The USSR tried to dig through the earth, why did it stop at 12,262 meters?

Updated on science 2024-06-16
8 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    In the last century, both the Americans and the Soviet Union wanted to dig through the earth, and the Suerguan people in order to catch up with the United States, the first to put into action, at first the project progressed relatively smoothly, but when the digging reached 12,262 meters, it suddenly gave up, why is this? You must know that the radius of the earth is about 6371 kilometers, and at best only 1% of the earth is excavated.

    When 12,262 meters were reached, drilling in the Kola ultra-deep well stopped completely. Why? Some say that the gates of hell have been dug up, and scientists have heard terrible sounds from hell! So what are the facts?

    According to Nikolaev's article published in the Reports of the Academy of Sciences, natural activity in the subsurface causes slight high-frequency sound waves to be generated inside the Kola ultra-deep well, but it is often mixed with other "sounds".

    After scientific research, authoritative experts found that this "sound" came from a nearby mining company. An inadvertent "heard" of an expert indicates that the company's mining equipment is operated for about eight hours in three shifts a day.

    Some people say that it is the excavation of alien creatures, and the excavation and excavation led to a huge incident**, and the former Soviet Union set a no-fly zone 20 kilometers around. In general, the more you talk about it, the more evil it becomes, the more outrageous it is. Not to be believed.

    Due to a shortage of funds, drilling of the Kola ultra-deep well was terminated, and the key reason for this was a shortage of funds. The former Soviet plan was to drill 15 kilometers underground, but the further back it went, the more it was spent, and it was really a bottomless pool. In addition, with the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, the collapse of the former Soviet Union and a series of external factors, the Kola ultra-deep well finally reached 12,262 meters, and it was impossible to drill it again.

    Someone else said that the Kola ultra-deep well was drilled more than 10,000 meters underground, is it about to penetrate the earth? It's a shame that drilling stops.

    In fact, the Kola ultra-deep well is only 12 kilometers deep at a depth of 12,262 meters, while the radius of the Earth is 6,371 kilometers. Not to mention through the earth, the Kola ultra-deep well has not even encountered the bottom of the earth's crust. The average thickness of the terrestrial crust is about 40 km, and even if the crust is thin and 17 km thick, the Kola ultra-deep well is untouchable.

    However, as a strange product of the Cold War era, the Kola ultra-deep well was not for nothing. When the Soviets drilled to a depth of nearly 10,000 meters, they drilled to the ** layer and the diamond layer, and the gold content of this part of the formation reached 80 grams per ton, while the gold content of ordinary formations did not exceed 10 grams per ton.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    The main thing is to dig to this depth, there is no money left, so it has to be suspended.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    This is because if you continue to dig in this case, there will be some problems, and it will already cause a lot of damage to the environment.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    It was a project that could not be completed at all, and it required a lot of human and financial resources, so the project had to be stopped.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union became the only two remaining superpowers in the world at that time, and they represented the game of capitalism and socialism respectively. In the game between the two countries, it includes a contest between heaven and earth. The United States planned to devote all its national strength to developing space science and technology, but the Soviet Union, after seeing that the United States was concentrating on developing space science and technology, decided to go against the United States and "explore the earth."

    At that time, the Soviet Union had a simple idea, that is, to dig through the earth to see what secrets existed in the center of the earth, but when they reached 12,262 meters, they stopped, what did they see? There are many different answers, but the closest thing to the truth is that Soviet scientists found that after digging to 12,262 meters, the drill bit was badly damaged due to the increase in temperature, and it often became more difficult to dig even one meter down. In the end, due to economic pressure, technical reasons, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was decided not to continue digging.

    However, it is also rumored that when I dug to 12,262 meters, I heard some terrible sounds from deep underground, such as human screams, crying, and so on. Many people think that this is digging to hell, so many people are firmly opposed to continuing to dig. But in this regard, some scientists say that this may be a natural sound caused by the air underground, and it is not something that has been dug into hell.

    But there is no doubt that these "rumors" still frightened many of the people in charge of the excavation work, and the excavation work was stalled for a while.

    In addition, the political situation in the Soviet Union at that time was extremely unstable, and the excavation work itself did not have much scientific value, and even because of the repeated damage of the drill bit, it brought a lot of economic burden, and finally the excavation work was completely stopped with the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, the various "supernatural legends" that occurred during the excavation still spread and became a topic of conversation after dinner.

    In fact, there have been many legends about the "inner world", such as an underground corridor called "Agarta" in ancient Indian books, which translates to "the deep world of the earth" in Sanskrit. Legend has it that it leads to the underworld and holds unimaginable treasures, while some scholars believe it may have been an underground corridor that crossed the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and connected all the continental plates. These legends also attracted the interest of many explorers at the time.

    According to related reports, in March 1942, Roosevelt of the United States received a couple from the archaeological team returning from Mexico, they were David Lam and his wife. Roosevelt met them because they claimed that their archaeological team had encountered the Lacanton people, a branch of Mayan descent, in the jungles of Chiapas, Mexico, and had surrounded them and demanded that they leave immediately. The Lacanton people are guarding one of the entrances to the underground corridor.

    Another example is La LianliangIn 1960, the Peruvian expedition team found an underground corridor thousands of kilometers long in the Andes, and the corridor is suspected to lead to Chile and Colombia. At that time, Peru** chose to close the entrance to this tunnel due to various considerations, and the area was also rated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Because he was hindered when he continued to dig, and there was a strange sound, he stopped digging.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Mainly because the USSR ran out of money, there were not enough funds, so the excavation was suddenly stopped.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Because when digging to this depth, there are some strange phenomena, and the heat is very high, so it prevents people from continuing to dig.

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