Kola Superdeep Borehole: The Deepest Hole Ever Made

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  • čas přidán 26. 04. 2020
  • A video about a really deep hole. But it's actually interesting.
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  • @llamasugar5478
    @llamasugar5478 Před 3 lety +2172

    Russian wife: “How was work today?”
    Russian worker: “Boring.”
    I’ll see myself out.

  • @IkeFoxbrush
    @IkeFoxbrush Před 4 lety +1817

    Imagine being the devil, minding your own business, and all of a sudden the Russians are drilling through the ceiling of your workplace...

    • @sabotabby3372
      @sabotabby3372 Před 4 lety +117

      Well they executed god in the 1920s by shooting into the sky, makes sense the devil would have better security

    • @JonathanWrightSA
      @JonathanWrightSA Před 4 lety +93

      Knock knock, it's the Russian Orthodox Church and they're here to exorcise (evict?) the devil himself from his premises!

    • @salvadordollyparton666
      @salvadordollyparton666 Před 4 lety +26

      No manners...

    • @kroneyt1493
      @kroneyt1493 Před 4 lety +20

      Imagine being the scientists doing the drilling, finding a large cavity and seeing an eye of the devil looking back up at you, pissed off that you just nicked the top of his head with your drill. What would you do if something that large and something that powerful wanted to kill you?

    • @darksnipedflyingmadness6830
      @darksnipedflyingmadness6830 Před 3 lety +63

      @@kroneyt1493 I would be more pissed that I just proved that religion is actually right and that eternal purgatory is a real thing

  • @swgohgretchen5966
    @swgohgretchen5966 Před 3 lety +429

    That message at the end about not using a clickbait image: super classy, and thank you. Liked and subscribed.

    • @muppeteer
      @muppeteer Před 3 lety +3

      The sort of internet search that can irreparably ruin your search history

    • @zazugee
      @zazugee Před 3 lety +2

      google image showed some dumb pictures of modern large open sky coal mines xD

    • @patrickr6024
      @patrickr6024 Před 3 lety +6

      I found it more interesting because it looks so innocuous.

    • @caseywhite8969
      @caseywhite8969 Před 3 lety +2

      My man simon has standards!
      *slaps script*
      *yells at Danny*

    • @ryangraf2542
      @ryangraf2542 Před 3 lety

      and he said that he wouldn't gat alot of views XD

  • @raycearcher5794
    @raycearcher5794 Před 4 lety +436

    "The Union has discovered hell. Our glorious freedom fighters will arrive shortly to liberate our damned comrades from the imperialism of lucifer."

  • @TheDanHK
    @TheDanHK Před 4 lety +1787

    "In their greed, the dwarves dug too deep and awakened an ancient evil"

    • @kayrosis5523
      @kayrosis5523 Před 4 lety +62

      Thankfully the russians stopped while they still could.

    • @Alpostpone
      @Alpostpone Před 4 lety +37

      @@kayrosis5523 The darkness and flame got too greedy itself and just ate their drill bit.

    • @christians10000
      @christians10000 Před 4 lety +61

      @@kayrosis5523 No, No they didn't stop while they still could, thus the Soviet Union was destroyed by the acient evil. The Balrog ate soul of bolshivsm.

    • @dancingwiththedarkness3352
      @dancingwiththedarkness3352 Před 4 lety +17

      They have a much greater chance of creating their own volcano, but isn't that just another type of balrog?

    • @annescholey6546
      @annescholey6546 Před 4 lety +5

      Smaugs house

  • @alekrode3723
    @alekrode3723 Před 4 lety +402

    "let's just jump in"
    please don't

  • @arquitectooo
    @arquitectooo Před 3 lety +81

    Sputnik was def a mega project - the satellite was just a cherry on much bigger cake!

  • @barlotardy
    @barlotardy Před 3 lety +159

    Just how Irish *is* that coffee, Simon? You're on the verge of speaking in cursive here! XD

    • @pygmygiant
      @pygmygiant Před 3 lety +17

      I like it! He finally sounds natural and not that fake posh voice he normally uses

    • @apathyguy8338
      @apathyguy8338 Před 3 lety +2

      Irish coffee doesn't have foam.

    • @alsoaclient
      @alsoaclient Před 3 lety +2

      @Apathy Guy, correct, coffee doesn't typically have foam, except maybe a tiny bit with espresso, and he seemed way too relaxed to be drinking that much espresso. Plus, his mug was more heady than even espresso, but it reduces by the end of the video. I would have guessed a stout, as the thick head seemed "G'ness-like", and it was the right color to be of a stout. Cool mug!

    • @ciaranhughes7089
      @ciaranhughes7089 Před 3 lety +3

      Looks like Guinness in a cup

    • @kevinchan79
      @kevinchan79 Před 2 lety

      @@ciaranhughes7089 which is "made from penguins... You boil them and the white stuff floats to the top" Al Murray

  • @LinxOnlineGames
    @LinxOnlineGames Před 4 lety +836

    'Just 9 inches in diameter it's smaller than most standard pizzas but at a depth of 1,220,062 metres ... it is unparalleled.'
    Now that's a deep-crust pizza.

