2007-01-31 19:21:23 · 10 answers · asked by risk99 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Well sonny i think u r on the right lines of thinkin....keep it up may be we'll hav a super hero to cheer for
2007-01-31 19:36:16 · answer #1 · answered by Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan-Maria Ramirez 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you did down far enough you'll start to get v hot, that's because the earth is like a egg shell, liquid on the inside with an outer core. Although scientists speculate that the core of the earth(about ten k diameter maybe solid uranium, plutonium or heavier elements. You could not dig down through the earth, you would melt when the lava burst out and consumed everything in it's path
2007-01-31 19:38:59 · answer #2 · answered by c k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth is big. Real big. So gi-normously huge that most people can't get their heads around it.
Short version: The crust, the layer on which you, me, and everyone else on this sphere live on, is a tiny portion of the world. There's maybe, what? 20 miles at most? of crust on a planet that's nearly 10k miles in diameter. Under the crust, there's liquid rock waiting to fill any temporary voids.
Strip mines may look like holes in the ground, but they can be filled. There's no way to make the Earth into a donut.
2007-01-31 19:27:43 · answer #3 · answered by kx_wx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mining and quarrying removes only a tiny proportion of the earth's crust. Even when we have consumed all our fossil fuels and all the useful ores and minerals we can find there would only by a tiny fraction of a percent of ground actually taken away.
In most cases the holes left by digging are filled, either with water or, where the councils can't find anywhere else to dump stuff, with domestic waste.
2007-01-31 20:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by tcz30 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But if you were to think, where did all the earth go to when people dig it up? It's on earth so we would just have to place it back but with a little dent because the resources are above the grounds.
2007-01-31 19:41:36 · answer #5 · answered by Gaara of the Sand 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much all the crap we throw in the landfills could fill up the mines and holes if you want to move the stuff. We are really bad at re-cycling stuff if you look at the big picture.
2007-01-31 19:31:17 · answer #6 · answered by Carl P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bit early for me to get the old brain around this one yet,but it seems as we take the raw materials out of the earth we just replace it with are are rubbish.so no hole just land fill sites.
2007-01-31 19:42:28 · answer #7 · answered by Chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's why you get mining subsidence up north.
2007-01-31 19:49:49 · answer #8 · answered by Charles D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes but then we do have landfills so i should imagine it evens itself out
2007-02-01 01:43:29 · answer #9 · answered by dottydog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pretty much.
2007-01-31 19:26:55 · answer #10 · answered by tickTickTICK 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