Japan-led research group preparing to drill down to the mantle.
Direct observation of the mantle is expected to reveal things such as its hardness and how much water it contains, which could pave the way to better understanding of the plate movements and unveil how the planet was formed.
Get the story @ Japan News.
Why am I thinking of that movie “Crack in the World…”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/?ref_=nv_sr_1
But, AlGore said the Earth’s mantle is hundreds of thousands degrees.
Take it from me Japan, you can’t get to China that way.
Tried this once before and:
ended in 1992 because scientists pierced a super-hot cavity and heard the screams of damned souls. [source]
Uh oh, here comes Cthulu
And why not? There hasn’t been a giant monster rampage for a while so might as well go dig a new one up.
They’re digging to reach a US baseball park for grasshoppers and oysters.
Godzilla, also comes to mind.
I know how the Earth began. It started with the phrase “Let there be light.”
@eternal cp: Those weren’t damned souls – they were Hillary supporters on November 8.
P.S. – A microphone that could withstand those temperatures? Seriously?
🙂
They are going to puncture the blather nd let out all of the air.
Sure – – release the demons. Why not? It’s the end of the world I tell ya’.
Save themselves the trouble and go down to antartica and ask the aliens at the base. they’ve been there.
They told me.
gotta get thicker tin foil.
Excellent link cracker.
@Billy – but how do you feel? Fine? 🙂
Next thing you know we’ll be having GODZILLA sighting around the world!
They’d crap if the ocean started draining.
I’d like to see the calculations on the mud weight.
Gozirra issa coming!
They should have patience- isn’t fukushima doing that already?
I guess just drilling into the pressurized lava core of an active mega-volcano didn’t sound ambitious enough on the Grant Proposal.
Japanese build nuclear reactors on active earthquake sectors. I think they’re actually insane enough to drill into the Magma.
Pompeii 2018.
Ah drirr sixteen cricks
Wa-da i get?
Ah-nada day owe-da anna deepah in debt
St. Petah don be carrin’ fo me today
Cause ahm a drirrin’ da othah way!
What could go wrong?
Japanese bullet train to New York?
Someone better warm up Mothra. Whenever the Nips go more than 20′ underground they piss something off.
No, this time they gonna need UltraMan. Sumting wicked
this way comes!
Maybe they’ll find Obola’s birth certificate …
izlamo delenda est …