How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

[@hunkofthehill2332]

I can't believe you didn't send Amy to the deepest hole on earth

[@Nerfyboy800]

Standards are dropping around here, smh my head 😒

[@sirBrouwer]

@@Nerfyboy800 the are not dropping that is the problem.

[@2Fast4Mellow]

I'm surprised they didn't even lower he into the hole to verify it's depth. Some scientists work at HAI...

[@jur4x]

If it wasn't for current political situation, Tom Scott would be visiting that place already

[@yemmohater2796]

It would've been too expensive to fly her all the way to your mother

[@kkrg413]

There's old russian joke about it: In Russia, we have two deepest holes in the world! One in Kola, and another in the budget

[@MatheusC1729]

In the Soviet Union, the hole drills YOU!!

[@bipolarminddroppings]

​@MatheusC1729 one day that joke format will get old. But not today.

[@brentsnocomgaming7813]

And yet the hole in the US budget is deeper :)

[@deniss2786]

I'm Russian and never heard the joke. It's especially funny coz Russian state debt is very small.

[@kkrg413]

@@deniss2786 я, честно говоря, не уверена как именно анекдот звучит, это лишь примерный перевод того что помню, а по поводу бюджета... дело не долге, а в карманах где этот бюджет оседает

[@Brighton24601]

I think it’s obvious that the real reason the bore hole curves at the bottom is that it makes it look like an upside-down sickle. The soviets were carving their logo into the earth!

[@betterchapter]

Russians: Drill for 24 years The Earth: "Is it in yet?"

[@GoldClav]

@@betterchapter underrated comment 😂😂😂

[@nokia-gm8gv]

xdd

[@michael-michaelmotorcycle]

Ayo

[@Xiiki]

Hey, I’m sure their depth is much below average

[@PJWestfield]

This won the internet for the day! Congratulations!

[@NthMetalValorium]

there's a universe where the soviet union didn't collapse, they just changed their priorities and the whole country's focus is digging the hole. You could leave if you want, but if you stay, every thing you do would be to support the hole.

[@pepo_pipi]

at one point, the temperature would be so high melting any drill they send, so even if they didn't collapse earth-chan won't let them continue

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

@@pepo_pipi That would have to be a substantially more elevated temperature than was encountered by the Kola team. The temp at the bottom of the existing hole was measured at four hundred and fifty some kelvins. It's trivial to make a drillbit with a melting point eight times that, and that's without messing around with exotic materials.

[@MadHatter42]

From seizing the means of production to seizing the means of producing the deepest hole any y’all motherfuckers ever seen!

[@AGryphonTamer]

@@jonadabtheunsightly On top of exotic materials they could also use active cooling. Russia was the first nation to have active cooled rocket nozzles IIRC. Now the temperature at the center of the Earth is expected to get up 6000c. Rocket engines get up to about 3400c in the combustion chamber. So just active cooling won't work, but rocket engines also have to be mass efficient. Mass doesn't matter here. Tantalum Hafnium Carbide Alloy melts at 3990c, actively cool that and get maybe another 2000c. But that would take the entire funding of an economically healthy Russia.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

@@AGryphonTamer I didn't mean to imply that I thought it would be possible to drill all the way to the center of the earth. But I do think it would be possible, with adequate dedication and funding, to drill significantly deeper than has yet been done. Though I'm not aware of any really compelling reason to do so. There are other research projects that would be cheaper and seem more likely to yield a larger amount of useful information.

[@Rubrickety]

To be fair to the American Miscellaneous Society, during that same period they did open an ice rink, purchase 900 tire irons, sing "Jailhouse Rock" backwards, push a wheelbarrow up Pikes Peak, adopt a poodle, play four games of Euchre, build a replica of the Washington Monument out of matchsticks, donate 43 Stetson hats to Goodwill, and make a bacon sandwich.

[@themenacingpenguin.7152]

Damn they really are miscellaneous.

[@raznaak]

I'm pretty sure you're joking, but I'm not going to look it up just for the chance you aren't, as I like that story and don't want to let it die in my mind.

