Today in the aim of sharing things I want to introduce you to the 'well to hell', the world's deepest dug hole. And since it's not doing much currently, me being the genius that I am has come up with a truly stupid use for it..
Introducing the Kola Superdeep Borehole
Welcome to the world's biggest borehole, dug to investigate a) how far you could dig a dirty great hole and b) For SCIENCE! And while Russian scientists learnt tonnes of what you'll find when you dig a dirty great hole deep in to the earth (including layers and how hot it gets down there) after two decades of chipping away things really started to heat up (literally, down past 12 kms they were facing temperatures of over 180 degrees.) In 1992 they decided that it wasn't feasible any more to continued the dig and so...er...put a cover on it.
'Do we need to fill it?'
'No sir! If we just screw this plate over the top and walk away, job is done!'
'Soldier, you are genius!'
And so now it sits there, looked like a rusted part of a 80's car imported from the saltiest part of Japan. Oh and once it was capped off it looks like Superman dropped an entire factory block all over it from a great height for some reason.
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| Undo these bolts and it's under the lid! |
Introducing the Kola Superdeep Borehole
Welcome to the world's biggest borehole, dug to investigate a) how far you could dig a dirty great hole and b) For SCIENCE! And while Russian scientists learnt tonnes of what you'll find when you dig a dirty great hole deep in to the earth (including layers and how hot it gets down there) after two decades of chipping away things really started to heat up (literally, down past 12 kms they were facing temperatures of over 180 degrees.) In 1992 they decided that it wasn't feasible any more to continued the dig and so...er...put a cover on it.
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| What it looked like when they packed their long handled bucket and spade away |
'Do we need to fill it?'
'No sir! If we just screw this plate over the top and walk away, job is done!'
'Soldier, you are genius!'
And so now it sits there, looked like a rusted part of a 80's car imported from the saltiest part of Japan. Oh and once it was capped off it looks like Superman dropped an entire factory block all over it from a great height for some reason.
So now we have this 12km+ deep hole that nobody seems to be using...
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| Steve's been there and loves it! |
Okay so it's still some kind of tourist attraction to this day but it's not like you can pop open the lid and through torches down to see how far the light can do. And after you've seen one rusted giant borehole cover you've kind of seen them all so here is what I'm proposing:
We take this..
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| Baking soda, not Colombian pure straight from the rock. |
Then add this:
And create: THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BAKING SODA AND VINEGAR VOLCANO!!!
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| Like this but on a magnificent scale. |
Genius!
Okay so logistically speaking, you're going to need a LOT of baking soda. If my math is semi correct (and feel free to correct me if it's not) then we're going to need at least 600000000cm x 23cmR worth of soda to fill it half way...and then about as much vinegar to get things going.
Of course we can't just stand next to it and pour the vinegar in without drowning in said super cleaning explosion so it'll have to be poured from a great high...like from the Space Station Mir. How we get that much vinegar up there to begin with is anyone's guess but I'm an ideas man, not someone who sweats the small stuff.
(Also we may have to evacuate the area too beforehand, just in case. Safety first when we make the worlds largest baking soda volcano. No idea how much space we need...possibly quite a lot.)
Now after all that does anyone have any connections to the baking soda/vinegar industry and or the keys to the Mir space station?
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