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Title: Jules Verne
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 15, 2003, 01:22:50 pm
**** me sideways... why did they think of this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3021255.stm) after I quit me geology degree?
Title: Jules Verne
Post by: tEAbAG on May 15, 2003, 01:36:11 pm
Watch them screw it up and split the world in half:p
Title: Jules Verne
Post by: Martinus on May 15, 2003, 02:00:03 pm
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Originally posted by tEAbAG
Watch them screw it up and split the world in half:p

[color=66ff00]*thinks of the scientist planet scene in Anachronox*

Yeah, that might suck.

Interesting idea though, reminds me a bit of NASA's plans to use a drilling robot to penetrate into a prehistoric ice covered lake. Don't know if they ever carried it out though.
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Title: Jules Verne
Post by: kode on May 15, 2003, 02:59:23 pm
funny coincidence... they're showing a mini series version of Journey to the Center of the Earth on tv here in sweden today...

and, interesting link.
Title: Jules Verne
Post by: Sesquipedalian on May 15, 2003, 02:59:59 pm
Erm, how exactly is this probe supposed to survive the heat and stupendous pressure?  I mean, think about what water does at depth.  Now imagine superheated molten rock.  A solid diamond globe wouldn't last long in that.
Title: Jules Verne
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 15, 2003, 03:28:37 pm
But... it'll get him (http://www.mopedarmy.com/) an award!
Title: Jules Verne
Post by: Nico on May 15, 2003, 04:29:57 pm
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Erm, how exactly is this probe supposed to survive the heat and stupendous pressure?  I mean, think about what water does at depth.  Now imagine superheated molten rock.  A solid diamond globe wouldn't last long in that.

actually, that's where diamonds are created, mind you :p.
to answer to your question, tho, isn't the melted iron supposed to protect it?
Title: Jules Verne
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 15, 2003, 06:55:45 pm
The real question is, what kind of equipment can you fit inside, say, a softball that can pick up minor chemical and heat differences through several feet of molten iron?
Title: Jules Verne
Post by: Sandwich on May 16, 2003, 07:55:59 am
:wtf:

And I just saw this (http://www.thecoremovie.com/) on Monday...
Title: Jules Verne
Post by: Sesquipedalian on May 17, 2003, 02:15:05 am
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Originally posted by Venom

actually, that's where diamonds are created, mind you :p.
Well, obviously. :rolleyes::) But when the probe gets below that depth?
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to answer to your question, tho, isn't the melted iron supposed to protect it?
I don't believe so.  The molten iron was there because it is a heavy element and would sink, rather than because it would offer any protection.  Being in a liquid state as such, molten iron would provide no resistance to the crushing pressure.