[@EebstertheGreat]

Nobody really knows what AMSOC did, because it wasn't a real organization. The "rules" were that anyone who applied for membership automatically became a founding member and that whenever there were two members in the same place, they could take any initiative in AMSOC's name without consulting other members. According to John Knauss, "Two of AMSOC’s earliest committees were one to inform animals of their proper taxonomic classification and another seeking to establish groups around the world prepared to greet visitors from outer space." The organization only became "real" briefly in the late 50s and early 60s for the first phase of Project Moho. One thing the group is still remembered for is the Albatross award, which was an actual taxidermied albatross that they gave to people for various reasons. The first group to receive the award was the three people who came up with the idea.

[@Rubrickety]

@@EebstertheGreatWow, I wasn’t as far off as I’d thought! Thanks 😊

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

​@@themenacingpenguin.7152well they weren't called the Cornwall Liars Confederation now, were they?

[@AaronGeo]

That picture you may have seen of the Kola Superdeep borehole with the gigantic bottomless hole in the ground isn't actually it, that picture is of the Mirny diamond mine in Russia

[@SamOGr]

see you in 2025 for the corrections video

[@MiguelMC-Yt]

Yeah, you'll be part of a video, YAY ✨🎉🎊🏆 👏🙌

[@dongiovanni4331]

Doesn't the Kola hole look like a capped oil well?

[@Canadian_Teemo]

@SamOGR @MiguelMC-Yt did the video use an image of the Mimy diamond mine? I don't remember it being used in the video, when was it used?

[@crazeelazee7524]

@@SamOGr I'm pretty sure he means all the viral posts that pop up every so often, because the Mirny mine doesn't appear in this video.

[@mateuszmazur6222]

Digging a hole, diggy diggy hole, I am a Dwarf and I’m digging a hole, diggy diggy hole

[@kibble-net]

Was fully expecting this to be the song at the beginning

[@RaccoonHenry]

I came here for this.

[@nyvkroft6530]

Yogscast mentioned 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@klh_io]

@@nyvkroft6530 or Wind Rose. I honestly didn't know this song came from Yogscast for a couple of years

[@wgrandbois]

I feel like HAI couldn't quite make a video on NYC sea lion distribution so they had to slip it into this video.

[@wmeuse2375]

They made a video on bricks so, ya that is par for the course.

[@wgrandbois]

They threatened the video on bricks for a long time before they actually made it.

[@Jules.D]

6:33 I'm sure some of the onion journalists would be thrilled to know the US is planning on drilling that one new money hole that could fit up to $1 billion 💵

[@bills6693]

Why are you even discussing the money hole! What about the energy hole, or the soldier hole?

[@yodaman8015]

if congress remebered how to pass a bill, that hole would be stopped in no time

[@indominusrex1652]

@@bills6693 you forgot the square hole

[@CaptainBobSim]

My grandpa worked two jobs just so he could have enough money to put in the money hole!

[@yodaman8015]

@@CaptainBobSim and then the man with 35000 jobs took his, that bastard.

[@Superwazop]

With the worlds longest shovel

[@GoldClav]

And world’s biggest shovel

[@tylerwebb2495]

2:59 “Can grind it out for about 4 hours before needing to be pulled out of the hole” I see

[@leonkernan]

That's only about 3 hours 59 minutes and 50 seconds longer than....

[@jackknighttheoriginal1956]

Well if it lasted longer than 4 hours then they needed to take it to a doctor

[@BlankPictures-1]

This might be the first time in HAI history that Sam has been onscreen.

[@Tevruden]

You could spend $1 billion on a hole; or 44x that on a social media website. I'm going for hole.

[@jamesbizs]

And it’s a damn good thing he spent that money. The hole got us nothing . But having one side control all of social media? Where fb just got caught demoting anything pro Trump?

[@12pentaborane]

The thing is Twitter didn't have to be a unprofitable, drilling a hole to nowhere is just a hole to nowhere

[@greedyProphet]

Topologically speaking, it's not a hole.

[@kentslocum]

Is it technically considered a depression? 🤔

[@asheep7797]

It's a 2D hole, because they capped it off, and a hollow spot in a sphere is a 2D hole.

[@Makskuch832]

Huh really

[@Goatcha_M]

The best coverage of the KSDBH I have seen, can't remember anyone else covering the twisty snakey stuff, or the plasticity of the rock.

