What did the Soviets discover in the Kola Superdeep well at a depth of 12,262 meters?

We know so little about the structure of the Earth. For example, our planet is not fully spherical, as it slightly flattens when rotating. Therefore, its equatorial diameter (12.754 km) is 43 km larger than the polar one (12.711 km). Our planet is the densest celestial body in the solar system, followed by Mercury among other planets. Different layers of our planet's core, crust, and mantle rotate at different speeds relative to each other. Oxygen makes up about 50% of the entire mass of the earth's crust, which is found in bound form in almost all minerals. About 25% of the crust is silicon, and the remaining 25% is everything else.
The continental crust is on average 35-45 km thick but it can reach 75 km under mountain ranges. The matter density in the center of the Earth's core reaches 12.5 tons per 1 m³, and the pressure there is about 3.7 million atmospheres.
Humanity has dived deep into oceans, flown to the moon, and even sent its robotic explorers to Mars. We have studied the surface of the Earth quite well, but as always the most interesting thing lies deep inside. And although these depths are literally under our feet, we know little more about them, if not less, than about the deepest space. A whole "expedition" is needed to look even a little into the earth's crust, just like flying to the moon. And there have been such projects that brought some amazing data.
Well, it's time to find out what lies deep down in the ground. Is there life out there? And what interesting things have already been found there?
Today we'll look at three of the most interesting ultra-deep wells that became one of the first projects exploring extreme depths of the earth's crust.
What was found in the deepest wells?
#Earth #KolaSuperdeep #ReYOUniverse

[@ryv]

Hi. Do you think there's anything interesting out there?

[@AIGW777]

Yes and I love your Channel. Please keep the content going.

[@donniegoodman8679]

Now that I know the diameter is 12km , my attempt at roller skating around the world is back on.

[@Lilmiket1000]

Hey! Nope just more star stuff arranged in a different way. In other words same ish different day. 😂

[@ersendal2466]

@@donniegoodman8679 yeah lets roll..

[@1oh169]

@@donniegoodman8679 under 40kms is doable 🤣

[@totalbliss1]

My ex-wife's dark, black heart is somewhere deep down there. Please return it to her if you come across it.

[@jgedutis]

She sounds like she might be related to my Aunt Lisa

[@donquijote6030]

Haha. Her heart isn't there, but that hole is from where she and the other heartless wenches come.

[@SifiFan]

Lol

[@jroc2201]

It will turn into a diamond down there

[@davidjohnson-iw6vj]

My child mother selfish heart is down there also, if you find it let hers hitch a ride also.

[@alexch3618]

Exploring deep holes. Man's fascination since the beginning.

[@HodorGamingTV]

Every hole is a goal.

[@mrtruth1748]

I like moist holes.

[@jeanpaultongeren125]

what kind of holes does man want to get into lol

[@ZboeC5]

@@jeanpaultongeren125 I have seen enough of the internet to know that the only answer is "all of them".

[@waltermessines5181]

a dirty mind is a joy forever.

[@joshlaher]

I once dug a 6ft hole in my backyard, so I can understand these challenges.

[@martinburke1433]

Well that’s 3 6ft holes I know about now yours , our lasses and the one on brook side years ago ended up being a patio ? Ha ha

[@TheyreBetterDry]

Was it to bury a body?

[@Smellmipoo4932]

Not if you add curry powder and salt, but remember to have the milk ready.

[@bruinflight1]

Oh yeah??? Well... I'm digging... a... 10 foot hole. So. There. Yeeeeah.

[@GerberosCZ]

@@TheyreBetterDry To bury a hobby

[@GoViking933]

I’ve worked in the oilpatch in Western Alberta for 25 years and have a bit of an infatuation with Deep Wells and the challenges associated with them. I’ve been aware of both the Kola & Bertha Rogers wells for 20 odd years now and despite much research, this vid has the best & most images of the Kola drilling operation. I had never heard of the Swedish well so thanks for the tip. The temperatures we were encountering around here at 3000-3800 meters were in the 100-130 degrees Celsius range.

[@GoViking933]

The deepest well I recall working on here was ~ 4300 meters. We have much deeper than that - ~ 6500 meters true vertical depth range, but I never got the honour (headache) of working on those.

[@GoViking933]

We have wells around here with ~ 10,000 meters total depth as they say, but those are modern wells with say 3-4 kms true vertical depth and the rest what we call Build, which is the horizontal leg through the pay zone.

[@GoViking933]

While very impressive (how do they slide 7 kms of pipe?!?), those aren’t True Vertical Wells, and why they aren’t as impressive as TVD Deep Wells is that the deeper you drill, the slower and harder it gets, higher pressures, higher temperatures and harder rock all contributing to this.

[@NueZeelundOutbakk]

Good comments Viking. Do you live near Viking?

[@GoViking933]

@@NueZeelundOutbakk Viking, Alberta? Nope, I live in West Central :)

[@adamstalilonis8787]

Thank you for this. Very interesting!

[@kurtgandenberger6139]

i live near the appalachian mountains at an elevation near 300 meters. i had a surprise when we drilled a deep well and at a depth of 80 meters what was dredged up was sea shells.

[@silverhorder1969]

They have found full whale skeletons on mountain tops in Perú. Evolutionists say it’s from plate tectonics. If you believe in the Bible and a global flood, that makes more sense to me.

[@dabberdan3200]

Correction: Diatom shells 🐚 aka diatomaceous earth is just crushed up fossilized sea shells.

