How Deep Could We Dig?
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Preferably, we'd stop before we hit the molten stuff.
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The deepest hole I ever saw someone dig was during a speech at a wedding
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Oh you were there. Sorry.
Quality comment
Lol
I have one coming up. Thank you for reminding me to keep it simple
Digging a hole by hand to the depth of a 120-story building is pretty darn impressive.
Thank you but yo momma did half of the work
"The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame."
I see you’re a man of culture 😏
@@theswullnasty3353 Only the finest culture.
I give you a pass for citing this, but the gray hat guy probably still isn't doing so...
Strike the earth!
I hate to break the bubble on this chat but that movies kind of fake lol Balrog isn't real that part is cgi
I tried digging a hole to China when I was a kid. Unfortunately I lived in a swamp and 6 inches down I hit water. So then I decided to dig a swimming hole. A determined kid can shift a lot of dirt in five hours, Mom was not happy 😃
Linus Van Pelt tried the same thing in the fifties
My friend as a child was digging a hole to China in his sandbox. He made it a couple feet down by the time I moved but he hadn’t made it that far past the sand lol
Haha, I did the same thing in Maryland where we had thick clay about 18 inches down. I'm impressed that you had the initiative to keep going. I stopped and left an ankle-breaker
Mom should have checked in on you about every hour.
Cringe
I still remember one of the first times i ever even heard the concept of digging a giant hole, it was some Australian movie, was some kid in the movie that wanted to dig a hole to china, spends all day digging this massive hole on a beach before his dad comes out and tells him he has to stop and go to bed, next morning some Asian guy just taking a stroll down the beach, falls into the hole, kid just happens to wake up and walk outside as the Asian guy is climbing back out of the hole, runs back into the house screaming DAD!!!! lol.
yes .. I can't remember the movies name ether.. but your comment made me remember that. to funny
There was also a skit on SNL with Jackie Chan as the guest. (Jackie was digging the other way, and met the American when the tunnels intersected)
@@JohnDlugosz haha, I'll have to look that one up, gotta love Jackie Chan, thanks for the heads up!
Omg yes thats the only.scene i remember from that movie
Pretty sure the movie title is along the lines of 'Magic in the water' or something.
You can only dig half-way into the earth. After that, you're digging out again.
Lmao your not wrong
That is what I dont get what will happen if u start going to the other side of the earth?
@@lil_dlv3400 yeah I know right will gravity switch when you get half way?
@@DrDIYhax speaking very generally, yes it would switch once you pass "the center". Its kinda crazy to think about imo.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! 😮
The title : How Deep Could We Dig?
The actual video : How Deep Did We Dig?
I think, somehwere near the beginning, he implied 50km max - that being the width of the earth's crust at its widest point. Beneath that, rock is molten (like hot caramel) and, as he quickly pointed out, it doesn't make much sense to talk about "digging" through liquid. But you're right. The question he posed was not definitively answered. And his ironically condescending air suggested one ought to feel embarrassed even to ask a second time (or to ask him to explain why communism might not be a viable alternative to Exxon/Mobil for getting things done). There you go. English professionals in a nutshell.
@@ericcolvin3546 I agree. Hoped for a little more thought effort since it's actually a tricky question. A few corrections. Could get a long answer. The rock in the earths mantle is not liquid, just in the outer core. At temperatures of 180-200 °C the rock is also not behaving plastic. This begins at minimum 600 °C or way higher, depending also on the pressure and composition. For the Kola superdeep borehole the temperatures were the limiting problem, but not caused by plastic behavior of the rock, but the high temperatures was damaging the drilling instruments. Now some additional mentions: Plastic behavior of rock does not mean a liquid rock. It's still solid but higher temperatures allow them to be easier deformed, especially over time scales of many million of years (similar thing also for the mantle flows -> happening over long time scales!). The actual limitations for the deepest possible boreholes of my perspective are lying in new materials and alloys that can drill under insane temperature and pressure conditions. Machines that can lift many hundred tons of steel drilling pipes are required. Actually the Kola borehole was a good choice, because there is an old craton, which lithosphere is compared really cold and up to 250 km thick, whats the upper end for lithosphere thickness. The Crust there is just 50 km deep, but the lithospheric mantle there differentiates from the deep crust just in the composition of the rocks and of course higher temperatures, but not by rheological behavior. A plastic behavior is taking place below the Lithosphere in the Asthenosphere. Sry for that long text, but as a mineralogy student I wanted to clear up some of the things he mentioned. Although I kind of critised, keep going with some geology content now and then
Wow, @@sammycals2436 , thank you so much for such a detailed answer. Fascinating. Before this, most of what I knew came from Ladybird books likely published in the sixties and not updated by the time I read them around the age of 8. I will have to look up many of your terms (and if I can't understand the explainations, I'll resort to my brother-in-law) - but these drew me in, and are wonderful pointers to help me learn a great deal more about the mystery of the Earth's core.