[@reddcube]

I hate when people say like $1 billion is wasted. The money actually goes to engineers, researchers, manufacturers, and operators. It does not disappears into the hole.

[@williamtheconqueror2719]

No, it is wasted. Nothing of value is going to be gained.

[@ManWhoIsSus]

@@williamtheconqueror2719 womp womp

[@johngammon6450]

And most importantly, it fulfills the innate need of all working on it to dig a hole.

[@likebot.]

When the hole is widened enough then people will stop falling out of windows.

[@somethinglikethat2176]

​​@@williamtheconqueror2719 knowledge is gained. Not only that but overcoming the challenges can often lead to unexpected benefits, eg. Solving a problem with the Hubble Space Telescope directly lead to improved medical imaging techniques with resulted in more accurate cancer diagnosis.

[@safebox36]

2:10 Minor correction, but the AMS dissolved itself in 1964 according to the MBLWHOI Library. It's unclear how much they officially contributed to the project as their initial pitch was rejected prior to 1958, and the work was credited to the National Academy of Sciences after a follow-up pitch was accepted and carried out.

[@growingmelancholy8374]

wrong

[@Canadian_Teemo]

@@growingmelancholy8374 Which part is wrong? Because, it does look like the society dissolved itself in 1964. And it does look like Project Mohole was credited to National Academy of Sciences for the follow-up projects. Edit: To clarify, yes, the initial proposal was from AMS, but it got rejected and the resubmitted by NAS.

[@safebox36]

@@growingmelancholy8374 this isn't even that hard to fact check...searching "American Miscellaneous Society 1966" yields no results But searching "American Miscellaneous Society 1964" gives several articles relating to their dissolution and references the proposed hole plan that was rejected

[@olivergro7105]

​@@growingmelancholy8374"wrong" Source: trust me bro

[@y33t23]

Imagine being on the literal Miscellaneous Society 💀

[@frigginjerk]

Maybe they could do a meet-and-greet with the Oddfellows society.

[@Schindlabua]

"so what do you work" - "Uh yeah I lead the et cetera department at the miscellaneous society. we research various things"

[@Quwertyn007]

1:49 I can't believe that name ISN'T a joke 😭

[@sherizaahd]

Your soup looked like "noodles" in mountain dew.

[@cjc363636]

You know, some college kid on TikTok would probably eat that.

[@TylerLinner]

Wait until you see what Mountain Dew looks like

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

The Sea Lion pool at the Queens Zoo is 7.5 miles from the Bronx Zoo Sea Lion pool. I clocked it. All 5 boroughs have their own city zoos and you can draw a line of the same distance connecting all 5 from Queens to Staten Island. It doesn't continue the same direction though. It's about a mile shy of forming an equilateral triangle with the Central Park zoo and the Bronx Zoo and forms an isosceles triangle instead.

[@valdonchev7296]

1984: "You can't just make people spend all their resources on digging holes!" Scientists: "Ha ha, drill bit go brrrt."

[@FG-418]

0:15 WAIT! Are you telling me that Sam from HAI is ALSO Sam from Jet Lag AND Sam from Wendover. No waaaaaaay!

[@Halozocker104]

Yes. Not gonna drop his surname but all his channels are found if you look up sam wendover or sam hai, itll show his wikipedia article 👍🏻

[@Halozocker104]

Also Hai uploaded a video 2 years ago called "Jetlag the game, a new channel by HAI"

[@valentinaaugustina]

6:08 skill issue i never have bigger priorities than Hole

[@jylam_]

Your hot soup was so very American that as a European I would never had guessed that was soup.

[@samuelspace101]

Looked more like noodles in Mountain Dew. But seriously it’s actually a great soup you should try it.

[@SithLizard24]

@@samuelspace101it’s Cambells’s chicken noodle soup, it isn’t just an American classic (155 years old) but it won the bronze medal for product excellence at the Paris Expo of 1900 and is so iconic that famous painter Andy Warhol made a painting about it.

[@samuelspace101]

@@SithLizard24 I was joking, I know what it is. It’s actually really good, anybody who hasn’t tried should definitely try it before judging it.

