Journey To the Mantle of the Earth By 2020

An anonymous reader writes "A half-century after the first attempt to drill through the ocean crust into the Earth's mantle, a new campaign armed with improved technology is underway that could reach the mantle by the end of the decade, researchers say."

Looking back now, it was a terrible mistake

[elrous0]

But how could we have known that's where those alien microbes were? God help us, HOW COULD WE HAVE KNOWN!?

I predict...

[Stenchwarrior]

...they'll find a bunch of lonley socks. I mean, those fuckers have to end up somewhere.

Old News

[bedouin]

Shredder and Krang already did this in like 1989.

Re:Looking back now, it was a terrible mistake

[Dunbal]

Hah - don't worry. The only thing the LHC is destroying is budgets, deadlines and large sums of money.

Re:Looking back now, it was a terrible mistake

[ElectricTurtle]

I'm not sure if you and those of like mind responding are seriously stupid or just trolling. Volcanoes have been doing this as long as the earth has had a crust. It's not going to do anything to 'core spin' or cause some unstoppable lava flow. It's not like the earth is a fucking water balloon that's going to pop as soon as somebody pokes it with a pin.

Re:Heat issues

[sootman]

They'll go at night! Wait, sorry, wrong joke.

Re:Nuclear waste disposal

[scubamage]

However you must understand that there will be a tremendous amount of upwards pressure in the shaft.

Giggity.