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The Soviets tried to drill through the earth, and drilled to 16,262 meters why they stopped drilling down?

The Soviets tried to drill through the earth

By Fei FeiPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Nowadays, human beings are exploring more and more deeply into the unknown, our human Voyager vehicle is about to fly out of the solar system, which is already very far away from the Earth, and the Moon has been logged many times, and several planets near the Earth have been approached by man-made probes, human beings have made great achievements in exploring space, but human beings do not know the Earth very well, for example, what will be under the earth that we step on? Now the internal structure of the Earth is only a speculation, and no man-made probes have gone in, so many things can not be easily concluded.

Our surface is about 6000 km from the deepest part of the earth, this distance does not seem far, but humans know very little about the earth's internal environment, we now know more about the universe than we know about the interior of the earth, the deepest mine that we humans exist now is only 1 km, far from the deepest part of the earth's core.

So, distant space can be probed, why mankind has not dug up the ground to see what's underneath? This plan had been implemented in the former Soviet Union, the former Soviet Union was envisioned at the time, as digging a hole in the ground, and then seeing what the interior of the Earth is really like.

In the implementation of this plan, just when the two superpowers engaged in competition, although the external claim is an expedition, the true meaning of what we all know, this time the Soviet Union seized the opportunity to think of such a way, this project just started very smoothly, it is said that the exploration to more than 8000 meters when found a lot of valuable ore.

Drilling this thing sounds very simple, but the further down the more difficult, the depth of each 100 meters will increase the temperature by several degrees, and worth mining less and fewer items, that is, the following are worthless boulders, which are huge damage to the drill, after a short time you need to change a drill, which undoubtedly slowed down a lot, after several years of effort, the depth to 12,000 meters, which But mankind can dig to the deepest place.

If the normal down drilling, is much faster than this, only because down drilling to more than 7000 meters when the drill bit is damaged, and difficult to remove, resulting in a slowdown, and finally after a series of operations still reached 12,000 meters, which is the deepest depth of exploration in the world.

Time to 1992, this time has not heard the news about the drilling, in fact, otherwise, the project was finally announced to stop, funding is one aspect, and there is a very strange reason, let people feel scared, first of all, is that the underground stone is too hard, technology has not reached the conditions of the drill.

The second reason is very bizarre, the researchers at the time after mining to a certain depth, actually heard bizarre sounds, these sounds include crying, and moaning, as if the door to hell is open, it is because these two reasons led to the project stopping. Although this exploration paid a great price, the harvest is not small, the study of the underlying decomposition. And researchers also found that the rocks deep in the Earth are similar to the composition of the moon's rocks, that is to say, the Earth and the moon are very close to each other.

After another 10 years, the scientific research team composed of several countries again into the experimental site, the result was a horrible event, researchers found that the iron manhole cover used to close the surprisingly moved and also thrown very messy, and the crowd can not explain clearly what is going on, and then the researchers began to dive into the underground to find out, but only 500 meters down to find that the underground will smoke, and there is a strange sound, the frightened researchers returned to the surface, actually had a sickness.

Immediately after this place was placed under martial law, no one can approach it, and until now this place is closed deep well, and no one can give a reasonable explanation for the previous events. Currently, our country's drilling rigs have reached a maximum depth of 15,000 meters, but we are not using them for scientific research, but for natural gas extraction.

What do people think these researchers saw that caused the great sickness? Feel free to leave comments.

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Fei Fei

Fantasy is the poet's wings, hypothesis is the ladder of science。

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