Man’s deepest journey to the center of the earth was made by a petroleum company in Texas. The hole was dug in search of oil, but when none was found, the hole was plugged.
However, drillers worked for two years, at a cost of 3 million dollars, to reach a depth of 25,340 feet, or 4.8 miles, with a hole only 3 inches wide.
To better understand how deep that hole really was, try to imagine that 20 Empire State Buildings, piled one on top of the other, could be lowered into that hole!
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Kola went down 7.5 miles, which my grammer school math tells me is deeper than 4.8 miles.
Google Kola for the deepest hole dug in the earth.
It’s interesting.
The Russians did it.
@ the last poster
What does GRAMMER mean ?
All that information but where it is, no one seems to know.
I work in the oilfields of Texas. I am currently on a well that is 19,246 ft deep. I work on holes as deep as 27,000 feet on a regular basis.
This is a so called fact clearly written by and American that has no concept of the anything outside the borders of the USA.