[@Roarmeister2]

Then you would be surprised to hear about the ocean sediments at the top of Everest?

[@Thedude897]

At least it wasn't a flash frozen mammoth chewing strawberry with an erect penis. Something, something every 12000 years the earth does some crazy shit really fast.

[@Steve4TheWin]

I never met ANYONE from appalachian that uses metrics instead on American units of measurement.

[@berndp3426]

I think that from a certain point on, temperature becomes a problem. And also the so-called lithoplastic deformation events set in. Further down you need temperatureproof drilling heads, eventually need of coolant. Water starts evaporating at 100°C, so thereafter something else would be required. But finally and even all this will reach a point from where everything won't remain solid, also the well diameter, equal what expensive superhard drillhead material you have in operation and undergoes permanent deformation, thermal thread, from where a "mechanical drilling" no longer can be done properly or even work because you are literally kneading your drillhead forward into lithoplastic mineralic masses, merely sooner or later transitioning into a consistence of lava.

[@christrupiano4383]

And to think that all this time I could have taken a leisurely walk around the planet in just a couple of hours. WOW!

[@lukaskuhl902]

Yeah. I always thought the earth is massiv like thousends of Kilometers in size but aperently ist just 12.7 who would have thougth.

[@Zeriel00]

Like that Rick and Morty little planet xD

[@thehuntermikipl1170]

@@lukaskuhl902 Most of civilized world uses comma as a decimal separator. Here is an example so your american brains can have a chance of comprehending it: 1 : 2 = 0,5

[@nickboyce251]

@@thehuntermikipl1170 I think what they're getting at is that the narrator actually *says* "the diameter is twelve point seven kilometres" .... even worse, he says "the equatorial diameter is twelve point seven five four kilometres, which is forty kilometres larger than the polar diameter which is twelve point seven one one kilometres" ... it's as if he has no idea what the words he's saying mean, or any comprehension of numbers ... it's comical.

[@thehuntermikipl1170]

@@nickboyce251 Holy shit, that's right, I missed that. And when I saw Chris' comment I didn't rewatch the beginning, I just looked at the numbers with video paused, and assumed it was about decimal separator. Nevermind then, and sorry to Chris and Lukas.

[@rayswarnau3868]

As an exploration driller who regularly drills to about 1km deep I’ve always been fascinated about drilling much deeper. It is already a difficult job drilling beyond a K and I have no idea how the drillers were able to go so deep and keep the equipment working.

[@jamIam6548]

I too am a exploration driller 😉

[@rayswarnau3868]

@@jamIam6548 plenty of strange holes out there to explore 😉

[@dessertstorm7476]

Since they are drilling straight down I'm guessing the main hurdle is losing torque over distance, so you would need additional mud motors placed in the string and the main problem with that is the temperature at that depth destroying the motor rubber and seals in whatever logging tools they are running in the string.

[@tonyv8925]

@@richardbaker_0086 😆😁

[@lorinwood3300]

@@dessertstorm7476 main hurdle is heat and pressure go way up and the material becomes way to hard to cut

[@mattcheshire2002ify]

12.75km? I think I’ll walk around the planet tomorrow. Might want to check the decimal place there..

[@VIKASSAINI007]

Yep its 12,754 km not 12.754 km 😂 Even I was confused initially what is he talking about

[@misob]

@god it's a European thing and as a born European living in the west, it doesn't make sense to me either. You would think it would be obvious to use comma as a pause or a separator, like we use here in this sentence, and a decimal point for decimals.

[@matthewdavies4012]

it’s obvious the narrator is reading from a script with no understanding of the context or that europeans use a decimal point instead of a comma for a thousands separator. Just poor video directing to be honest

[@misob]

@god I understand what you are saying regarding the metric system and yes kilo = 1000. But see how even you got confused when you said “Wtf? He is correct. 12.57 km means 12,570 meters. You owe him an apology.” Yes you are correct 12.57km IS 12,570m, but the video implies 12.574km is 12574 km (in Europe) not meters. Anyway the guy throughout the entire video narrates it using the decimal point as apparently you and I would see it, yet at the beginning he tells us that the earth has a diameter of “twelve point seven five four” kilometers (in European)… hence the confusion , he should have just said the entire number as 12750 km What I am trying to say is I think you gave that guy, or girl Viki, shit for nothing : )

[@misob]

@god duh

[@alexmitchell7083]

Came for a wild Soviet story. Stayed for the fantastic nap that this video facilitated.

[@zachtaylor1505]

Just woke up from similar circumstances. Rewatching in hopes to stay awake this time 😂

[@maraxussrafhael]

Well, another wonderful channel I've discovered around here.

[@nicholasm2254]

My favorite parts of the video are where they explain exactly what the earth's makeup is and then say everything we thought was true about the earth's interior isn't.

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

They do the same with everything else on this planet to.... Thats why you don't listen to the lies of your Government and poison yourself 💉 💀 💀

[@almuric1baggins337]

Yes especially at the start of the video telling us that the Earths diameter is only just over 12 kilometres!!!!!

[@tobberino]

@@almuric1baggins337 lol I think it’s an American narrator, probably doesn’t know what a kilometre is

[@nicholasm2254]

The truth is no one had any idea about the earth, space, or even the human body to a large extent. However they speak about it as if they have all the wonders of the world figured out.......