@@sammycals2436 Thank you, your comment ia actually better and more informative than the video :)
Yep a waffling idiot how far to a history lesson about am waffling 🙄
So basically his face is a natural clickbait. Looks just like Michael from vsauce
Also he is on like 29 channels
Haha. I wasn't paying attention to the channel name and thought it was Michael.
and binging like babish
He looks like a reverse hair legal eagle
This guy, Michael from Vsauce and Babish are the same person from alternate universes. Geniuses
"Don't Dig Straight Down"
Simon casually dropping Minecraft hints
I laughed pretty hard at that, won't lie
Maybe it's a tip for Sam and Danny as they plan their escape from the Blazement
I drink your milkshake!
Dig up stupid.
@@beagleuk3233 I could totally see his other channels writers leaving hints and advice for Danny and Sam. Danny should write a script about it.
I'm going to tell my geologist friend that Simon said the mantle is filled with caramel rocks.
Delicious molten rock
He also thinks it's not flat.
@@tigercap100 how can it be flat? Where would the dinosaurs live if it was flat?
Haha Simon says taste the mantle
Don't forget the honeycombe. Mmm.. honeycombe.
I was hoping to hear more technical aspects, like how keeping water out of holes led to better understanding of air pressure (vacuum pumps couldn't pull water more than 32 feet up), and how we fight the pressure of the rocks around the holes at these deep depths. Also, isn't there a scientific reason for digging deep into the crust? Seeing the chemistry happening down deep could help understand tectonics and such.
The way you keep water out and sabilize the wellbore is done by filling it up with a drilling fluid that balances out formation perssure. Also there is a technical limit in play. when you drill 12km deep, you have 12km of drillstring below the top connection taking all the weight. So this needs to be strong enoug. Drill pipe in use today in the OG industry do about 350T, and weight about 45,3 kg/m, so you can reach about 7,7km vertically. So for the 12 km mentioned you already need specialized equipment.
I want to know how and why exactly the heat from the mantle doesn’t boil the seawater or at least affect it in some way if the bottom of the ocean is maybe 30 miles away or so from it
@@lirrtrainwreck Rock is a good enough insulator to prevent it. There's a thermal gradient from the molten mantle to the seafloor, so heat is transmitted, but not very much. We make ovens for melting metal that are a few feet thick and insulate 1000 degree interiors from maybe 100 degree exteriors, so insulating several thousand degrees with 30 miles of rock should be no problem.
@@lirrtrainwreck Liquid + Lava = Land
@@lirrtrainwreck it does sometimes. do you know about undersea thermal vents? - sorry just realized this was a 2 year old comment i replied to... :)
While generally accurate there are some points that need clarity. The mantle is SOLID. Not liquid not even sticky liquid like caramel. Don't ever let a geologist hear you say otherwise. (The technical term is rheid). When digging deep, adiabatic melting occurs, this is when you release pressure (because you've dug a whole) which causes the rock to melt. Also I'm pretty sure the kola superdeep is still the deepest we've ever dug there are some oil well that are longer like the one in Russia but are on an angle so are not actually as deep. Also most of the crust is oceanic (basaltic) and only up to 10km thick (0 at the mid ocean ridge). Continental crust (granite effectively) is indeed usually between 30-50km thick but can be up to 90 under the Himalayas! Also its the intense pressure from the weight of overlying rock which makes the inner core solid due to gravity pulling it down. The force of gravity near the centre of the Earth would actually be a lot less than that on the surface. And one finale reminder the mantle is solid otherwise shear waves wouldn't be able to pass through it!
