Hole Drilled to Bottom of Earth's Crust: Scientists Find Elusive Gabbro

[On the Road]

Scientists Find the Elusive Gabbro
Bjorn Carey, LiveScience Staff Writer
Thu Apr 20, 3:00 PM ET

It's not quite the center of the Earth, but scientists have drilled nearly a mile into the planet's ocean crust, retrieving samples from the pristine layer of igneous rock for the first time.

Scientists onboard the drilling ship JOIDES Resolution in the Pacific Ocean, about 500 miles west of Costa Rica, bored into the planet's crust and recovered black rocks called gabbro from intact crust.


Gabbro is a dense type of rock formed from the slow cooling of magma chambers beneath mid-ocean ridges. Along with gabbro, the team hauled up a complete stratified core of the overlaying crust.



http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060420_earth_drill.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Sounds like the perfect place to toss the entire BFEE.

[rkc3]

4. Let's hope it's a big hole.

[Lautremont]

2. He's not so elusive, if you look:

[Ezlivin]

3. But some scientists don't believe in gabbro

Their voices need to be heard.

And the voices of the alchemists, too.

:sarcasm:

[Ian David]

5. They might re-awaken the Nephilium (Genesis 6:1-4)

GEN 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/gen/6.html#4


"And there we saw the giants ... And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."

This statement may have been figurative, hyperbole, typical biblical exaggeration, or an actual description of the sons of Anak, in which case they must have been about 100 meters tall. These are the same giants (the Nephilium) that resulted when the "sons of God" mated with "the daughters of men in Gen.6:4.
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/gen/6.html#4

Of course these superhuman god-men should have been destroyed in the flood.

So what are they doing still alive? 13:33
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/num/13.html#33

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Cool! "Project Mohole" (seeking the Mohorovic discontinuity) lives!

I remember that from years ago, thought it was discontinued.

Just googled "Mohole", found lots of articles. Apparently the technology of the day wasn't up to the challenge. Science lurches onward.

[On the Road]

7. I Remember the Mohole

Never knew what happened to it. For that matter, it wasn't clear to me from the article whether the substance they captured was liquid or solid at the time.

[sutz12]

8. There's a lot of energy down there.

The heat available at great depths in the Earth's crust and near the mantle should be harnessable for use at the surface. Virtually unlimited power.

[halwesten]

9. found what???

*whew*

I thought you were going to say they found Jimmy Hoffa!