[@annabeaulne2541]

The Earth is nothing but Dead Giants Body parts be in Animal or Human Go to Mud Fossil University to learn more. Ask Roger he knows All

[@philswede]

Greetings from Sweden. Thank you so much for this upload! I love this topic!

[@ericb2017]

… but you are MAGA? aren’t you some kinda flat earther or something? you actually believe in real science!?

[@philswede]

@@ericb2017 judging only on your comments you must be a AOC-leftie.. ;) God bless you and your loved ones!

[@JimKrause1975]

Greetings from Ohio, USA Phil! Hope your day is blessed! ✌

[@philswede]

@@JimKrause1975 Greetings! All is well, having yet a blessed day. God bless you and your loved ones, Sir.

[@chigwom7894]

👵🏿 who who who

[@pieterprinsloo1415]

this is an amazing presentation. many thanks

[@Brandon-Lee_]

Wow! I didn't know the equator was only 12.7 Kilometers in diameter! That's a whole 7.9 miles! I would have guessed it to be just a few more miles longer than that. At least 10 miles or so.

[@jugo1944]

This is gonna save me time going to work. I'll just go thru the earth

[@justinalias2279]

I came immediately to the comments section to find this exact one. It's wild for them to get that part wrong in what otherwise seems like a high production video. Proof reading skipped haha

[@ighfee]

@@justinalias2279 same here. i was about to type all that and thought someone else would have noticed that straight away lol ,what a fuck up.

[@justinalias2279]

@@ighfee they probably missed it because they are talking about a 12 km deep hole, but yeah, still

[@ighfee]

@@justinalias2279 but the narrator actually said it as well, when you read something back out loud you catch errors, it's called proof reading

[@Rafaga777]

That was very interesting. Thanks a lot for this video.

[@magdebates2697]

u need to wake up kida and do some independant research of YOUR OWN and stop blving your lying masters lol

[@smulktis]

This is great. I’ve been wanting to know about this hole. This is chock full of juicy data. Thank you!

[@estelombo]

cant even get the basic dimensions correct at the start

[@bigstreetguns6619]

They picked up on screams of demons being brutality murdered by the Doom guy.

[@culturedcritters]

I am actually impressed by the facts stated in this video as I learned them in college Geology classes and rarely hear them anywhere else.

[@wmgthilgen]

The one and only thing, though they didn't actual see it. Was the fact that at the distance they bored down to was limited by the constant melting of the drill bit. They utilzied various materal's and regardlessly, none of them were able to cause the bore hole to go any deeper, when they basically just melted.

[@purplehayes5718]

Sol nice to see honest reporting.

[@doom7467]

There are several interesting stories that happened in my country about the wells. In the city of Constantine, where I live in (Algeria, North Africa), where a farmer dug an artesian well on his land, and after 80 meters of drilling, they found carbon materials in a huge amount, and he contacted committees at the Ministry of Energy, and after taking samples of the existing materials, a report came that it was just old car oil, and the well was sunk and banned The place to enter and wells were dug in that area and everything is videos on KZbin you can search on it and there is also a similar story in a city not far from the scene of the first accident about a farmer who dug a well and at a depth of 100 meters the well exploded with hot water and natural gas

[@edwardcarberry1095]

IF, it is still available? watch Dr Steven Reiss (spelling sorry??able) Primary Water in 1985 interview. As I find very interesting, but

[@BlueSpaceLizard]

The explanation that it was 'old car oil' just doesn't make sense if they are suggesting that it leaked from above. More likely that it was a naturally occurring oil substance that someone didn't want known. Oil being far more abundant or even naturally forming would be inconvenient to oil companies that gain financially from oil being scarce.

[@ponetastic]

@@BlueSpaceLizard you never know what might have been over that lad in the past. down on ol tank farm road where i used to live, the say a whole pool of oil and chemicals sank down into the earth until they hit bedrock and couldnt sink any deeper. all from the old oil facilities that used to be there almost a hundred years ago now. er got the eternal flames brurning up top now and while the earth grows green and looks good, you certainly wouldnt want to drill a water well there. they just put an airport over half or it and problem solved. what ever dudes real story was.. its not some conspiracy from big oil not wanting you know know about it. ill gurantee you that much. thats the stupidest shit ive ever heard. havent you ever seen there will be blood? if theres profit there, theyll drink your milkshake.

[@doom7467]

@@BlueSpaceLizard I have read many theories claiming that oil is located in specific places and that it exists naturally, like other natural resources that are in the earth and are inexhaustible, and we have been hearing since the eighties until now in the media that oil will end up inside. 10 or 15 years before the existence of the Internet, I do not know the reality of these theories, I am not a biological expert, but I assure you that I saw oil wells explode like water wells in the desert in my country 70 years ago until now. We also live on top of the largest underground water reservoir on Earth, and the government won't let you extract a gallon of it. From the water without his permission, the drilling license takes several years to accept the drilling of a well for our land, and we hear the same scarecrow that the water will run out and the wells will dry up

[@Zodroo_Tint]

@@doom7467 It is more than likely not fossil.

[@jefo2405]

I've always been fascinated with the perennial layers of dead "planets".

[@notozknows]

I was going to comment on that!

[@Teshake]

Were you surprised to learn @ 0:15 that the earth’s equarorial diameter is only12.75 km? 😂

[@heremapping4484]

Most 'dead planets' are not actually nearly as dead as people often give them credit for. As an example, Mars is not a geologically dead planet, neither is Venus.

