Scientists to drill down to Earth's mantle

LOL Yep just take a holiday in Hawaii and Bobs your kettle full of magma. LOL and Lol again.

Is this a good idea? Have they thought it through? Will it even work? I have a bad feeling about this. I do too. It just seems like an unwise thing to do. Aren't we mucking with the planet enough already? Perhaps we should focus on an exit strategy before doing something like this...

WOW! This is gonna be SO COOL!

I think it will be a major disaster, since there is a big pressure and very hot underneath, it is like creating a volcano that will explode suddenly. I mean volcano are created by the earth's natural vaporization process of its hot mineral. What they will do is a destruction of our mother earth.

Totally agree with post #4.

Wow to retrieve what? Honestly we do know enough about the earth to not give a damn about drilling to the core. All that money can easily be spent on exploring our solar system and others.

Hmhm... they are scientist that dream to resurrect Tesla's work... TO create clean and free energy for the benefit of nature and our kids future and to finaly get rid of archaic use of oil and dead plants for energy, to stop world hunger to stop war Discover the solar system!!! etc, etc...(WEll you see the point) But no,instead took all this money to garbadge to do some kind of expedition that no one care about and that won't change a thing.

I swear, this is the most depressing thread I have read in a long time. This expedition is a reasonable experiment with genuine scientific merit. It will not destroy the world. It will not even destroy part of the ocean. It will not cost billions of dollars. It will not deny funding from space exploration, cancer cures, or anything else. It is also a mistake to narrowly focus all scientific funding on a single specific area. Finally, Tesla did not discover a viable source of ``free energy''. I also find it quite disappointing that people think that a genius inventor and experimentalist like Te... [More]

This reminds me of the Doctor Who episode The Hungry Earth. It's even the same year, 2020.

Wasn't this Dr. Evil's plan? Nibs