▲Holes(xkcd.com)
96 points by caminanteblanco 3 hours ago | 9 comments
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▲letmevoteplease 23 minutes ago
The story of the hand-dug well: https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/utilities/woodin...
▲neilv 15 minutes ago
What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?
▲zokier 11 minutes ago
conveniently there is a xkcd for that too https://xkcd.com/1330/
▲cbarrick 58 minutes ago
Explain xkcd has links to the Wikipedia articles for each hole.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3266:_Holes

▲AviationAtom 3 minutes ago
Y'all done hugged it to death
▲ks2048 8 minutes ago
Site down?

The Wikipedia page on borehole doesn’t mention Deep Water Horizon at all.

▲ks2048 4 minutes ago
And Wikipedia says this one is over 12,000m deep,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Shaheen_Oil_Field

▲lambdaone 1 hour ago
I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.
▲jadbox 1 hour ago
Did you not scroll over to see the even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?
▲lambdaone 1 hour ago
Yes, but there aren't any people in that one.
▲troupo 57 minutes ago
> even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?

Kola Superdeep Borehole is not massive. It's a small cylindrical hole in the ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole#/media...

Mponeng is a massive continuously commercially operating mine with 5k workers

▲Avicebron 1 hour ago
I forget how cool Lake Baikal is until it shows up randomly and I'm reminded to go look it up again.
▲WithinReason 44 minutes ago
Lake Baikal sediment layer almost as deep as the Mariana Trench:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydr...

[...] and below this lies some 7 km (4.3 mi) of sediment, placing the rift floor some 8–11 km (5.0–6.8 mi) below the surface, the deepest continental rift on Earth.

▲halamadrid 2 hours ago
What are all those oops for?
▲eastbound 29 minutes ago
Lake Peigneur was swallowed by a whirlpool like in an anime, in a sad drilling that took away entire boats. The salt geologic bubble under the lake can absorb gigantic volumes of water, and a drilling for the exploitation of petrol initiated the hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

▲Cycl0ps 2 hours ago
collapses and floods it looks like. Here's the oops for the Pantai Remis mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ma0SVjMHA

▲bastawhiz 43 minutes ago
Wow, that's pretty "oops" if I ever saw it!
▲tomlow 4 minutes ago
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