[@mikearchibald744]

@@heremapping4484 neither is this one....yet.

[@GeorgeTelop]

@@heremapping4484 ok and what that's got to do with this comment lol

[@bernielomax3635]

I was hoping for a monster, or at least some spooky sounds or some random artifact. Oh well, can't win 'em all. Good informative video anyway. Cheers.

[@francisbusa1074]

Or maybe some loose change...

[@raqialife9286]

They did say they heard spooky sounds.

[@starchild7820]

I believe they found something u know how they talk around shit

[@francisbusa1074]

On Coast to Coast After Dark with Art Bell back in the '90s, they said they heard terrible screams from many voices way down deep. They figured that they must be hearing screams coming out of hell. I still have the CD. Also the CD about Mel's Hole.

[@xlearnus6409]

The screams could be coming from the living, not the dead. All the missing people that have disappeared/abducted and held captive and being tortured by inner-earth reptilians/E.T.s in underground places.

[@Arexodius]

If anyone cares, a little note on the pronunciation of "chikyuu", the Japanese word for the planet earth (地球, basically meaning ground sphere): The accentuation is not put on the first syllable (ち, chi), but rather on the _second syllable_ (きゅう, kyuu). Additionally, the "i" in "chi" should be more silent, more as part of the "ch"-sound itself. So, what you basically end up with is something like: "ch-KYUU", if that makes any sense.

[@PhonoDirect]

This documentary is a piece of art.

[@MrFrog_]

Piece of fart more like.

[@victortiempo]

What about their findings on varieties of layers in relation to earthquake vibrational effects as well as temperature level ?

[@lukelewkowicz2233]

Around the time when the drilling took place there was this swedish oil guy who claimed that formafion of oil was due to mineral origins under great preasure at great depth.

[@davidsellers3639]

What not dead dinosaurs 😂😂😂

[@jackthepirate9233]

Was it Fletcher Prouty?

[@jjtimmins1203]

I think he's right.

[@keelo-byte]

Reflux methane under several hundred bar for a few millennia. Who knows what kind of goop you might cookup?

[@kwinter2541]

"It is easier to reach space 400km up than it is to drill 12km a third of the way thru Terra·s crust ."

[@jessepollard7132]

All they found was that drill heads can't drill through hard magma. And that has been known for many years. As soon as the pressure gets too high, rock starts to flow. And that binds the drill head and makes it impossible to drill.

[@MrBanaanipommi]

they did find something weird stuff that is used these days on cars today. it makes layer on all metal metal - to - metal surfaces and it reduces friction, heat and emissions and also makes engine power back to original or even a bit more. also it does not pour out of engine when you change the oil, it sticks on the friction surfaces and with normal driving style, it lasts for 100 000km without the engine getting worn at all! that is called RVS-technology, from finland! :) i suggest to try it!

[@benjamincoffman261]

Trust me, it's not impossible. But you'd have to have something like a drill bit of pure diamond, and also I believe drilling into magma that's creating a floating shield that deep. The earth will take a nice burp.

[@jessepollard7132]

@@benjamincoffman261 They were using drill bits of diamond. necessary when drilling through basalt. But the earth would not "take a nice burp", the magma would just flow into the drill bit and clog it. which is what was happening.

[@benjamincoffman261]

@@jessepollard7132 I never think you'd be able to go through the magma regardless. I just meant you could reach that area. It's magma. Nothing exist down there thats solid from what we know till you hit the core.

[@jessepollard7132]

@@benjamincoffman261 Can't even get that far as the rock gets soft due to the pressure. it flows and crushes the shaft - making it impossible to drill.

[@xxxmikeyjock]

did this video just start out saying the earth is only 12km in diameter?

[@ernie5229]

Makes you appreciate the 12.2 km hole even more, doesn't it?

[@danielwebster5748]

As deep as that is that didn't even get but somewhere between a quarter of the way and half the way to the mantle. We haven't even cracked the crust yet that's crazy

[@Eoin_D]

Surely it's just rock and magma

[@rodolfosantana9015]

We're just fungi on a space marble

[@unchargedpickles6372]

I hope we don't drill all the way through to the mantel cause then it would no longer be a drill hole it'll be a man-made volcano lol

[@danielwebster5748]

@@unchargedpickles6372 we should when we know more about space than we know about our own planet I mean do it in a controlled manner which is quite easy to accomplish

[@steveflagar4299]

What’s crazy is the authority with which science tell us all about what they “know”. When it’s so painfully obvious how little ….

[@ericmcmanus5179]

When you say that we tried to get to the mantle in the early 60's but it unfortunately had no results, what do you mean by "no results"? Did they fail to go deep enough? Did it end up being more than 5 miles deep so they couldn't reach it?

[@pavlik_morozov_1932]

I visited this Deep Hole on the Kola Peninsula in 1995, when drilling was 'temporarily' suspended to exactly this depth. My attention was then caught by a bulging zinc bucket, which was on top of the hole, apparently to prevent the tools from falling into the hole. Out of curiosity, I removed the bucket and listened, if perhaps I could hear the speeches of the 15th Party Congress of China...

[@electronicexperimentalist5906]

What you said and what the screen showed for earths diameter were different right at the beginning of the video.

[@DaveInBridport]

I dug a hole in my garden. Obviously not as deep as this but it was quite deep. All I found was mud and some stones. I thought they were diamonds but it was gravel.

