This Is Why China Is Drilling One of the World’s Deepest Holes

[@Ssyphoned]

Someone should tell them they don’t need to dig a hole to China if they’re already in China.

[@Goz86]

Lol, that's a good one 😂😂

[@dublkrossr2059]

Lol no doubt

[@Kevin-p2g4g]

😂😂😂

[@magnetospin]

Actually, if you dig a hole in China, it will come out in South America.

[@JUSTME-mb6lg]

What did they find. . . Xi JINPOO

[@omirrrr]

Men have always been fascinated with shafts in deep holes

[@Michael9-23-15]

Definitely 😁

[@sueparras6028]

😂😂😂✌🇨🇦🤣🤣

[@goettling]

Hmmm, let me get my head out of the gutter.

[@Wozniak_15]

😂😂

[@ziziroberts8041]

😂😂😂

[@EKA201-j7f]

The hole in Russia was very hot, as you mentioned. It is also interesting to get the recording of what they heard there. It sounded like people in pain, of course, it is probably caused by the tensions and flows of the rock. But it sounded like . . . Hell. And the darned bits were melting.

[@OneHobbit]

I just put down the same comment! Sounded like hell brother. I think it was thoughty2 mentioning the hole

[@daltongalloway]

Y’all realize that those sounds of hell were fake right? They never attempted to put a microphone down the borehole in Russia because the microphone would have melted 😂

[@OneHobbit]

Folklore mate 😂folklore just delete your comment and let them find out themselves 😂😂😂

[@LordNecron]

Liberate.....me......

[@xxdesertstorm]

@@OneHobbit looks like you should

[@camodudeA51]

A shortcut to ship goods to Walmart...Genius...🙃

[@rd5767]

So they can destroy the planet

[@Imgustavd]

You probably hear this alot, but you need to start adding Meters and Celcius to your videos, like just put em inside brackets () , awesome videos, keep it up!

[@adrianocs4]

We need more football field per square Eagles measures.

[@mickatlas3272]

As a Diller of Long hole over 800 metres for core sampling I can only image the pressure & torque placed on the Drill String & going so deep as the Chinese they will have to be top notch Drillers to stop the hole bending which would put extra strain on the Drill string through Friction of the string rubbing on the Hole wall

[@markae0]

Imagine the twist torque on the bit at that length.

[@nicktorr7888]

They're probably using a mud driven drilling motor to reduce or eliminate the torque along the drillstring

[@siriusBhive]

We're all digging holes. But will we ever reach Australia? Enjoy your holes guys

[@macforme]

The Indian Ocean is on the opposite side of earth to the USA.... so we would drown first 🤣😳

[@NewsChannel-y4g]

​@@macformeyou believe that.

[@mehrcat1]

'China's drilling a hole so deep that Mount Everest could fit inside it.' Complete Horse manure!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That would be an enormous cone-shaped hole, not a shaft.

[@tuomassankiaho]

Well these are like science teletups. most of the things you need to do again, so you get real facts :D They are entertaining, but it tells enough when feets are used

[@charlieacook]

i think its called hyperbole

[@Haulinbassracing]

I worked on a rig that recently did the longest lateral in north america.

[@BTenold]

Which rig? I thought H&P held that revord?

[@stevenleslie8557]

They want to release the Balrog.

[@NewsChannel-y4g]

too deep too greedy

[@skialpentolic]

I wonder if all those dwarfs have a union?

[@maretranquillity]

It used to be that in drilling one had to use a bit of sufficient diameter to accept the well casing. This required the bit to be larger in diameter than the casing. In order to change the bit one had to "trip" the well, which means that you had to pull out all the casing pipe, put on a new bit and put it all back. I assume that we have technology now that allows a bit to be narrow enough to go down the well casing and then expand to the proper size. If anyone actually knows how this is done these days I would be interested in finding out.

[@arijitsyam113]

❤Great news for scientists and technology.

[@RobertMatheny-Lts]

All good. But if I’m at the beach and something under the sand pokes me. I’m going to be awfully mad.

[@robertnicholson7733]

"Chinese scientists get access to the rock that covered the earth in the early cretaceous period" amazing! They may find fossils of dinosaurs down there unlike all the other fossils of dinosaurs we have found on the surface in rocks from "other" periods

[@drewk7557]

we've only been 8 miles down but somehow it's claimed what the center is? People believe anything.

[@anthemmakersmusic]

They need the samples to analyze the difference in the soil nutrients.

[@Dr_Larken]

Don’t forget about the billions of gold they’re buying along with Saudi Arabia! It seems like some countries have a plan! Just imagine if America would have a plan instead of dividing & bickering with each other!

