What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?

There's a documentary about that, in the form of the game 'Motherload'

https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload

	▲	rationalist 4 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 3 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 2 hours 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 a complete coincidence all around? (I asked AI, and it says coincidence, since BP stopped drilling once they hit oil, and the russians stopped drilling once they hit some melty rock.)

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zokier 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/