*hole (unless you are talking about the whole hole, I guess...)
in theory...
Thank you, this is much clearer with your explanations.
kola superdeep still is he deepest. here is an article describing the www.drillingcontractor.org/erd-advances-push-limits-on-chayvo-wells-28693
@@Fjallkloka_Aventyr Yep! I agree. Where's the physical proof?
Simon's intro , sounded like he was digging himself into a hole
How shall I get out of this hole?
CUE INTRO
BA DUM DUM TSHHHHHHH
Digging holes is the foundation of a good childhood.
Imagine what your parents were doing when you were outside digging.
@@STaSHZILLA420 pops was doing his version of digging I bet
@@STaSHZILLA420 He was digging holes too, but inside the house.
Da was digging a hole with a stick.
Me getting this YT rec: "WTF is Babish doing talking about holes"?
When you turn on inter-dimensional cable and go to another theme show of binging with babish
Me: “Lets go vsauce is talking about holes”
I thought it was Matt from Dope or nope
I appreciate that you pointed out the peculiarity of "knowing" the inner construction of the planet without ever getting remotely close to it. But then you just blew past that.
Kind of my thoughts as well. I wonder how they factually "Know" what all is down there. Other than just being told back in science class. And not because a bunch of formulas and equations or letters on a chalkboard says what's down there. But how do they "Know"?
I'm not trying to challenge it or say it's incorrect in any way. I'm just curious.
He did mention in another video before about all that being based on Theory. It may have been the borehole video.
I was hoping to see a 3D image of the length of the hole compared to the earth's crust.
"it's not clear why we'd do this?"
near infinite thermal power anyone? no?
aight coal it is.
I really thought that’s where we were going with this! 😟 I’m across not too familiar with thermal power though so no idea if it could even be done...
@@hannahbeanies8855 it is done in Iceland they even have heated streets in their cities.
@@itarry4 oh yes I have heard about heated streets existing before. Which is super neat, but it never occurred to me to question how they do that. Thanks!
@@hannahbeanies8855 they've even got restaurants that use the hot steam directly from a fissure in the rock to cook their food. That place has so much energy it's just a shame there's no way to get it from there to other places that would be safe and cost effective.
@@itarry4 right? I mean, we would need like, these little energy storage, things...🤔😳🤷🏼♂️
So when the Bee Gees sing "How deep is your love ?" well no more than 50KM !
“Don’t dig straight down”
Normal people: really? Seems like the fastest way
Minecraft players: duh 🙄
ayo just stopping by to say we have the same last names haha
"If you want to go to the core, that's your choice. Just don't let out the dinosaurs" -Simon
no one wants to point out how LAZY Simon was re Capitalism vs Communism??
ex:
all sides agree COMMUNISM defeated CAPITALISM pretty much always. (ex: Murica has to pay COMMUNIST CHINA a billion cash PER DAY (!!!)....and that's just in interest payments, ha ha ha!)
(WEIRD we work with our "enemy" instead of getting all the money we need from CAPITALISTS or BANKS, hmmm!)
ex:
in 2020, CAPITALISTS BEGGED SOCIALISTS TO RESCUE CAPITALISM.
(Same as always!)
CAPITALISM makes as much sense as virgin births!
"If we have TWO CEOs making $5 million EACH....that will lower costs FAR more (thanks to this Competition) than the Socialized FDNY, which only has ONE CEO (making $200K a year, hmmm)! And the Capitalists have to spend more on ADVERTISING their product or service...in ONE SECOND...than the Socialized FDNY does in a 100 years!!"
CAPITALISM MAKES NO SENSE OF ANY KIND.
@@professorcranium4792 Don't forget the capitalist banks that went socialist in 2008. Or all of the "Better dead than socialist" Republican hypocrites who had no problem with the $2000 checks that were sent out.
@@johnnemesh5459 We get it, you're too lazy to work. Nobody wants to see political discussions on a video about digging holes.
“How deep is your hole?” - Bee Gees, probably
"I really mean to learn."
Everyone’s asking How Deep Can We Dig but no-one is asking How Deep Should We Dig
I dig it, bro.