[@douglasparise3986]

Yes, our plan is predicated on gender and race and pronouns

[@Krazycat321]

That’s Racist! You hurt my Feeeeelings…. Now I need a cry room😢

[@AwokenEntertainment]

It’s nearly impossible to form a long term plan like those countries because we change our leadership every four years which more promotes short term goals. China and Saudi Arabia are playing the long game..

[@douglasparise3986]

@@AwokenEntertainment why aren't hundreds of millions flocking, migrating to these wonderful lands

[@RATCLIFFE-LISTENS]

THANK YOU! VERY FEW ACTUALLY TAKE THE TIME TO OFFER SENSIBLE COMPARATIVE THOUGHT. YOU ARE COMPLETELY CORRECT.

[@alexshatner3907]

Maybe they want to drill the deepest hole to avoid having to come through Mexican Border

[@DaleWoodward-v7z]

If they drill deep enough, maybe they will hit magma 🌋

[@nolafool8193]

FUNNY

[@Helpfulsuggestions]

I love this possibility

[@cristiandumitrana6510]

They are drilling they're own grave .... WHY? With all respect for TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE

[@Boris_Chang]

When I read about some deep bore project somewhere, I find myself wondering about what dormant ancient lifeforms it might unearth. And what if there is some virus or bacteria, dormant for millions of years, for which there is no immunity and no possible cure. I guess I should cut down on the coffee.

[@AquaRin.]

Something will def emerge😢

[@HeresMyView]

If bacteria that can survive millions of years are discovered, I'm pretty sure the scientists want to duplicate this secret recipe. They want to know the secrets of long life. 😂😂 How do they determine how old is the bacteria? Use a clock? 😂😂 How do they move bacteria or virus that live deep in thousands of ft to the surface? The change in depth and atmospheric prrssure will surely kill the specimens. 😢 This is like Shangri-la, the secret of eternal long life. Once you leave, you age rapidly instantly like a melting butter. 😂😂

[@jwmustang1]

@@froufroufeatherstone6291yes an over paid liar. We have politicians for that.

[@_Timed_]

There is most like no organism that survives at that depth and temperature. But then again we never know

[@KathleenAherne]

​@@_Timed_thks, timed; I feel better

[@battlebob6156]

"When there is a hole there is a goal." - A-Train

[@ddbb3195]

Geologically and sexually.

[@williamhassall4453]

how heavy would all these drill bits weigh .it must get to a point where the thread joining each piece wont be able to support the enormous weight and strip out blocking the shaft

[@A2J_Tim]

if they have only drilled 9 miles deep, how do they know whats beyond that? honestly? any thing they say about whats deeper than that is just theory and speculation.

[@latinmike7]

NO BODY CARES, LIFE IS UP HERE, THAT WHAT YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT

[@GlowBright333]

Wondering how the drill team keeps the drill going straight down and not going sideways? I have seen diagrams that oil exploration will go lateral at a depth on purpose, this explains length vs. depth. How do they steer a spinning drill bit? If you could make a mention if you update this in the future. Thx

[@zerolatitude2923]

Behind the bit (up the hole) there is a wrist like joint. We can move that joint to steer the bit. Data can come up through the mud or in a wired BHA (Bottom hole assembly) The directional boys are really good at what they do. Was a tool pusher on a rig in Dubai.

[@TheLastOilMan]

Google directional drilling we do it for a living in the O&G business !

[@jamesbrock8498]

And one of the problems is iron ferrite it's like drooling through a solid steel plate miles thick

[@wesloucks3416]

One the best sites on the tube🤠👍

[@joecog8949]

You build the bit/ mechanism to be the toughest. What happens when the bit breaks off? You can't drill through it and the hole collapses on its own.

[@claudioathlete]

I always wondered.. Why we were always taught the layers of the earth in school. Its theory. We dont even know if it IS an iron core. Minerals n history is different if you drilled a hold to the core anywhere. Very fascinating

[@leahstewart1007]

👍 You do good work. Thank you

[@0dbm]

Love your presentation 🤙❤️

[@timroberts8249]

I enjoy your channel keep up the good work 😊

[@jarrrrred]

Actually.. China is looking into mass producing Small Nuclear Reactors (SMRs). One of the main hurdles of this is how Nuclear waste is disposed of. Theoretically dumping Nuclear waste deep into the Earth is if not, the most viable option.

[@NebosvodGonzalez]

Geothermal Energy will be a lot viable once we figure out how to make super deep holes.

[@andreastyrberg7556]

heating with geothermal is very much viable right now - with just 100 m holes. Eben if it is not electriciy production it gets out a lot of needed energy in a stable way.