[@SithLizard24]

@@samuelspace101 oh no worries. I wasn’t complaining, just giving some maybe unknown info about Cambell’s :)

[@spakwi]

I just realized that Half as Interesting and Jet Lag have the same Sam 😭😭

[@Fishrudder]

And wendover!

[@warmike]

Jet Lag Season 0 (where some of the footage in this video came from) is actually called Half as Interesting's Crime Spree.

[@harveycreekin]

The "Live action animation" is game changing! 😂

I appreciate the tiny video effect when the one billion dollars text was sinking in the water. Not only it went down, it splashed as it was going down! Good job, animator!

[@GoldClav]

Why didn’t your corespondent Amy measure the longest hole for confirmation?

[@KelpTheGreat]

7:00 Okay, but WHY are they digging a new hole? For what purpose is it being drilled?

[@Marconius6]

Science*

[@leopardxprint24]

@@Marconius6wait, what’s that by the astrerik? noooo

[@dashvash5440]

It's uncharted territory. Assumably there's lots to learn, verify, update earth science, suprises, demons, hollow? etc. Probably nothing super specific and mostly exploration, which can be used to fine tune future exploration goals. Since it's got funding there's likely a proposal out there.

[@Steven_Edwards]

It's called exploration. You know, learning...

[@kentslocum]

Scientists want measurements and samples of the Earth's Mantle. The Kola Superdeep Borehole never made it to the mantle. Hence a new project, which plans on actually reaching the mantle by drilling through a shallower bit of the Earth's crust. 😊

[@YHK_YT]

0:39 you can tell he went into the hole here because his mic’s volume is lower

[@jamesallen1563]

“Should the government stop throwing money in a giant hole?”

[@johannvonbabylon]

Congrats, Sam. Your joke about JKR is the first ever time I laughed out loud at an HAI vid

[@timg2727]

The really interesting thing to me is that when you compare the depth to NYC, it honestly doesn't seem that deep at all. We've barely made a pinprick in the earth.

[@Koolkole27]

I just ordered the paperback book I am excited to get it this is the kind of sponsorships that I love channels to do not game ads and such but useful stuff like this!

[@objective_psychology]

2:36 There is no way this is scaled right. The German one should be over 20 times the depth of the Empire State Building and 50 times the depth of the American hole.

[@uss_04]

The children yearn for the mines

[@prettypic444]

The next biggest hole will be when Sam is forced to rely on Deutsche Bahn in the next tag across Europe

[@safebox36]

I look forward to the interns' Christmas album featuring songs about Sam doing other everyday activities.

[@janieceng2153]

the song is from crime spree the nebula exclusive spin off, they have really funny songs and it’s so sad they don’t do them anymore in jet lag

[@georginabensley9453]

@@janieceng2153 Well, there's always Adam's little songs....

[@Kastor774]

This video is (about) boring

[@ferry2869]

get out!

[@baksatibi]

But only one half of it, because the other is half as interesting.

[@katewalling1737]

If you don’t like history then cool but keep it to yourself buddy

[@RubberBandyAndy]

Oh wow, a pun. That’s great, I dig it.

[@MartynasNegreckis]

@@katewalling1737 The joke is that the process of making a hole in something is named "boring"

[@Juan-qv5nc]

Thanks for the quality scientific demonstrations with journalistic rigour at 4:09 and 5:56

[@davidmcgill1000]

7:00 Oh I saw an article from The Onion about that.

[@dylanwho]

The greatest Onion clip maybe ever. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ-7XndqoNCDhbM

[@RustyorBroken]

The tool that you used for your two demonstrations is not a drill bit. Rather, it's a driver bit. It's a little hard to tell but it appears to be a Phillips bit

[@WillBelc-Powell]

Love this video! The layout is fun and easy to understand 👍

[@MegaEmmanuel09]

The closest we've gotten to a Sam face reveal. And I appreciate the attempt to drill a hole in hot soup

[@austinj9]

~besides the channel where he is constantly on screen~ /s

[@MegaEmmanuel09]

@@austinj9 or rather, an "HAI" face reveal, lol

[@warmike]

ever heard of jet lag the game?