Dr. Ian Malcolm approves.
Why dig when you just go to any active volcano. There’s a deep hole right there.
yeah just casually divert the ocean into it
Gamer 1209 that’s how u get an island. The volcano wins.
@@Dewalt-mh1dz yeah, remember Minecraft? Duh.
Correct, a volcano is connected to the mantle, which means theres a hole that goes trough the crust. Since you already seen just how insane lava is, you wouldn't want to dig that deep.
As a kid, my siblings and I decided we would dig to China. We wanted a free holiday and it seemed like a good idea.
We got about a metre down, and it was about a metre in diameter and circular. Unfortunately there was quite a layer of rocks, and something else got our imaginations going the next week, so we never went any deeper, but I think it’s probably still in my parents garden as a testament to how well we can collaborate, and how short our attention spans are 🤣
That's a ❤warming story thank you!
You just need a scrum master
Our sons did the same thing, and the hole is still there. It floods during winter rainy season (Oregon). We’re wondering if the next generation will take up the challenge now.
Really cute. 😂
@@mwolfe3219 My brothers and I did something similar as kids, also in Oregon, but eventually were told to fill it in because it was a trip hazard. =P
Simon: How deep can we dig.
Me: Around 56 blocks😂
I lol'd at the "Don't dig straight down" bit.
until the 1.18 update dropped
@@Calvin704704 Isn't it 1.17?, maybe i'm wrong🙂
@@Mehrunes86 the update is now split into 2, where the cliff and caves (the one that change the depth and height limit) is in the 1.18 planned to release later this year
@@Calvin704704 Thanks👍
"From the widest valley, to the deepest trench, holes define who we are and where we're going."
Me: no more videos, I'm going to sleep.
RUclips: hey, wanna know how deep could we dig?
I ask myself this everytime I argue with my gf.
Nailed it
Beat me to it. Damn!
😂
Remember dude long after you have forgotten the argument, She will remember it! Every one of them...Ever. That is how deep you have dug the hole.
Who goes in the hole?
how did we get a whole 8 mins of digging without this quote - come on Simon ;p
"The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame" :D
Lol, because Simon famously hates LOTR.
Because we cant have dinosaurs and dwarves.
Because Sam doesn't do the fine, vintage *muah* memes for this channel. #FlogDannyForLongerIntros
Watch him on Business Blaze. He is a heretic and not only hates LOTR/The Hobbit but virtually ALL fantasy! Danny has been trying to tempt him over but looks like we may have to knock him out with a concoction of Rotting Turtle, Beard Blaze Oil and Danny's Radiator moonshine, then force him to watch all of LOTR and The Hobbit extended versions back to back until he finally cracks.
#PoundDwarvesIntoSimonTillHeBreaks
Ah, yes: Simon's Bane!
"in the center of the earth is this thing called a mantle, its insane that we know this never never having dug into it."
i have to use this one day.
I’d dig one in an enemies yard so their house turned into a volcano. That would be pretty cool
Try not to have enemies, will you?
evil
Actually I think it would be pretty hot. I would not suspect it to be cold at all.😉
"Old habits die hard" seems like a bit of an oversimplification.
We still "love gold" because it is pretty much the most useful metal we can find in nature! Unless you know of a material that conducts electricity, doesn't corrode and is relatively abundant close to the earth's surface?
Yeah but the majority of gold just becomes jewelry and coins. If it wasn't for normies driving up the price, we could wire our homes with gold... 😤😩😭
@@wfjhDUI These days? Not so sure about the "majority" claim there, what with the last year being the largest tech demand boom... ever...
I'd have to crunch the numbers to be convinced, myself! (personally)
Also, that "doesn't corrode" thing (along with the shininess that comes with it) is the main reason we love it for jewellery!
@@ballsrgrossnugly Oh yeah...no, WAY the majority. One gold ring could make a crap-load of iPhones. Most of the processed gold in the world exists in the form of bars, coins, and jewelry...by far. Electronics commonly uses gold, but it never uses a lot of gold. If you melted them all down, the amount of gold you'd get would be trivial by comparison.