[@TheLastOilMan]

You need to do some research on this subject

[@alonzomaynard9500]

Drilling into the earth's mantle is a bad idea.

[@saraoconnor594]

The competency of the Chinese is so questionable that their bad idea is frightening!

[@Ryan_Christopher]

King Kong Kingdom Underspace is just Fiction you know.

[@macforme]

It is not going to end well ..... and we could ALL be covered in scorching outer core oozing from the center of the earth. I'm going to stop paying my bills.... no point. 🤣😂🤯😡😳

[@Damo-np7ul]

Nowhere near the mantle!

[@topcatandgang]

russia already did it and decided not to go any further. Scientists found microscopic fossils of single-celled organisms at 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) down. And at nearly the same depth, they discovered water. They also found that the temperature at the bottom of the hole reached a blistering 356°F (180°C). Being too hot to continue, drilling officially halted in 1994.

[@mountainmanxyz]

Ok, you earned a like on this one. 🎉

[@Polarbrrr316]

Good job on getting the middle of the earth correctly. It is solid in the middle, not magma, as people used to think

[@alive.off-grid]

Drilling into the Earth will cause a catastrophic disaster..

[@johnnywright5236]

I guess that the earth at one time was the size of a basketball

[@javierramos9795]

If we never drilled that deep, how do we know what the unexplored layers are made of?

[@NonComOff]

one question, do they have to change the drill bits at any point?

[@dhaines9793]

Are the Chinese trying to solve the mystery of the Curse of Oak Island first?

[@NewYorkTyrantHunter]

lmfao bro your videos and commentary is so good

[@andieslive669]

Honestly, does any notice lately that the Earth is going through lots of catastrophic changes because all of a sudden Typhoon are destroying lots of countries. Hmm these are warning signs that some things bad is about to happen on Planet Earth.

[@StoneTriton]

1 like given for that last bit

[@rhondaconklin6103]

If the earth's surface was 36K below our current surface, does that mean that the earth was smaller then? If so, then our planet surface is growing.

[@chrisshick2335]

what about high-power millimeter waves to drill ultra deep instead of conventional drill bits?

[@Vlcounek]

Chinese guys drilling out some serious ancient alien tech sh*t 😶

[@jpajpaassi6614]

🕉 Satyameva Jayate

[@dirkmoolman]

So dinosaurs used to live 36 000 ft down ? The earth was that much smaller ?

[@doctoribanez]

I heard some people think that there is more water inside the earth than in all of the oceans. Im wondering if hitting lava or whatever might be a bad idea. Letting something out that is supposed to stay in there

[@daveconner9520]

how do we know whats in the middle of the earth if we haven't been there?

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

What amazes me is where all the rock/earth come from, which covered that era 🤔

[@Bombarded1n]

1:51 🍻 cheers 😂

[@ramrod9556]

That was one hella big surface bit.

[@valyshknee4203]

this was already tried before by the USSR and it took them longer than 50 years to get to around 3km from memory, it was a race between the US and the USSR who could get to the earth's inner mantel crust earlier, aka part of its core, the US stopped after just a few years meanwhile the USSR kept going, this wont be done in a year or two.

[@thefeatheredfrontiersman8135]

Steve, I really like the environmental videos and concepts that you have been discussing. You get your early like again.

[@jimmytam4600]

In this case, what's the difference between length and depth?

[@mayaashok0806]

if im right length is the height of something and depth is how deep something is

[@mslisa5791]

@@mayaashok0806so length is how high it is in the air?

[@AtPlay22]

They are going to open a vent and create a magma eruption, resulting in a new mountain in 100s of years 😂

[@valyshknee4203]

the USSR dug for almost 70 years straight, reached a point of 3km DEPTH from memory, nothing close ever happened.

[@varminthunterhobbyist4302]

They're trying to get to our country through the earth like I did to get to theirs when I was a kid.

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

Sorry, China uses metric units.

[@dli-cashare5942]

Feet is used to easily imagine how long aproximately. Metric is used for exact measurement for science. Can you imagine how long a meter is in relation to what?

[@zl4384]

确实，希望英制单位早日消失

[@danielalexander2824]

Imagine the thermal energy that could be harnessed from the core!

[@FliGuyRyan]

Totally agree... isn't Elon Musk super curious and willing to drop a $1B to get into the mantle? I'd suggest digging the largest cone-style pit every dug, and THEN start the shaft drilling. That way, you can get a "head start" on the depth.

[@anthemmakersmusic]

They are trying to change the composition of the soil and make it better for growing crops in the desert.

[@walle9797]

If you put the metric measurements on the screen also you’ll get more viewers.

[@TheLastOilMan]

Decide by 3 is it so difficult ?