[@MathiasKp]

Not even some gold down there?

[@omaewamoushindeiru4190]

i once dug a pretty deep hole in my garden and planted a coin, so that when people in the future dig it out will be confused how is a coin made in 2000's at such depth

[@user-qj2en9od5s]

Ya sausage

[@petepillow8642]

I once dug around in a homeless man's sphinx while he was passed out, found alot of crusty poop and some drugs , took a rip right off his backside

[@EatingCat69]

@@petepillow8642 no one cares bro

[@brianwhite5618]

Video is well done and researched but there is one major issue and that is the use of the word "well." Terms like boring or borehole should have been used instead of well. That is because by definition a well is "an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water." The holes drilled into the ground discussed in this video are "exploratory borings."

[@ErgonBill]

Everyone knows if you dig deep enough, you come out in China feet first.

[@NaCreagachaDubha]

The diameter at the equator, at 12 km, is 43 km larger than the polar equator, also 12 km. Literally the first statement in this video

[@paulsven7923]

the muppet narrator stumped by decimal point instead of a comma.....real quality :)

[@Enjoymentboy]

Very interesting. I always thought that what they found was a whole lotta dirt.

[@willissudweeks1050]

Me to lol

[@nadarith1044]

They found that too

[@DaveInBridport]

I believe a vast butchers shop exists 60km down. Sausages are at a knockdown price of £3.50/kilo and they're really tasty.

[@willissudweeks1050]

@@DaveInBridport lol

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

that's a Zeppelin song, isn't it?

[@jimsteen911]

This is the best explanation of the kola superdeep I've seen. You've earned my sub. I hope your other videos are equally informative, my friend. The "reyouniverse" bs threw me off, usually Chinese or other foreign and simplistic English use associated with such names. I suggest changing it

[@MrBanaanipommi]

they found stuff that enforce and heals metal stuff when it gets hot by rubbing metal against metal. from that finns developed great stuff called RVS. it is used in race cars and normal traffic these days, it really works. i use it too.

[@SunDevil527]

It's a gamble to drill the earth so deep. As scientists are unable to accurately predict what's lying below, we may find somethings that change the world for the better or worst.

[@fhjedfdv]

Imagine in a million years when that turbo drill pops up

[@robertsutton3001]

I worked on a well in Oklahoma and flowed it back for 3 weeks. It only made salt water. Supposed to be an oil well.

[@kateapple1]

Wut 😅explain better pls your comment didn’t make a whole lot of sense

[@ThinkBeforeYouSheep]

@@kateapple1 I'll tell you what he meant. He said "I worked on a well in Oklahoma and flowed it back for 3 weeks. It only made salt water. Supposed to be an oil well."

[@VikingKong.]

Thanks for repeating the sentence, I still have no idea what he was talking about though.

[@ThinkBeforeYouSheep]

@@VikingKong. 🤦‍♂️They drilled a well in Oklahoma, when they started to extract it was nothing but salt water, they was drilling for oil, Oklahoma is land locked.

[@keithtalley7171]

Bummer...but it happens...

[@suprarune]

and they also stopped cause the temp at 12km was starting to get so high that the drill got damaged so many times.

[@wmgthilgen]

The issue is, though the surface of the Earth varies from sea level to some 12,000 feet. Which when doing the math is a wee bit more than a couple of mile's. Depending on where on drill's down. The variouss layer's just like the surface layer's change in their depth's. But in number considerably more than just a wee bit more than two. One can, and it's been done numerious time's. Drilling for oil in one spot, finding nothing regardless of how deep. Movie a mile, and find oil a few hundered feet down.

[@socal33]

I found a petrifued blue clam shell, about 80% intact, high in the mountains of Redding, CA. Pretty cool stuff.

[@Hyundairobitdog]

When I was a kid ,my dad was running a backhoe in Tujunga ca mountains and we dug up sea shells..crazy to realize how high the oceans were at one time.

[@barrybarnes96]

@@Hyundairobitdog Possibly the land was thrust up over millennia rather than oceans ever being that deep.

[@Hyundairobitdog]

@@barrybarnes96 yeah true it is earthquake country.

[@joshuakarr-BibleMan]

I heard Sleepy Joe is working hard to potect our rights to life, liberty, and poverty.

[@JacobRouse]

Oh hey Redding, Anderson here 😂

[@korky5214]

Incredible, thank you for the video.

[@MsBartSampson]

7:39 "Resembling some bizarre, giant plant." I love when people have to say things like this because we all know what we think it resembles.

[@JenkemSuperfan]

Need me one like this

[@kristinarain9098]

You guys know we also went to Venus with our remote operated spacecrafts right..? Whole different world that we not only took readings from orbit but also landed on, took panoramic photos, and even analyzed soil samples and recorded actual audio from it's windy surface. The Russian Venera landers are some of those most sophisticated landers ever designed. Fascinating what people leave out when talking about their achievements especially since they did the best explorations of Venus , the most inhospitablely hot and caustic planets ever to exist. Amazing how they can make a probe land on the surface of a planet whose oceans VAPORIZED into it's atmosphere so landing on its surface is like being hundreds if not thousands of feet deep underwater on this planet

[@terrysullivan1992]

Vaporized is not the same as liquid pressure / depth. Atmosphere is Acidic not Caustic.

[@mccririck01]

The Russian Venus landers were impressive for their time but all we have is a few very low resolution images of the surface. There's very little point going back to the surface of venus as the atmospheric pressure and temperature destroy landers in a matter of hours.

