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a skinny stab into the planet's secrets, often deeper than mountains are tall
means A narrow, deep hole drilled vertically into the ground, usually to reach water, oil, gas, or to take samples of what lies beneath.
from A plain compound of English 'bore' and 'hole' — 'bore' coming from Old English 'borian,' to pierce or perforate, a word with deep Germanic roots related to the same notion of drilling through. So the name does exactly what the thing does: it's a bored hole, literally a hole made by boring.
- deepest ever
- Kola hole reached 12.2 km before heat stopped drilling
- too hot
- Rock got soft and gummy at 180°C
- water lifeline
- Billions drink from boreholes tapping hidden aquifers
- sound myth
- Spawned the viral hoax of recorded screaming hell
- narrow giant
- Kola's bottom was barely 23 cm wide
kola superdeep borehole — soviet union drilling project that reached 12,262 meters deep in 1989 on the kola peninsula
chikyu riser borehole — japanese scientific vessel drilling into the nankai trough, reached 2,466 meters below seafloor in 2012
wytch farm borehole — longest deviated borehole in the world at 11,453 meters, located in dorset england, operated since 1994