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The Soviets once wanted to drill through the earth, and why didn't they drill down to 16,262 meters?

The Soviets once wanted to drill through the earth

By witty lukasPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Nowadays, human beings are exploring more and more unknown areas. Our human Voyager spacecraft is about to fly out of the solar system and is already very far from the earth. Moreover, the moon has been logged on many times, and several planets near the earth are approached by artificial probes. Humans have made great achievements in exploring space, but human understanding of the earth is not very deep. For example, what will be under the earth that we step on? The current internal structure of the earth is only a speculation, and no artificial probe has ever entered it, so many things cannot be easily concluded.

Our surface is about 6,000 kilometers from the deepest point of the earth. This distance does not seem to be far away, but human beings know very little about the internal environment of the earth. The knowledge of the universe we know now is better than the knowledge of the interior of the earth. It is much more. The deepest mines that we humans exist today are only 1 kilometer deep, which is not far from the deepest depth of the earth.

So, the distant space can be probed, why didn't humans dig up the ground to see what's underneath? In fact, this plan was implemented in the former Soviet Union. What the former Soviet Union envisioned at the time was to dig a hole in the ground and see what the inside of the earth looks like.

When this plan was implemented, it happened to be when the two superpowers were engaged in competition. Although it was declared to be an investigation, everyone knew what the real meaning was. This time, the Soviet Union actually thought of such a method in order to seize the opportunity. The project was very smooth at the beginning. It is said that a lot of valuable ores were discovered when the exploration reached more than 8,000 meters.

Drilling into the ground sounds simple, but the more you go down, the more difficult it becomes. For every 100 meters of depth, the temperature will rise several degrees, and there are fewer and fewer items worth mining, which means that everything below is worthless. Big stones, the damage to the drill bit is huge. It will take a long time to change the drill bit, which will undoubtedly slow down the speed a lot. After several years of hard work, the depth has reached 12,000 meters, which is the deepest human can dig. place.

If you drill down normally, it will be much faster than this, just because the drill bit is damaged when you drill down to more than 7,000 meters, and it is difficult to take it out, which slows down the speed. Finally, after a series of operations, it still reaches 12,000 meters, which is the deepest in the world. depth of exploration.

It was 1992. At this time, there was no news about drilling. In fact, otherwise the project was finally announced to be stopped. Funding is one aspect, and there is another reason that is very strange and makes people feel afraid. The first is the underground stone. It is too hard, and the technology has not reached the conditions for drilling.

The second reason is very strange. After mining to a certain depth, the researchers at that time actually heard strange sounds. These sounds included crying and moaning, as if the door to hell had been opened, which is because of these two reasons. Engineering stopped. Although this exploration has paid a great price, the harvest is really not small, and the research has made clear the decomposition of the bottom layer. Moreover, the researchers also found that the rocks deep in the earth are actually similar to the rocks of the moon, which means that the relationship between the earth and the moon is very close.

After more than 10 years, the scientific research team composed of many countries entered the experimental site again. As a result, a terrorist incident occurred. They couldn't explain what was going on. Later, the researchers began to dive into the ground to find out, but after diving for only 500 meters, they found that there would be smoke and strange sounds underground. The frightened researchers returned to the ground. After the surface, they all fell ill.

Immediately afterwards, the place was under martial law, no one could approach it, and until now the deep wells in this place have been closed, and no one can give a reasonable explanation for the previous incident. At present, the deepest drilling platform in our country has reached 15,000 meters, but we are not used for scientific research, but for natural gas extraction.

What do you think these researchers saw that led to a serious illness? Welcome to leave a message.

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