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It SHOULD be used for a much wider variety of electronics...but it's not, because it's too valuable. And that value is grossly overestimated by those who have nothing to do with electronics. Its also why diamonds, something which commercial reproductions are far superior in quality, and they're such a commonplace gem that they should really have little to no value, are still so expensive.
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That's how fiat economics works. Lie about something's value, and tell the lie so often that everyone forgets it's a lie.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 fair enough, but it's a decent portion already, and I'd wager that percentage increases year on year...
Gold is only useful for keeping the river goddesses sweet.
Just a side note, the gravity isn't huge at the center of the earth, the pressure is. You would actually weigh less to none at the center of the earth than you do at the surface.
The force of gravity creates the pressure
@@CowboyCree63 Correct. But if you could somehow go to the exact center of earth, you'd be weightless
@@iowafarmboy you would be weightless only because the pull of gravity would be equal on all sides around you, not because of lack of gravity.
Finally someone agreeing that Germans digging trenches around their spot at the beach is rational!
Is this really a german thing? I mean we always did that on vacation but I just thought that was something that everyone did.
@@therisingphoenixstrikesaga4704 Nah I think everyone does it. But the people on 4chan.org/int constantly told us that is a German thingy...also it triggeres the Brittish for some unknown reason.
@@therisingphoenixstrikesaga4704 think it is. Germans are known for digging and being quite possesive about their beachholes and trenches. Hard not to mention the war, Basil
“I’ve been drill’ holes in the Earth for 30 years. And I have never, NEVER missed a depth I’ve aimed for!" Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis): "Armageddon" (1997).
I worked on rigs for 10 years and I heard this quote about one a week lmao
It's almost like gold is used for things other than currency and just sitting around... like oh idk... technology
Your newer videos hit different, I like it, like you're more relaxed or happier.
Girls at the beach: ow I hope we can see some dolphins
Boys at beach:
If we were actually able to get through the crust, is there any danger of destabilising the planet or something?
No.
To make basements...
DANNYYYYYYY!!!!
this is how the whole "Reign of Fire" dragon problem started. careful what you dig for, it may have been digging for you.
"and it was a borehole."
Yes, highly valuable, almost unobtainable knowledge, perfect. I have now subscribed
The Binging with Babish of the engineering world.
Brothers of the mine rejoice!
(Swing, swing, swing with me!)
Raise your pick and raise your voice!
(Sing, sing, sing with me!)
Down and down into the deep
Who knows what we'll find beneath?
Diamonds, rubies, gold, and more
Hidden in the mountain store
Born underground
Suckled from a teat of stone
Raised in the dark
The safety of our mountain home
Skin made of iron
Steel in our bones
To dig and dig makes us free
Come on, brothers, sing with me!
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, digging a hole
The sunlight will not reach this low
(Deep, deep in the mine)
Never seen the blue moon glow
(Dwarves won't fly so high)
Fill a glass and down some mead
Stuff your bellies at the feast!
Stumble home and fall asleep
Dreaming in our mountain keep
Born underground
Grown inside a rocky womb
The Earth is our cradle
The mountain shall become our tomb
Face us on the battlefield
You will meet your doom
We do not fear what lies beneath
We can never dig too deep
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, digging a hole
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, digging a hole
Born underground
Suckled from a teat of stone
Raised in the dark
The safety of our mountain home
Skin made of iron
Steel in our bones
To dig and dig makes us free
Come on, brothers, sing with me!
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, digging a hole
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, digging a hole
I was waiting for this lol 😂
Ah, a man of culture.
There it is
🤣🤣🤣👍
Is this from the hobbit?
I like digging. I have a lifetime ambition to have an underground base.
"It's crazy that we know this despite never having seen it"
The retort there is that we actually don't. We have a lot of evidence of how physics in general works and we make a lot of predictions based on pressure and composition of our planet based on observations of the crust and the magnetic field gives us some Intel on how the core behaves, but if we actually broke through and found the core actually WAS made of caramel, it would not be the first time science was upended by observation. And no, I'm not anti science at all, I think the fact that science as a principle allows for itself to be upended when observations don't fit predictions is very much a strength of the scientific method.
so it's not turtles all the way down, but caramel?