[@zenguidancetarot]

I have a stupid question... if we haven't yet drilled down through all the supposed layers, how can we assume what is there?

[@handlehandle998]

Now u talkin !

[@davidmontierth8258]

Scientists have used seismic wave analysis to determine what layers are there and how deep they are. This type of science was done a long time ago and isn't that difficult.

[@MiKEY_TARANTiNO]

@@davidmontierth8258damn what are you a scientist ?

[@Realeye66]

Cheers , good informations

[@davidtaliaferro]

This is a cover up on what really happened; near the end they dropped a microphone down the hole and recorded the sounds of screaming and wailing; the crew quickly left the site and never returned.

[@hazysummersky]

Yeah, well if you'd watched The Core, you'd know that humanity has drilled down to the Earth's core and restarted its rotation with nuclear bombs. That documentary was wild!

[@anonimous2451]

and completely untrue. Oh I know you saw it on TV so it MUST be true. Oh the foolish and their whims.

[@Lexrolla-1]

@@anonimous2451 no very true...I was one of the team

[@anonimous2451]

@@Lexrolla-1 of course you were. Tell me what did you see 7 miles into the abyss?

[@Lexrolla-1]

@@anonimous2451 MOLE PEOPLE

[@jamesb1221222]

I call BS. Everyone knows dinosaurs have been in shelter down there since the asteroid incident... No one told them it was safe.

[@killman369547]

And this was just one borehole. You could probably do millions of superdeep boreholes and each one would be unique.

[@TheTruthPlease100]

Wow! They found a wierd gas pocket in the first site, molten sulfer in the second site! a natural occurring fero fluid (magnetite suspended in oil) in the 3rd drill site! That is so intreging!

[@d0nKsTaH]

2:21 ooooh. that looks like a good setting for a monster movie... :D

[@icykickflip]

One minute in, and the title isn’t even mentioned

[@lagunafishing]

VERY interesting. I've never been involved in deep well drilling, but it seems logical that the weight of the drilling rig at extreme depths would inevitably result in failure. Drilling straight down seems to be a flawed strategy, so why not drill at a 45 degree angle and only have the drill head turn?

[@jessepollard7132]

doesn't help once you are a bit over 1KM down. It is the depth not the length of the hole that is the problem.

[@lagunafishing]

@@jessepollard7132 The rig would be supported by the ground it rests on at 45 degrees.

[@jessepollard7132]

@@lagunafishing The rig was supported by the ground it was on anyway. it takes pressure to cause the bit to bite into rock. at 45% that would be less than half the available pressure as the rest is going sideways. IT also doesn't prevent the rock flowing due to the pressure at 1+km depth.

[@benjamincoffman261]

You add ½ of the actual length to attain the same depth. Plus any plate shift will close it up. I guarantee they chose the spot because of plate stability.

[@lagunafishing]

@@benjamincoffman261 Choosing suitable ground locations least prone to collapse is vital. To mitigate potential collapse further, the simple remedy being to incorporate rigging inside sacrificial/permanent sleeve pipes so the drill head and excavations can be safely removed - again at a 45 degree bore angle on which the excavator assembly head would rest. *Horizontal boring apparatus can be used to place pipe sections into position as it progresses.

[@airgunningyup]

when drilling a deep hole in dense material , its not the tip of the drill causing all the drag , its the friction along the shaft of the drill.. what they needed to do was drill in sections .. first 2 km , make the hole 3 feet wide , next 2 km , 2.5 ft wide, next 2km , 2 feet wide and so on till they got to the 8 inch drill .. So they sidewall friction on the shaft is greatly reduced , and the chances of a partial collapse trapping the shaft are reduced

[@KenJackson_US]

Great idea. But there's still a problem. Below a certain depth, the pressure is so great that even the hardest granite and gneiss can't resist deforming to expand into the hole. I read one claim that maintaining a hole open that deep is like maintaining a hole in a pot of stew.

[@airgunningyup]

@@KenJackson_US good point , theres a lot of side loading from decompression. Lube and horsepower is the only solution there.. what my idea possibly allows them to do is lower casings into the first 2-3 sections , so the real struggle starts at final depth

[@pedroaboffa]

Great video.. ty !!

[@seitisetsoh4991]

I read the thumbnail as "Koala" and thought the Australians had tried it too, lol

[@harrietharlow9929]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Lilmiket1000]

Lmao so did I!

[@trimetrodon]

Just 13,000 more miles and the Kola hole could have become the Koala hole.

[@mikeventurasailing]

Oh yes indeed. Many a lonely aussie has explored the koala hole on a friday night.

[@lgarla23]

Very well done my friend! Thanks for this educational video. If only people would take a break from watching mindless Tik Tok videos this video would have millions of views.

[@steveconner794]

Can't wait for the netflex doc.

[@eriklerougeuh5772]

they discover the crust is floatting on melted rock, and to dig a hole in caramel texture isnt very efficient. the funny thing is the nearer of the core you are, the lighter you are since theres weightlessness at center, but you have also a tight pressure and extreme temperature too^^

[@Damian-cilr1]

extreme heat,thats probably what they discovered down there.

