Holes

141 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by caminanteblanco
(xkcd.com)

24 Comments

dvh

an hour 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."

cbarrick

2 hours ago

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

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

ks2048

an hour ago

Site down?

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

ks2048

an hour ago

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

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

aw1621107

an hour 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.

Avicebron

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.

halamadrid

4 hours ago

What are all those oops for?

eastbound

2 hours 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

lambdaone

3 hours ago

I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.

jadbox

2 hours ago

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

lambdaone

2 hours ago

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