitled “Crack in the World” speculated a nuclear bomb detonated at the lowest possible depth would solve the drilling problem. It worked (and probably would in real life) But there were unintended consequences. (Perhaps in real life, too)

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/#comment-71834 Sat, 05 Nov 2016 04:32:13 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=567#comment-71834 NECROPOST! The dead comments have arisen! I just wanted to say that it seems a shame to let such a fine scientific site turn into total rusty crap. The place looks like Siberian Meth Heads stripped it of copper wire and anything of any value whatsoever, kind of sad.

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