@@toof987 my guess is the Monsterverse is right, the outer crust is just a ring around another inner crust that has a bunch of giant beasts living on it
Science does get upended by observation, but it's _very_ rare that science gets _very_ upended by something... at least in the last hundred years or so. We're constantly getting better at doing science properly, and we're also constantly getting a better idea of how things work at various scales... and reality is, largely, consistent. We're often able to _prove_ our understanding with predictions, which is the final part of the scientific method, and extrapolating our understanding to areas 'just' out of our reach is pretty reasonable.
If we ever do get a fresh sample of mantle, I think we'll probably a little surprised by the makeup in interesting ways, but it's very unlikely that we'll be very surprised.
@@wraitholme true, kind of. I would avoid saying we prove predictions through observation and that there haven't been major shifts to established theories in the last 100 years. A good example of a counter to that is the Hubble constant which dictates our understanding of how the universe is expanding. It was derived in the 1920's and for a long time got stronger through observation. But then as we made better and better telescopes and new ways to interpret the data we were seeing, things started not lining up so well. There were tweaks to the constant and as I understand it, the way observation still failed to line up with theory is what gave rise to dark matter/dark energy theory. Which, if you believe it, together make up like 90% of the mass/energy mix of the universe. That's a pretty seismic shift on its own, but there's also a growing number of scientists pushing back saying we invented something that groundbreaking just to try to prove why the Hubble constant didn't work as well as we thought it should and instead there is no dark matter or dark energy and we should just be redefining the theory about how the universe interacts at those scales. That field is going to shift pretty dramatically soon, either to entirely new physics theories or via observing the existence of dark matter and energy.
So to your point, you should definitely not view the shifts in science and become distrustful of it. Science is very likely correct about what makes up the core and it's behavior. But don't get too married to any theory, no matter how "proven". It may well end up disappointing you.
@@joehemmann1156 Hypotheses (rather than actual established theory) shift all the time, but I wouldn't call it a seismic shift. The bit of our understanding filled in by the dark matter etc hypothesis wasn't an established understanding that was drastically upset, it was very much the unknown that just had a surprising answer.
Like... if I went digging about in the bottom of my garden, I might find that my fence is in the wrong place. I might find a species of plant that everyone thinks has been extinct for millions of years. I might find an entirely new fossil. What I'm not going to find are literal magical faeries, because those are impossible.
My point is that our understanding of physics at multiple scales is pretty solid, because we use it all the time... from cellphones, to nuclear plants, to satellites that take relativity into account, to 'space age materials'. We arent going to find anything that drastically changes fundamental physics, because our knowledge there has been extensively proven. At most we'll find unexpected things at the edge, but they will be filling in gaps, not changing what we know.
Gonna tell my kids this was Vsauce.
I thought the thumbnail was him
@@jessforfunshow
Me too
This is Vsauce if he hadnt gone insane.
I've been asking this question since I was a toddler. I'm 36 now.
And still no definitive answer...
That's where the dinosaurs live. LOl, really. Love your humor.
400M by hand is absolutely ..... i just don't even have words.
The self referential humor is a great addition to the facts. Very charming, good stuff!
You reckon that superdeep borehole is still as deep as it was when they capped it off, or you think maybe the plastic rocks have filled it in a bit?
I'd hazard a guess that unless the area is extremely seismologically stable and/or the cap is extremely watertight it has probably collapsed to some extent
When I was a younger Geologist, I attended a lecture on just this issue. The answer depends on the depth at which pressures change from hydrostatic to lithostatic...
Here I thought it was from crunchy to creamy
Wish you would finish this explanation.
"Let's turn to the undisputed king of the mines - South Africa" -> zooms into Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Everyone still loves gold because everyone is a pirate at heart. Nothing like a nice pile of gold to bring out your “yaaaaaarrrrrrrr”.
We don't "know" all this about inside our planet - it's all hypothesis.
And thats why we have flatearthers... They all want to know stuff based on visual observation.
Meaning what, exactly? That we don't know that it's hot/molten at the core? That it could be hollow, because we "don't know"?
Can we get one about the rumored space elevator we're allegedly going to get?
Once we can make carbon nanotubes thousands of kilometers long instead of a few centimeters, I'm sure he'll do it.
we lack the material knowledge at this time!
