<story><title>Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock</title><url>https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2023/07/pay-dirt-for-ice-core-scientists-in-east-greenland-as-they-reach-bedrock/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdfghswe</author><text>Can&amp;#x27;t believe they don&amp;#x27;t show a photo of what appears to be a 10 meter in diameter, 2.7km deep hole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealPomax</author><text>Ice cores are a few inches across. The photo at the top of the article is not of the drill hole but of the hole they had to dig in the snow to get to the ice they actually drilled.&lt;p&gt;See the photo of the final ice core [1] to see how miniscule the actual drill hole is.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;science.ku.dk&amp;#x2F;english&amp;#x2F;press&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;pay-dirt-for-ice-core-scientists-in-east-greenland-as-they-reach-bedrock&amp;#x2F;billedinformationer&amp;#x2F;20230721_SteffTrevor__photo_Sepp_Kipfstuhl_.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;science.ku.dk&amp;#x2F;english&amp;#x2F;press&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;pay-dirt-for-i...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock</title><url>https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2023/07/pay-dirt-for-ice-core-scientists-in-east-greenland-as-they-reach-bedrock/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdfghswe</author><text>Can&amp;#x27;t believe they don&amp;#x27;t show a photo of what appears to be a 10 meter in diameter, 2.7km deep hole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FredPret</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a bright future in big holes.&lt;p&gt;Imagine what we can get our hands on if we could find a nice, cheap way to dig 10+ km down all over the place. The mantle is 2000+km thick. Our deepest mines are 3-4 km deep.&lt;p&gt;We could also harvest a ton of heat this way - and maybe even use it for garbage disposal. Master Of Orion 2 had the Deep Core Mines and Core Waste Dumps - maybe that&amp;#x27;s the way to go!</text></comment>