Deepest underground structures
An evening pause: This is not a complete list, as it leaves out some very deep caves and mines that I myself have actually visited, but it truly does provide a sense of scale. It also mixes artificial structures with natural features.
Hat tip Cotour.
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Unbelievable. That is a lot of mass above you. I guess I didn’t know that oil wells went down to 35,000 feet. I wonder if we will ever know how much oil is truly below our feet. Better bankrupt our civilization, because we’re not sure.
Oil wells going down to 35,000 feet proves oil is not a fossil fuel. It is produced naturally deep in the earth’s crust.
PG:
“But is the O-14 really 49,000 feet deep? The short answer is no, because there is one little catch: directional drilling.”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Truth-About-The-Worlds-Deepest-Oil-Well.html
“In terms of vertical depth, though, BP’s Tiber field in the Gulf of Mexico, drilled by the infamous Deepwater Horizon, became the location for the deepest oil well. The Tiber well’s depth – true vertical depth – was more than 35,000 feet.”
I suspect that abiotic oil is the result, as is “Fossil” fuel-based oil and gas is essentially the same thing.
Massive amounts of biological material being laid down over eons of time and driven down to depth through plate tectonics to where it is very deep and has been there for a long, long time. The earth has been biologically active for the last 3.5 billion years?
I found the video very interesting in how it gave perspective and scale to something that is difficult to visualize.
Good one Cotour. Thanks.
Reminds me I watched a great movie on Amazon Prime called “Thirteen Lives” starring Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell and directed by Ron Howard about the 2018 rescue of the boys’ soccer team and their coach from a cave in Thailand.
Like other commenters here I blame fairies.
OK… two things…
Why is the Turtle crying? (Tears of the Turtle Cave)
Because he’s the bottom turtle. It is not really turtles all the way down.
What are they observing 1,000m underground? Usually “observatories” are for looking at the stars. Kamioka Observatory looks like a contractor misread the blueprints and nobody questioned them on the cost overruns for digging a deep hole.
Noticed some inconsistency with negative numbers appearing. Weird.
All of that really cool.
Jahaziel Maqqebet
November 30, 2022 at 8:43 am
Like other commenters here I blame fairies.
Well, in the case of mines, you’d need to blame kobolds. Fairies are lazy and don’t like to get their hands (or wings) dirty. Kobolds do real work. :)
wow.
I had to clear my “ears” due to multiple popping on the way down.
GWB: These deep underground observatories are for detecting neutrinos, which can pass through the Earth quite easily. By placing the neutrino detector deep underground you isolate it from other energy sources that could make detection difficult.
Robert Zimmerman
November 30, 2022 at 10:41 am
I figured that might be what it was. But it should be labelled that way in the video. (Not your problem, obviously.)
Also, I think that idea makes a materialistic assumption there are no “energy sources” in the Great Deep. The Old Ones are not forever content to be ignored. ;)
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I noticed that they showed another, further underground laboratory and that one was labelled as a neutrino observatory; Kamioka in particular does that, too, but they’re also a gravity wave observatory, and the work there and at other similar sites is how we’ve largely confirmed that, however gravity propagates, it seems to do so at the speed of light, since the gravity waves from events arrive at the same time as the light.
Boobah
November 30, 2022 at 1:16 pm
Ahhhh, ok. Thanks.