[@Mr.Peanut1986]

Opposite

[@robertdodd8169]

You can watch on NBC what’s done there. It has its own light source and prehistoric creatures

[@jcee2259]

No eyeballs reached the bottom. The heat at that depth made a pipe too hot to touch without injury. And the Soviets had no GoPro. What the Soviets did was to go fish for mineral samples using core extraction. I think the sound was extreme effects of heat on Soviet equipment.

[@WillieDuitt1]

That crew on Oak Island will probably go deeper and find the secrets of the universe in that money pit.

[@vinylexperience77]

LMFAO 🤣

[@neilspires7259]

@@vinylexperience77 L,M,F,A,O....Could this be coordinates for a new drill site at Oak island? Just have to use numerology and the team will definatly uncover somthing after this next comercial break....for sure this time...really just one more commercial break for three other Discovery channel shows and a Cialis ad and youre Gold...well not real gold in a pit or anything but you'll be good, it'll be cool I promise.

[@brianrusher3617]

12.754 km and 12,754 km are different by a factor of 1,000. Guess it's a small world indeed?

[@umoramayori]

Depending on country a( . ) gets used instead of a ( , ) to denote the tousands rankings. So for the US 12,000.50 Elsewhere 12.000,50

[@sandeeprevoju8169]

When the diameter of earth is 12000km , the hole should reach the centre by 6000 kms itself 🤔🤔

[@markgrender5638]

WE ARE NOT MONKEY COUSINS LIVING ON A 'WATER~BALL' !!!!!!!😂😂

[@TFOTLITBOK_P1_7]

😆. As soon as I heard him say the ISS is in "deep space" I heard enough. If there was a road going to it you could drive there in a few hours and that's nowhere near deep space 😂.

[@Durpanny]

I stopped at the same place haha. I'm like alright, I'm not sure this guy knows what deep space is.

[@Chatsu8o]

0:13 This may blow your mind, but the earth is NOT just 12.754 km around the equator.

[@drMaglov]

Diameter, not circumference!

[@Chatsu8o]

@@drMaglov I don't care if it's radius. 12 *POINT* 75 kilometers the size of something like a small town. It's a brisk morning hike. It's 7 minutes at highway speeds. The diameter of the earth at the equator is 12 *THOUSAND* 750 (if you're rounding) kilometers.

[@drMaglov]

@@Chatsu8o 12.750k is 12,75 thousand, what is problem?

[@Chatsu8o]

@@drMaglov He says it very clearly: 12.750 *kilometers* which is 12 750 *METERS*. The real number is 12.75 *thousand kilometers*, Or "Megameters". Which is 12 750 000 meters. That's a HUGE difference.

[@drMaglov]

@@Chatsu8o he said wrong but number displayed is right for diemeter. Point is used in some systems to separate thousands from hundreds.

[@ja6995]

Me wondering why a Koala was down there. Then I re read the title.

[@buttonman6262]

Thing is I have no hope they’d ever actually tell us if they found anything truly bizarre down there if they haven’t already.

[@kolgax2064]

They did though. They found that the rock composition and temperatures weren't what they expected, and fossilized microbes. That's pretty interesting.

[@buttonman6262]

@@kolgax2064 I didn’t say interesting, I said bizarre.

[@kolgax2064]

@@buttonman6262 True, but I think at least as far as the microbes go it still works.

[@pyerack]

I dunno man sometimes reality is disappointing.

[@thehuntermikipl1170]

I am sorry to disappoint you, but there is no magical realm of demons underground.

[@alexch3618]

Aside from the astronomical cost of moving material, would a cone shaped hole be far more feasible engineering wise? Basically, imagine an upside down pyramid (cone). When you want to go deeper, you simultaneously widen the hole while going deeper.

[@nedrow0]

No

[@jjtimmins1203]

Sure. Just would be a lot of work

[@summitresearch7992]

That would be an open pit mine. The largest, Bingham Canyon Mine in UT, which has been in production since 1906, is 1.2 km deep and 4 km wide. That gives us W=3.33D, so at the 30km thinnest part of the crust, you'd need a cone shaped hole 100km wide to reach the mantle, which requires removing 236 trillion cubic meters of earth.

[@benjamincoffman261]

No, and the drill head is kind of like that anyway. Usually three teeth head. That grind it up, with a pump behind it to get out debris that doesn't smooth against the walls.

[@alexch3618]

@@benjamincoffman261 Not quite. those drills bore a straight tunnel.

[@V0ID_beats]

The scary thing is compared to the earth's size this was only a scratch on the surface...

[@TheMythBuster25]

This has to be a record for most ads in a KZbin video. Good god, every two minutes

[@Wargasm54]

I didn’t realize I earth was barely 13 kilometers in diameter yet my moms house is 39 kilometers away🤔. I’ve spent my life going in circles!

[@maxpol007]

Our earth diameter is 12713.6 km (not 13km) and can can check it very easy.

[@Wargasm54]

It was a joke. The narrator claimed the earths diameter was “12.754 kilometers “ at 0:15 of the video. When in actuality it it twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four miles in diameter. Wake up.

[@achimwokeschtla7582]

@@Wargasm54 : In some countries/ languages it’s called/written 12.754 and in some countries/languages 12,754!

[@Stikkzz]

@@achimwokeschtla7582 he said 12 point 754 . you don't say the decimal seperator. got it now?

[@ihatethiswholedamplanet]

We all spend our lives just going in circles.

[@Doriamo]

How do they know how thick these layers are if no one has drilled down that far? The video mentioned they they knew the depth of the mantle but what do they use to measure that? Some kind of sonar?