Once built, we shall build statues across the world paying tribute to the first man to fart in said elevator. A gaseous murder suicide, honored for all eternity.
@@jasonwomack4064 It will not be an actual elevator...
@@magburner Exactly. More like a crane in geosynchronous orbit.
I never though in my life I would be entertained by digging/drilling deep holes. This was a treat!
The Woodingdean Water Well is the deepest hand-dug well in the world, at 390 metres (1285 feet) deep. Work on the well started in 1858, and was finished four years later, on March 16, 1862. It is located just outside of Nuffield Hospital in Woodingdean , near Brighton, UK.
The well was originally dug to provide water for a workhouse at the top of Elm Grove and a school for juveniles at Warren Farm. The workhouse was a place people would go if they were poor, couldn’t find work or unfortunately, if children became orphans, they often landed up in the workhouse. In exchange for their food and bed they were expected to work. The well is 390m (1285m) deep and is little more than a meter wide. In true Dickensian style, the well was hand dug by members of the local workhouse and was apparently carried out for 24 hours with candlelight as the only source of light. They had to scale up and down the shaft in complete darkness on a series of rickety ladders. Surprisingly, only one of the worker died in the process.
Excavation work at the well continued for several more years, until one day at a change of shifts, something unusual was noticed. One of the workers realized that the earth he was standing on, at the bottom of the shaft, was beginning to heave upwards like a massive piston. All the workers scrambled upward as fast as they could go, to the Winchman’s platforms to get out of the way of the water that finally struck. The water rose to 400 feet in the first hour, with the men nearly escaping death
Nearly escaping death, or narrowly? 😬
Holey cow! Thanks for drilling down to the core of the subject.
I'm smelling what you're stepping in Trysta.
But it might be a boring subject.
@@delurkor a rock solid one though
@@Trystyna Yes, crystalized my thoughts. 😄
@@delurkor such a gem.
'The world needs ditch diggers, too' - Judge Smails
I've often thought about becoming a golf club...
I love the whimsical points in these you totally make the videos spring-step!
I suddenly heard the BeeGees singing (to the tune if "How Deep Is Your Love") "How deep can we dig? How deep can we dig? I really want to know!"
I asked this question when I was four. I came to the conclusion that the answer was entirely dependent upon just how long it took my father to catch me...🤯😠
Just sounds like a whole lot of trouble than... fun fact: The most gold is used in electronic devices for off course conductivity.
Mostly correct. It's for lack of corrosion. Gold is more corrosion resistant than most other metals - so we use it to protect the copper contacts because copper oxydizes relatively fast. You don't want to use all gold, because it is actually LESS conductive than copper. It's a compromise, like all the other metals in electronics.... ;-)
Why not Silver? It tarnishes but that just the outside of it.
@@dannydaw59 With that argument you could keep the copper as it is. No, "tarnish" means it oxydizes and oxides usually do not conduct electricity.
Silver is also much more prone to damage by scratching than copper or gold.
Silver is used inside chips for bonding wires - it is a great conductor and neither of those problems exist in a sealed plastic case.
@@dannydaw59 The "tarnish" is the same thing as rust on iron, they are both oxidation.
@@KonradTheWizzard The outside layer tarnishes. The electricity can go through the middle of the silver traces.
This dude has so many channels, that productivity is wild
How deep? Until we hit bottom.
Kinda wish you dug in to geothermal aspects here. As it's easily the best renewable source on planet with no intermittent power issues, massive battery infrastructure or constant maintenance required. There's absolutely a great reason to dig super deep holes if we can do it affordably.
There is no known scientific means by which we can extract electrical energy from this geothermal heat. If you'd like to come up with a new idea, I encourage you to go for it. But, as far as our current understanding: there's no way to make that thermal energy do mechanical work without putting in far more energy than we'd get back out.
@@realdizzle87 Incorrect. Geothermal energy can be transformed into electricity and is being done so currently around the globe, see wikipedia article 'geothermal power' for example.
It's called steam. You dig a hole that's deep enough that it gets hot down below, you pour water into said hole tha then transforms into steam, and you run that through a turbine to generate electricity.
It's astounding to me that someone can come in here and make a completely, 100 % false statement such as "But, as far as our current understanding: there's no way to make that thermal energy do mechanical work without putting in far more energy than we'd get back out", while clearly not even having done the base level work of doing a google search on the subject.