[@MegaEmmanuel09]

@@warmike Not until the first reply, lol. I went to go and check right after

[@mrhankey20]

JKR catching strays

[@TheOneAndOnlySatan]

Yeah lets not drill in my ceiling anymore

[@ottobihrer732]

For 1 Billion Dollar, we could save half the Amazon Jungle from being clear cut and turned into another arid desert.

[@sorryitsmoops]

Fun fact, there's actually life down there. Kurzgesagt just did a great video on it.

[@Archi_Teck]

2:39 there must be a problem with the scale here, right?

[@iizvullok]

yes

[@kpzdme]

The moment I saw the video title I hoped there will be a Jet Lag reference to New Zealand and I wasn't disappointed

[@warmike]

I think this is actually a Crime Spree reference

[@flyingpanhandle]

Need a new video, you didn't use a drill bit at 06:00 to try and drill into hot soup. Invalid experiment.

[@schellwalabyen4656]

Sam should do a video on the german Hole, that would be truly Half as Interesting.

[@witheryt_YK]

hole.

[@GoldClav]

Big.

[@gvfc]

What do you mean Sam from HAI is also Sam from Jet Lag.

[@FZs1]

It's probably stock footage of Jet Lag Sam digging a hole while HAI Sam talks about his own hole-digging experience.

[@HarshitRaj-i5f]

If there is a hole there is a way

[@Yezpahr]

Instead of pumping water down like they do with Geothermal powerplants, pump cookie dough down an uninterrupted pipe and siphon baked cookies out the other end.... A true Dr. Evil plan.

[@kristianaaberg7882]

Missed a Diggy Diggy Hole reference opportunity

[@Kasperbjerby]

Could we not use the free heat down there as energy? Especially if the hole is dug in the ocean, where we also have free endless water? Heat + water = steam, steam = energy Free energy?

[@Nethershaw]

I went to 80,000 hours. I asked them to help me -- because I'm autistic, clinically depressed, and trying to dig myself out of the aftermath of a decade of trauma -- find a new career. They said I didn't need their advice. I could just read their free resources. I don't know what would be good for me; I don't know how to know; but I'm sure having more heaps of information is better.

[@moonlighthudak]

Give a shovel. I will beat the record

[@hublanderuk]

I was waiting for the Bernard Cribbins song The hole in the Ground. The lyrics would have been perfect for this. There I was A-digging this hole A hole in the ground So big and sort of round.

[@johannesgutsmiedl366]

Somewhat missing info: China is currently drilling two seperate 10 km+ holes, though they are not going for the depth record just yet, and also has launched a drilling ship capable of going up to 11 km below the ocean floor last year. So they might actually beat that US/Japan/EU collaboration project to the mantle.

[@DirtdigginDumbass]

Not likely 😂

[@EpicPizzaz103]

“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.” -some cast, probably.

[@kevinferrell8237]

HAI in 2021: Bricks! HAI in 2024: The Cold War! HAI in 2027: Dry ice…?

[@Fireheart318]

Idea: What if they used a laser to vaporize the rock instead of using a physical drill bit?

[@thewhitewolf58]

The interesting thing is that even though the earth seems so deep, in reality we are sitting on a thin layer of crush that sits on a large ocean of lava. Science is more creative than scifi.

[@Billionth_Kevin]

Scifi replaced that large ocean of lava with a tropical jungle full of dinosaurs for some reason, so sorry creativity is always more creative than science, because no matter how wacky science can get, creativity can always throw more wacky on the pile

[@samuelspace101]

The mantle isn’t really “lava” it’s more like extremely dense hot rock with a high metal saturation, yea so it isn’t lava at all (surprise surprise school didn’t tell you the full truth), if you go deep enough to the lower mantle you will find molten rock but alot deeper in the mantle, you can also find a whole ton of molten basalt “lakes” because basalt has a low melting temperature compared to other rocks, and a low density they float up over time feeding into volcanos, there are also steam pockets.

[@Nooticus]

Throwback time! As an autistic kid, this hole was one of my special interests when i was like 12/13 or something, though i never found a paper like the one you showed in this

[@TheMasterStarr]

Sam, you're not fooling anyone: that soup was cold

[@sciencenerd7639]

I know what I'm doing if I ever visit New York. I'm doing the full sea lion tour.

