| ▲ | Holes(xkcd.com) |
| 179 points by caminanteblanco 6 hours ago | 29 comments |
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| ▲ | dvh 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Hover text is "If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do." |
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| ▲ | letmevoteplease 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The story of the hand-dug well:
https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/utilities/woodin... |
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| ▲ | WithinReason 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Lake Baikal sediment layer almost as deep as the Mariana Trench: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydr... [...] and below this lies some 7 km (4.3 mi) of sediment, placing the rift floor some 8–11 km (5.0–6.8 mi) below the surface, the deepest continental rift on Earth. |
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| ▲ | cbarrick 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Explain xkcd has links to the Wikipedia articles for each hole. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3266:_Holes |
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| ▲ | ks2048 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Site down? The Wikipedia page on borehole doesn’t mention Deep Water Horizon at all. | | |
| ▲ | ks2048 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | And Wikipedia says this one is over 12,000m deep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shaheen_Oil_Field | | |
| ▲ | aw1621107 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The >12km number is length, not depth: > However, in May 2008, a new record for borehole length was established by the extended-reach drilling (ERD) well BD-04A, in the Al Shaheen oil field. It was drilled to 12,289 m (40,318 ft), with a record horizontal reach of 10,902 m (35,768 ft) in only 36 days. |
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| ▲ | AviationAtom 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Y'all done hugged it to death | | |
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| ▲ | halamadrid 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What are all those oops for? |
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| ▲ | Avicebron 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I forget how cool Lake Baikal is until it shows up randomly and I'm reminded to go look it up again. |
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| ▲ | neilv 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of? |
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| ▲ | rolfus 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There's a documentary about that, in the form of the game 'Motherload' https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload | | |
| ▲ | rationalist 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I played that game way back when - I highly recommend it. Edit: thanks, that's an(other) hour of my life I'll never get back :-) |
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| ▲ | tialaramex 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Nothing of great interest. That's a tiny scratch in the surface of the planet, less than 1% of the radius. On the other hand although we lack the technology you'd need to destroy the damp rock where we live, we only live on some dry-ish outside surface parts of the rock, and we could trash that part and drive ourselves extinct. "Oops" | | |
| ▲ | geor9e 44 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They were asking why the two deepest holes, despite being nowhere near each other, dug decades apart, are 99.3% of 12km and 99.5% of 12km respectively. Was BP symbolically honoring the russian scientists? Does the earth have an extremely uniform material property that happens to be at a very round number of km? Just an insane coincidence all around? |
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| ▲ | zokier 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/ |
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| ▲ | lambdaone 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying. |
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| ▲ | jadbox 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Did you not scroll over to see the even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole? | | |
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| ▲ | underlipton 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You cannot convince me that something ridiculous wasn't covered up wrt Deepwater Horizon. |
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