Holes

dvh•35 minutes ago

Hover text is "If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do."

letmevoteplease•about 1 hour ago

The story of the hand-dug well: https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/utilities/woodin...

cbarrick•about 2 hours ago

Explain xkcd has links to the Wikipedia articles for each hole.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3266:_Holes

ks2048•about 1 hour ago

Site down?

The Wikipedia page on borehole doesn’t mention Deep Water Horizon at all.

ks2048•about 1 hour ago

And Wikipedia says this one is over 12,000m deep,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shaheen_Oil_Field

aw1621107•37 minutes ago

The >12km number is length, not depth:

> However, in May 2008, a new record for borehole length was established by the extended-reach drilling (ERD) well BD-04A, in the Al Shaheen oil field. It was drilled to 12,289 m (40,318 ft), with a record horizontal reach of 10,902 m (35,768 ft) in only 36 days.

AviationAtom•about 1 hour ago

Y'all done hugged it to death

B1FF_PSUVM•39 minutes ago

It was erroring out 12h ago.

WithinReason•about 2 hours ago

Lake Baikal sediment layer almost as deep as the Mariana Trench:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydr...

[...] and below this lies some 7 km (4.3 mi) of sediment, placing the rift floor some 8–11 km (5.0–6.8 mi) below the surface, the deepest continental rift on Earth.

card_zero•3 minutes ago

Oh right. Basically China has its own tectonic plate, with Baikal on the rift, top left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_plate I did not know that.

halamadrid•about 3 hours ago

What are all those oops for?

eastbound•about 1 hour ago

Lake Peigneur was swallowed by a whirlpool like in an anime, in a sad drilling that took away entire boats. The salt geologic bubble under the lake can absorb gigantic volumes of water, and a drilling for the exploitation of petrol initiated the hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

Cycl0ps•about 3 hours ago

collapses and floods it looks like. Here's the oops for the Pantai Remis mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ma0SVjMHA

bastawhiz•about 2 hours ago

Wow, that's pretty "oops" if I ever saw it!

neilv•about 1 hour ago

What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?

rolfus•about 1 hour ago

There's a documentary about that, in the form of the game 'Motherload'

https://www.crazygames.com/game/motherload

rationalist•34 minutes ago

I played that game way back when - I highly recommend it.

zokier•about 1 hour ago

conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/

Avicebron•about 3 hours ago

I forget how cool Lake Baikal is until it shows up randomly and I'm reminded to go look it up again.

lambdaone•about 2 hours ago

I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.

jadbox•about 2 hours ago

Did you not scroll over to see the even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?

lambdaone•about 2 hours ago

Yes, but there aren't any people in that one.

troupo•about 2 hours ago

> even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?

Kola Superdeep Borehole is not massive. It's a small cylindrical hole in the ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole#/media...

Mponeng is a massive continuously commercially operating mine with 5k workers

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