[@laggypirates]

Damn this video had a big budget. A drill, a can of soup, some water in a cup...

[@penitent2401]

fun fact, if you stack $1bil in a single stack of $100 notes, it would be 1.1km high. So after drilling that new 7km hole they can fit another $6bil into it.

[@dallasdrift]

It’s like when you start a world on Minecraft, America was focused on getting the elytra and the soviets were mining to the bottom of the map

[@theveryaveragegamer9865]

NO, the song for digging a hole is clearly diggy diggy hole. "I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole!"

[@wiizzpl4718]

-Comrade, we have money, what should we spend it on? We could buy food, or make healthc -Big hole.

[@alexanderhorner]

I visited germanys hole on a school field trip. Was pretty cool to see. "flop hole" doesnt do it justice haha

[@DahlbAZ]

I need to know which intern had the discovery that New York has evenly spaced sea lions

[@jypsridic]

Shoutout to all my homies who are also irrationally irritated by the screwdriver being referred to as a drill bit.

[@davideverling753]

It is a drill bit though… A screw driver would surely have a handle

[@jypsridic]

@@davideverling753 no a drill bit would be a device for making holes in things, what is in the video is a device for screwing screws into things. The device holding the bits does not decide whether it is a drill or a screwdriver, it is both depending on which bit is in it.

[@jasonhatt4295]

Just keep digging just keep digging just keep digging digging digging

[@F-UppetsOfficial]

There's this indie horror game called Descending that's inspired by this, I just love stories about going deep into the Earth and the tech behind it.

[@tharii314]

0:12 අහස උසට නැඟ ගියාට නෑ නෙ අහසෙ රැ⁣ඳෙන්නේ අහසෙ මාළිගා හැදුවත් අපි පොළොවේ සිටින්නේ -Gunadāsa Kapugé

[@montgomeryfitzpatrick473]

You say the US failed at 184 m but we had dug a gas well between 1972 and 74 that went 30,000 ft deep

[@GreakFTW]

Imagine the possibilities if we were able to extract basically free stable and infinitely scaleable energy anywhere on earth...

[@GURken]

Russians also made a horror movie "The Superdeep (2020)" about a monster coming from this hole.

[@aaronweaver4553]

Didn’t Sam make a video about this a long time ago? ….*checks*…. Nope, that was Real Life Lore.

[@HU1212ICAN3]

Man the fact you didn't make a joke in the intro about having literally made a movie about digging holes....called Holes. 🤣

[@aiforculture]

This was one of your very best 🎉

[@OriginalPiMan]

If you want to study the mantle, you dig a deep hole somewhere the crust is thinner. But if you want to beat the Russian record, you pick wherever the crust is thickest and dig there. Might help get an extra km or two down.

[@rafeverao4105]

"Ugh! Of course! The answer, like with so many questions, is the cold war!" - something I am going to quote more often

[@williamstearns7490]

While not a bargain, 1 billion to drill through the crust is cheap considering drilling an offshore oil/gas well can be in the billions, with one infamous dry-hole costing 6 billion.

[@LifeEnglish]

many geological discoveries were made due to the dig. and the extracted cores are available to researchers.

[@ryanjohnson4565]

That’s hilarious that the pipes broke. I don’t even know why

[@WanderingExistence]

That's a hole lot of digging.

[@martinsportfoto2423]

They of course stopped drilling because they were afraid of disturbing a Balrog :)

[@McPilch]

Why don't we just make the hole, say, 100 metres wide. Employ a massive workforce and excavators, tiered pass-the-parcel machines to carry the excavated rocks n stuff out, elevators for the workers, etc. Just print extra money to be used for an obviously nonsensical-costing endeavour. Who cares if it takes many generations. I dunno, it's just so sad how humanity doesn't undertake centuries-long projects any longer.

[@masslan3325]

diggy diggy hole

[@thepack3540]

Im a dwarf and im digging a hole

[@xirfan]

Godzilla blew a hole through the crust in about 5 minutes.

[@dodaexploda]

See you in the yearly corrections video where you say "that you showed a drill bit when you really showed a phillips bit."

[@matthewshields]

You really dug deep with this video.