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Is It Possible to Dig All the Way Through the Earth to the Other Side?

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Geophysicist: If I had been able to dig straight through the planet, I would have ended up in the Indian Ocean .

Earthâs outer layers exert pressure on layers underneath, and these forces increase steadily with depth.

Deep boreholes like this one can tell a lot about Earth 's interior, he says.

The deepest hole in the Earth is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in northwestern Russia , which extends 7.5 miles deep.

The slow movement of Earthâs mantle would eventually cause a borehole to bend and collapse.

Magma , gases and liquid metal deep in the Earth , under tremendous pressure, could explode upward through the borehole.

Current drilling technologies just arenât fast enough or durable enough to drill through the mantle and core.

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77

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73

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48

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informal

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English

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30

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long-living

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