[@Arjay.M88]

How do we know the depths of each layer, the thickness of each layer, and what the earth is made of in the center if we have only made it 0.19% into the earth's crust? interesting... these are hypothesis, not facts.

[@brolys992]

Imagine if Africa had this technology....we would discover wonders

[@Zyzyx442]

Dwarf Fortress, you don't want to dig too deep...

[@alexblik122]

What's the point?

[@lorettaross2007]

Already hit the like button! Good information, thanks for sharing! Hi Steve! Still love those eyes!

[@patrickdurham8393]

I saw a video somewhere about a possible laser drill for deep bore holes

[@bertwesler1181]

good report

[@JohnGrandline]

Finding Agaertha etc.

[@ossiepadrino4513]

Micro-organisms that perhaps modern man cannot survive.

[@Wheres_my_Dragonator]

It's solid/molten rock down there.. There are no caves down there. They physically can't exist due to the pressures down there. If things could live in magma/molten rock, then we would've encountered them already since people live in Hawaii just fine. It's not like they can even get up to the top to begin with. At a certain point, the immense pressure just closes up the tiny gap that humans made. That's why it's difficult to dig that deep, you can't just simply break some rocks and forget about it.

[@vdong1112]

So how do we know about the cretatiouse time if we have never drilled this far to explore.

[@TheCarterKent]

From an engineering standpoint, they are wasting time, effort, expense in ignoring the laws of physics. As they go deeper underground the difficulties increase exponentially, so the more sensible thing to do would be to dig out the area (above their drill hole) as deeply as possible. For example, if they dug out the surrounding area to a depth of 500 feet, that would mean they would have to deal with 500 feet LESS drilling difficulties. I don't know what the maximum feasible depth that they could carve out around their drill hole, but it would be at least 500 feet.

[@kk2ak14]

They going to fill with temu items?

[@btoolman]

Drill bits at surface will always act differently at depth especially when you go deeper. The pressure will exponentially rise and the temperature will rise as well. To drill this, it will be critical to actually think outside of the box. China is not known for this. They can copy stuff, but they cannot innovate.

[@TheSilmarillian]

Digging to the core of the planet what could possible go wrong good people.

[@Jesse-zk9ge]

Sounds like a great job for college majoring in geology and engineering. Very interesting. Still kind of sucks that it's funded by oil. I would be more interested in learning how the Earth was made. 🤔

[@mbdulka]

I'm having Krypton vibes here ...

[@KingOfGamesss]

I saw a video a couple of Years ago that said someone was using a giant LASER to shoot a deep hole...like the Death-Star from Star Wars

[@vmw0710]

HIRE the crew from The Core! They will get us there💤

[@dli-cashare5942]

It's already known the inner core of earth is burning and molten.(that's why volcanoes are spewing lavas).

[@7779-c3m]

prove IT ,Only God knows

[@renezarate2397]

Depending on the depth Of the drill bit Can you imagine how long it takes them to trip pipe just to replace the bit

[@curiouscatlabincgetsworrie7755]

Why does the coffee look like tea?

[@kevinchong5424]

You get coffee, I get the like

[@pukavoket]

They are digging their "Financial Hole"!

[@stephencallard8637]

the sums don't add up! all the layers of the earth. Crust) 25mi, mantel) 1800mi, outer core) 1400mi, inner core) 750mi. X2 gives you the other side to make 7950 miles across. The earth is 24000 across!

[@DigiDuit]

Youre wrong

[@bradrizzo3950]

China is digging a hole to the US, they say there 😂

[@MonochromaticBlues]

Driving into the earths mantle can cause dangerous events to take place internally he must be stopped

[@RichardStasiak-v6t]

Good luck to all the drillers!

[@dublkrossr2059]

My favorite reason for the drilling is to prove that all of the Scientific BS speculation is wrong about the inner Earth layers.

[@DianeHasHopeInChrist]

These fools are cooling the Earth's core, thereby demagnetizing the Earth.🙄

[@TheCheeley89]

There gonna use the ancient dirt for traditional Chinese medicine for its healing properties

[@newagephantom2187]

If u said first ur gay Like if u agree

[@alanfan8941]

Finding and obtaining those liquid dinosaurs is the incentive for a lot of expensive human activity. They must be valuable or something.

[@TheLastOilMan]

Hydrocarbons are not formed from dead dinosaurs, google source rocks !

[@aurelnegrea7617]

What’s the purpose ?? Nonsense

[@bubbsmayne7533]

Did you watch the video? Kinda seems answered buddy.

[@villelater2708]

Maybe a spaceship wants a parking place?

[@stevewiles7132]

The Silurians won't be happy.