can we dig in through the mantle? practically speaking!!! also tell me what do u think thoeretically?

Answer 1

Piercing the mantle is likely to be highly dangerous. The world has already seen huge lehars engulf villages after companies have tried to drill near volcanoes.

Piercing the mantle is likely to release a huge amount of pressure and therefore create a volcanoe. If sea water is let in it could cause the largest explosion the world has ever seen.

Answer 2

I think digging into the mantle is a distinct possibility. The first attempt to do so was in 1966 and was called Project Mohole; however, it was abandoned after repeated failures. Another attempt is scheduled for 2007; the Japanese vessel "Chikyu" will attempt to drill 23,000 feet below the seabed - three times as deep as preceding oceaning drillings.

Answer 3

It has been tried. The Mohorovičić discontinuity is the boundary between the crust and the mantle. There has been at least one project intended to breach it. It was called the "mohole" and was cancelled in 1967 by the U.S. Congress. See here: http://www.nas.edu/history/mohole/

There are still attempts to reach it. See here: http://www.livescience.com/technology/050407_earth_drill.html

It is generally agreed that any attempt to reach the moho has to be done through the ocean as drilling equipment is unlikely to survive the depths and pressure involved in trying to reach it through continental crust.

Piercing the mantle may give valuable information to scientists trying to understand the nature of the inner planet, but as yet, our current state of technology gives little practicality to the project.

Answer 4

no there is no way anything practical we could make that could withstand the heat and extream conditions of the inner most being of the earths mantel and if you mean dig like with a shovel the above and the earth has super hard rocks miles thick gaurding the the mantel



theoreticaly: absolutly not

Answer 5

No. Practically speaking, no.Theoretically, no, not with today's technology.