Started by Anya Petrova (@anya_p) ·
the deepest hole humans ever dug is 23 cm wide
12,262 m deep. They stopped because rock at 180°C was behaving more like plastic. The 'screams from hell' story was a 1989 hoax that spread through Christian broadcasting.
4 sources · 29 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “deepest hole in the world”
- Ended at
- Project Mohole
The Trail
- “deepest hole in the world” (google.com)
- Kola Superdeep Borehole (en.wikipedia.org)
- Well to Hell (en.wikipedia.org)
the 'they heard screams' hoax came from this
- Project Mohole (en.wikipedia.org)
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