@@SatanicBunny666 actually he's inadvertently correct. There is a limit on how far you can pipe steam, it's a lot less than 30 kilometers...
@@daledelatte9607 which is exactly why they build the turbines on top of/ very near where the hole is... so they DONT have to pipe steam very far. And still wrong. The average number i was finding is 3 to 4 units of energy produced by a geothermal plant for a unit used by the geothermal plant.
After nearly 50 years working in various oilfields around the world I would be willing to bet that 15k you're talking about at Sakhalin is NOT straight down, they would be deviated wells
2:01 - «South Africa» *zooms in on Central Africa*
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a tunnel is just a tunnel- Sigmund Freud
I believe the Diet Kola superhole wasnt as deep.
It's just as deep and with all the great flavour of the original Kola (according to blind taste tests)
How do physicists know so much about the core of the earth when we’ve only dug 4km deep? Serious question.
Earthquakes
Same concept as bats. The vibrations from earthquakes let them "see" into the earth the way bats can echo-locate in the dark.
My cousin and I dug a hole into a hillside it went about 15 feet down at a 30 degree angle it was about 3 feet wide in diameter we hollowed out a chamber and we'd camp in it and stash stuff. We had zero idea about engineering or structural integrity no shoring up or anything! We played in it for a whole summer one day we went out there and it all collapsed we both realized how close to death we came.
*all moles right now*
“UNFFFFFFFFF”
Imagine how big a hole you would have to dig to bury all that dirt.
You'd need a lot of space...and time
Dad: dig
Son: how far down
Dad: till the rocks turn to plastic
Son: tf
Dad: goes to play some 2042 in peace
Can confirm digging deep holes is tough, but worth it. Haven't been caught yet.
Just wait until Simon gets through the gooey caramel and discovers the Tootsie Roll center.
I'm digging a hole
Diggy, diggy hole
This reference makes my day. Many thanks ^_^
Dang Simon, you're right again. I 100% wanna know low we can go...
I want whatever Simon had before making this video....Loved it! 😂😂
A Lava Lamp, aptly named, demonstrates the mantle dynamics
Sounds like another "space race" for one of Elon's companies to dig in to.
Enjoyed the video! Now I’m going to enjoy the inevitable comments correcting whatever you got wrong. 😁
I think digging a hole completely through Earth and jumping in would be somewhat fun as long as you don’t hit the sides of the hole, it’d just be a never ending free fall almost like you’re orbiting earth
Crazy to think that the inner core is pretty much still just a theory with alot of evidence to back it up but ultimately still just a theory
We can dig until we awake the Balrog.
I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole, diggy diggy hole.
4:58 Dinostaurs are my favourite kind of staminal.
You've completely blown your chance for a fantastic candy-themed caramel tie in product!
What would happen if we managed to dig all the way through the crust? Would we just have a giant pit with lava at the bottom?
So we’re just going to gloss over the whole “dinosaurs living in the Earth’s core”?
And what about the Lizard People who live in the Earth's crust and control everything on the planet. 😉
@@skyhawk_4526 the Silurians don’t like us mucking about
@@stantheman9072 unless you’re a hot Victorian England Lady and her Potato shaped friend. Then, you’re tolerated.
A potentially fatal mistake
Don’t forget crab people, taste like crab look like people 🦀
"It is just drilling a hole......so whatever!". That cracked me up.
How deep can we dig? 30 - 50 km - Just gave you 9 minutes back
Would it erupt at some point? Like would you reach a point where pressure would turn you into a volcano? If not before but when you punctured into the mantle?
Id like to see an episode about the treasure hunt on OAK ISLAND in Nova Scotia
If you lined up all of Simmons videos in the end it would still go twice as deep as the deepest bore hole.
If someone breached to the mantle, would it trigger a volcano as the pressure if the surrounding crust squeezed the molten material?
No half baked pop-science video is complete without a good dose of red scare and brazen Russia phobia.
seriously. i've been laughing my ass off that he thinks the reason russia dug a slightly deeper hole than they did as the soviet union, is somehow because of capitialism and not at all the passage of time