jmichlins:
watching one documentary someday about tiatonic plates *not sure of the spelling so pardon me*. One team of scientists went to an area they believed to be the place where the earth cores met and are continually moving, the place is in San Andreas there they dug the longest hole on earth according to them. Thing is the hole is just about 3in maximum so not much to cause trouble. Explorer you will do well do write a thread about earthquakes and tremors

Tectonic Nobody knows it all.

musicwriter:


Remember, this is an imaginary journey (not a real journey) as the temperature down the earth is too hot and can't allow physically going anything beyond 100 C.

However, to answe your question, yes, if you are able to withstand the high temperatures and keep digging, you'll come out at another country!.

This is because the earth is round like an orange- actually oval like a rugby ball. If you use a stick and pierce down through an orange, the stick would come out at another end. Its as simple as that.

Herald9 this is correct..

tk4rd:
You will only get a percentage of the whole gains.

only a percentage?? Shea u dey inside dey do dis kin negotiation

ychris:
by the time molten magma erupts frm the core and hit u big time. u go knw

lemme keep my shovel cloee

Princejebs:

Busted....these guy smart die

bros....abeg I no nid ua hlp!!! abeg dis na one man job!!! tnx 4 ua concerns!!!! small time now u go hear..."bros mk I kip u company"

tsamson:


sharp guy

tnx for hailing me but abeg na only one person fit stay outside. u wan enta inside go touch d gold?? u r free

pls,is there any air in Mars or in other planets?

and I hear about black holes and black matters in space, what are they?

johnydon22:


Herald9 this is correct..

It's not even compulsory to dig through the earth crust vertically to burst-out to another country, we can as well dig diagonally, avoiding the crust and arrive elsewhere.

M2dX:
and I hear about black holes and black matters in space, what are they?

No one has really confirmed weither blackholes,wormholes or whiteholes exist,they're purely hypothetical...see what starwars has caused!

phranq:



I will be outside making sure dat u get enough air n water!!! if u nid food just shake d rope....

by far the funniest comment on Nairaland!

FLStudioGuy:
Reminds me of the film "The core". A must watch!

Please where can I find it, searched for it on YouTube, it isnt available again.

ogbenicodes:



by far the funniest comment on Nairaland!

u also want to lobby to stay outside with me?? Oga...na for inside d gold dey no be outside....sun too much outside.

ogbenicodes:



Please where can I find it, searched for it on YouTube, it isnt available again.

Use showbox or megabox HD for Android

phranq:



only a percentage?? Shea u dey inside dey do dis kin negotiation

You see yourself naa.??
Make I dey inside the hole dey risk, and you dey top dey coordinate.??

tk4rd:
You see yourself naa.??
Make I dey inside the hole dey risk, and you dey top dey coordinate.??

I cnt rmba saying dat I want d gold!!!! u go do abi u no go do abi mk I cut d rope ni??

phranq:



I cnt rmba saying dat I want d gold!!!! u go do abi u no go do abi mk I cut d rope ni??

If you no want the gold, den wetin u want naa.?? You dey give me ur food inside the hole just like dat.??

[size=18pt]Does that mean no one can break the record, someone has to do it man. After-all NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. Lets go there!!!


But sincerely speaking, God is awesome. If white men with all their machinery and advanced technology could not dare dig from one point of the earth to another, not even to the center at best, it shows how limited we are in capacity. God is awesome[/size]

tk4rd:
If you no want the gold, den wetin u want naa.?? You dey give me ur food inside the hole just like dat.??

mk I kip my shovel close sef

phranq:


mk I kip my shovel close sef

Wetin you wan take the shovel do.?

tk4rd:
Wetin you wan take the shovel do.?

(whistling unknown tune)......picks d shovel

Whew! This thread is giving me palpitations mehn! Whew, my vivid mind thinking one silly person would want to drill to find the promised gold...I hate horror films mehn.

phranq:



(whistling unknown tune)......picks d shovel

Hmmmmmm.. *Climbing out already**

tk4rd:
Hmmmmmm.. *Climbing out already**

hahahaha......I don died!!!! u dnt wana hama?? jewman

bid4rich:
[size=18pt]Does that mean no one can break the record, someone has to do it man. After-all NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. Lets go there!!!


But sincerely speaking, God is awesome. If white men with all their machinery and advanced technology could not dare dig from one point of the earth to another, not even to the center at best, it shows how limited we are in capacity. God is awesome[/size]

bid4rich....datz a nice moniker! I'm concerned about d "rich" part....u wana get rich? den u hv to get in dwn dia n grab d gold!!!! raw gold!!! owned by nobody!!!

phranq:


hahahaha......I don died!!!! u dnt wana hama?? jewman

Three Bags Full

I need to buy shovel&digger. Starting from my backyard.

ben1daEbiri:
I don't believe you of all people can't explain that,an anverage chemistry/geography student should be able to explain that without difficulties.All (or most) precious stones/germs ONLY form on high temperature and pressure environments were carbon thrives,the same reason also explain why they contain carbon either in minute or large quantities be it pure or in an impure state;so because of their formation processes,they can't help but be hard,strong and high melting points.ANYTHING formed in such environment will most likely possess the afformentioned characteristics.

Your ans above explains the formation of Precious Stones but not for Gold. Gold isn't formed on Earth , rather in SupreNovas, Now as to why they got so deep into the earth, It is because of density. The Gold available on earth is from supernova explosion and deposited on earth when the earth was still molten. So due to its density it sank deep into the earth just like heavy metals such as Nickel.

Explorers:


That's possible, but i believe advanced machineries will handle that. I think the problem is the heat, if not they would have drilled to the core with advanced equipments. By the time they drill for 5 to 10years , they will get to the core.

Are you forget the pressure it will squash the machinery

Explorers:
Everyone has wanted to dig a hole down to the center of the Earth at some time in their lives.

My friends and I tried to dig down as far as we could go. I never told them my goal, but in my heart, we were going all the way through. In the end we actually got down about 2 meters, but the bottom kept filling in with water. Of course, digging down to the centre of the Earth was always out of reach.

In order to be able to dig down to the center of the Earth, my friends and I would have needed to dig our way through 6,378km of rock, mantle, and iron. Most of this journey would be through temperatures hot enough to melt rock, getting as high as 6,726°C at the center.

So if you dug through the deepest ocean floor you could get about 0.1% of the way to the core.

The first 35 km or so of digging would be through the outer crust of the Earth. Assuming we could actually get through the solid rock, and keep water from filling back into our super deep hole, we might actually be able to make some progress through this.

The deeper you go, the higher the temperature. One of the deepest mines in the world is the TauTona gold mine in South Africa, a mere 3.6 kilometers deep.
Even though this just scratches the surface of the Earth, temperatures at the bottom of TauTona already get as high as 60°C.

Once you break through the crust, you’re into the Earth’s mantle. At this point, you’re looking at about 3,000 km of rock heated to such a high temperature that it’s a liquid.

Volcanoes are points on the Earth when magma from the mantle breaks through to the surface. How we’d dig through that, i have no idea. But let’s say we could. Then we’d break through into the core of Earth.

This region extends for another 3,500 km, and its comprised almost entirely of iron, with a little nickel, and some other trace metals. And it’s even hotter than the mantle above it. This is where temperatures get to over 6,000°C.

Assuming we could bore through the iron, and could withstand the heat, we could get down to the center of the Earth. At this point, we would have traveled 6,378 km to complete our journey. And then another 6,378 km to get through the other side and visit the friends in China.



Source: http://www.universetoday.com/15020/how-far-down-is-the-center-of-the-earth/

Lol Are we falling through Chinese Sky into China