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aik on Oct 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle

If the hole is only 30cm wide, and it's going to take 8 years to complete (complete in 2020), isn't there a decent chance that there will be movement in the plates that will close up the hole?

hollerith on Oct 2, 2012 [–]

If they take care not to drill through any faults, which I expect they will, then the whole hole will move as one.

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