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I wonder if we just went down we might find infinite resources.

Instead of flying 250k miles to the moon, just drill 1 mile downwards.



Plenty of mines are deeper than a mile, several deeper than two miles.

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

It gets somewhat hot, I've heard. The Iceland Deep Drilling Project went a bit deeper (still not 3 miles) and hit magma, which is more interesting as an energy source than as a mine.

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

#BoreholesIHaveKnown


For some small finite sub part of infinite .. maybe.

Even if we allow concave Hohlwelttheorie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth#Concave_Hollow_Ea...

https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:14770298

the "infinite resources" aren't realisable due to asymptopic hyperbolic geometry.


The potash mine under the city I live in is 1600 meters deep.




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