2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault

iandoh writes "Cool research: Geologists at Stanford University and the US Geological Survey have drilled a 2.5 mile deep borehole into the San Andreas fault. They've extracted over one ton of rock from 2 miles down, and they'll be installing sensors down the length of the borehole."

Lex Luthor is Pleased

[hedgemage]

Oh, sure, just do his work for him. Why not install some nuclear warheads down there while you're at it.

Don't let them fool you!

[Black Parrot]

It's probably the CIA trying to recover a lost Soviet rock diver.

faulty logic.

[User 956]

They've extracted over one ton of rock from 2 miles down, and they'll be installing sensors down the length of the borehole.

I wouldn't want to be the guy who's in charge of monitoring sensory data from something called "the bore hole". that sounds like a really tedious job.

About time

[Xeth]

I feel our economy will be well served by the extra 6 energy.

Installing sensors?

[baffled]

They should dump a few tons of super glue down there. That'll fix her.

Re:Lex Luthor is Pleased

[Mateo_LeFou]

Wasn't it Christopher Walken? And wasn't it TNT?

Re:Lex Luthor is Pleased

[Anonymous Coward]

Because the hole's not big enough. Sure it's deep. But your typical underground nuclear blast involved drilling a hole 6000 feet deep and 10 or 15 feet in diameter. Now that's a hole. Something you can fall into....

Re:talc as a lubricant

[dustwun]

Does a reply to this involving 'Lubing the bore hole" get modded as funny, or troll?.. you be the judge....

Dear God, No!

[cmcguffin]

Keep the Mole Men down there where they belong!

Re:And soon, they'll have...

[BiggerIsBetter]

Can't keep the earthquake inducing villains straight.

There are gay earthquake inducing villains? Who knew?

Re:Lex Luthor is Pleased

[SpectreBlofeld]

Time to start investing in midwestern property - it'll soon be prime beachfront real estate!

2.5 miles down?

[jollyreaper]

No, thank you. I'm not checking there for a hidden package.

Re:The fools!

[tjstork]

Hopefully the United States.

That would be cool. We Yanks could gather 'round the edge of our continent and piss on the rest of you from low earth orbit. So, instead of bitching about 50 million Republicans pissing on the world in some figurative sense, you would get splashed in the face by the real deal!

Re:Only 2.5 miles?

[doktorjayd]

Modern oil wells are drilled as deep as 6 miles or more now.

heh,

and modern measures are in metric.

Re:Lex Luthor is Pleased

[iendedi]

Oh, sure, just do his work for him. Why not install some nuclear warheads down there while you're at it.

Dick Cheney is Lex Luthor.

Re:Lex Luthor is Pleased

[Spacejock]

No no. Drill a bunch more holes, just like the tear-off line on toilet paper, and California will be safe forever.

After all, did you ever see toilet paper actually rip along the holes?

Brilliant

[Whiteox]

Idiots!
What a dumb move.
Geophysicist Nerd 1: "Hey let's drill a hole 2.5 miles into a known fault!"
Geophysicist Nerd 2: "OK! Let's do it."
drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill drill
Nerd 2: "Now what?"
Nerd 1: "Ummm... How about we put some sensors down there?"
Nerd 2: "Hey! Why not!!!"
Nerd 1: "Errmmm... Shit! We've only got 1000ft of wire!"
Nerd 2: "Damn!"
.
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"Hey! What's that really hot red stuff bubbling out of the hole?"

Re:Lubricant

[hernyo]

Lubing the 2.5 mile hole, then pushing the drill down to the bottom of it and taking it out, repeating many times - now THAT is going to cause a HUGE quake!

Muhahahahaaaa (I guess I'm going to be modded down)

Re:Lex Luthor is Pleased

[Zaatxe]

[...] but given that the area in question is up to a mile above sea-level, [...]

Have you fogotten that global warming will rise the level of the oceans?