[@SOLO-ts9mf]

Sonar won't reach that far it's all lies guess work at best

[@TheSteveSteele]

They’ve taken many measurements of earthquakes. Knowing the speed of sound through different mediums, they were able to determine, through triangulation, what mediums exists in the earth, at what depths and what they’re made of. Scientists also know that the center is very hot. So through a variety of sciences, they’ve learned a lot about what’s in the cores of our earth.

[@darkprinc979]

The same way they "know" that the Earth is billions of years old. They don't, they just make guesses and assume they're correct. That is pretty evident when the rock layers were not turning out as they expected. If there's one thing we should have learned from recent events, it's that there are plenty of things that can be presented as scientific fact whether they are true or not.

[@TheSteveSteele]

@@darkprinc979 You have issues with authority. That’s what your reply says to most people. I understand. If you have no means to understand or grasp the science of a subject then you might doubt the results. Again it’s understandable. However, instead of giving an alternate opinion, most likely an uneducated opinion, why don’t you just say, “I have no idea, I’m not versed in that subject.” Or don’t reply at all. Or, possibly admit that you have issues with authority and that your opinion is biased. That’s the honest approach. That’s what a scientist would do. Don’t you agree?

[@jimmyswollnuts7662]

@@TheSteveSteele I'm glad you represent "most people"

[@toscanoplaster5603]

I love this !!! 200 plus degrees

[@tomallen5837]

Somehow, I picture a Terry Gilliam Monty Pythonesque animation of Earth flittering away like a balloon running out of air, once we get down to the core.

[@pauldh62]

Of course it is easier for us to explore outer space than go to the Earth's core because any drilling piece would melt long before it got close.

[@mikeventurasailing]

Perhaps, but we can't go past the Van Allen belts at this stage. Almost everything you've ever seen from NASA was fake.

[@soundmind192]

@@mikeventurasailing That's why they calculated at a speed of 25 kph they could pass thru both belts safety. This limited their ships exposure to the radiation to more than survivable levels. Testing revealed @.018 rad or less which is way below acceptable levels. If someone believes NASA moon landings are fake then anything can be.

[@bobbylee2853]

The lava people are harsh.

[@tomc8157]

Exactly, space is easy, just a vacuum. Down is pressure which we can't handle those extremes.

[@tigrecito48]

imagine if you was skydiving and you fell into that hole... lol

[@Jestin612]

Hahaha

[@user-ox4ty5cl2q]

The core of the earth is semi hollow. It allows the earth to move. In the inner earth there are giant crystals braking down to form liquid earth and rock. These crystal are the fundamental structure to form constant matter.

[@RedneckdudeOG]

Scientist 1 “yo you wanna see how far we can dig” Scientist 2 “sure” A completely history of how this happened

[@RichardThomas1122]

Do you want to see more wells... kindly visit south india.... Heavy deep holes

[@michaellee258]

I like deep holes

[@RichardThomas1122]

@@michaellee258 me to

[@chigwom7894]

Ayo

[@Leifthrasir]

They stared into the abyss and realized that it was starting back at them, so they sealed the hole.

[@imagseer]

Drilled down to Hell like in the movie "9 Miles Down"?

[@petergray7576]

@@imagseer "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."- Frederich Nietzsche

[@nickmiller76]

@@petergray7576 It's okay thanks, I got the reference.

[@pauforcadellcampos4452]

They discovered that drill bits are expensive

[@otakarkuby3926]

everything we know about below the crust is theoritical. for exapmle its said that there is more water in the crust than on the surface.

[@erikkovacs3097]

I’ve been lied to about the diameter of the Earth my entire life!

[@dr.donkey9254]

This video got it wrong, it’s not 12km, it’s 12 thousand kilometres,

[@firethorn9134]

Your not the father of the son!

[@S.H.A.D.O.999]

Things are always smaller in real life 😁

[@erikkovacs3097]

@@S.H.A.D.O.999 That's not true!

[@justinstewart3248]

Holy shit me too! I was always taught it was about 25,000 miles in diameter.

[@911jediknight911]

I love the cut through image of our supposed core. Remember people, it is just theory.

[@nadarith1044]

Theory in science means a well-proven and backed-up model, and the model in the image was measured by what is essentially ultrasonic/seismic mapping on a monstrous scale using the returns of natural earthquakes and a global network of sensors

[@littlebittycustoms923]

@@nadarith1044 no

[@nadarith1044]

@@littlebittycustoms923 yes

[@DavidFerree54]

I learned today that the Earth is much smaller than I thought, and that I could walk and swim around the entire thing at the equator in about four hours. 0:18

[@annamosier1950]

wow good work

[@curve5746]

Back when following science actually meant something

[@drebelanski7869]

Great video. All this proves is that we clearly have no clue what's under us and all the charts you provided at the beginning are theories at best.

[@drebelanski7869]

@@Daniel-po8eb Agreed 👍 Theories are taught as as facts. And lord forbid you question it lol.

[@shaolin1derpalm]

Says someone using science right now to communicate that he doesn't trust science.... And in his everyday life all day

[@eugeneoisten9409]

@@Daniel-po8eb < so much fail, in a such an empty head.

[@eugeneoisten9409]

@@drebelanski7869....no theories are not taught as facts. So why don't you actually go and look up what a theory actually is.

[@drebelanski7869]

Omg the trolls are out lol. So many dumb people. Carry on little sheep.