  • @RIlianP
    @RIlianP Před 4 lety +614

    So Simon searched for "deep hole" on the internet, I wonder how many pages down he had to drill to bypass the porn.

    • @megaprojects9649
      @megaprojects9649  Před 4 lety +393

      For the first time in my life I visited the second page of Google search results.

    • @mikeralph
      @mikeralph Před 4 lety +22

      Reams of it, I'm sure.

    • @lucas-ge4qh
      @lucas-ge4qh Před 4 lety +43

      you guys can bypass porn?

    • @chriswillis4153
      @chriswillis4153 Před 4 lety +7

      czcams.com/video/HPaTF5PCbPA/video.html

    • @brianswelding
      @brianswelding Před 4 lety +8

      I was expecting Simon to preface this by saying "No, this is not pornography..."

  • @TheMrjohannes1995
    @TheMrjohannes1995 Před 3 lety +32

    Imagine accidently stepping on that Well cover in a 1000 years.

    • @Cookinoutdoors
      @Cookinoutdoors Před 3 lety +4

      I wouldn’t worry unless you have shoulders less than 9 inches across 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @admiralsaigojudo5427
      @admiralsaigojudo5427 Před 2 lety

      @@Cookinoutdoors You just simply happen to be walking with a Golden bar worth 250,000 dollars and you trip and drop it into the hole. Why you are walking around with a gold bar is…yes.

  • @abpsd73
    @abpsd73 Před 3 lety +19

    The only urban legend I've heard about the borehole was that the reason the project had to be abandoned was because the drill stem became stuck, sheared off, and was irretrievable.

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson Před 4 lety +346

    "We have to keep drilling for at least a few weeks, or else people will think we stopped because we found hell."
    That is by far the most metal thing I've ever heard from a scientific expedition!

    • @FeedScrn
      @FeedScrn Před 4 lety +5

      Rumours persist.

    • @shindari
      @shindari Před 4 lety +16

      @@FeedScrn Flat Earth Theory still persists also, Sometimes rumors are real... and sometimes "stupid" is just STUPID.......

    • @cookiecola5852
      @cookiecola5852 Před 3 lety +1

      You mean mental?

    • @bladerj
      @bladerj Před 2 lety +4

      @@FeedScrn not rumor there is a place in brazil where there is a hole you can actually hear what sounds like voices, people cant go there anymore since 92.
      why...dont know....some say its because too many people died spelunking there.....maybe they heard their screams lol.

    • @FeedScrn
      @FeedScrn Před 2 lety +1

      @@bladerj - Any links about this hole... in Portuguese or whatever, would help. Thanks.

  • @cleverusername9369
    @cleverusername9369 Před 4 lety +249

    "I, as always, am your host Simon" that statement is becoming more and more literal as Simon takes over CZcams.

    • @megaprojects9649
      @megaprojects9649  Před 4 lety +70

      Goals.

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 Před 4 lety +5

      @Lord Raiden passively learning is the best

    • @jameslyddall
      @jameslyddall Před 4 lety +1

      Dan Witzke kinda like the franchise wars in demolition man where Taco bell became the only franchise. Simon will soon take over every youtube channel lol

    • @jaysonvance594
      @jaysonvance594 Před 4 lety

      It is what Simon says..... lol

  • @brandonjc13
    @brandonjc13 Před 3 lety +18

    "Let's just jump in."
    Simon, don't-

    • @jamesrobertson3853
      @jamesrobertson3853 Před 19 dny

      I have
      The cola bore hole in
      Russia
      12 klms down
      Push a tube down there
      Section in the middle
      Strongest steel
      Gravity feed water one way steam pushes multiple pistons generating steam power
      Tricky part would be getting it going before it was completed

  • @luk4s56
    @luk4s56 Před 3 lety +32

    back then:"yeah we need to drill for bit more so they dont start rumors"
    nowdays:"they started rumors? fk lets stop it for the meme's"

    • @yusufn7467
      @yusufn7467 Před 3 lety +1

      LMAAAAAAO
      That's the best Comment on this vid lol
      Take my like

  • @wavion2
    @wavion2 Před 4 lety +296

    They only made it 9" so the balrog couldn't get out.

    • @markdoldon8852
      @markdoldon8852 Před 4 lety +30

      Did it work? After all, Donald Trump is a thing...

    • @martyzielinski2469
      @martyzielinski2469 Před 4 lety +13

      Mark Doldon Go fuk yourself....

    • @gregbrightwell662
      @gregbrightwell662 Před 4 lety +20

      @@martyzielinski2469 aw come on.
      Let people have their fun.

    • @Alpostpone
      @Alpostpone Před 4 lety +29

      @@markdoldon8852 Drilling at Kola Superdeep Borehole ended in 1992.
      Donald Trump made a cameo appearance in Home Alone 2 in 1992.
      Coincidence? I think not.

    • @Theggman83
      @Theggman83 Před 4 lety +7

      A perfectly funny comment ruined by partisan bickering...

  • @84gssteve
    @84gssteve Před 4 lety +764

    "So when are the travel restrictions going to be lifted?"......(Quietly packs a crescent wrench, WD-40 and a bowling ball)

    • @firstmkb
      @firstmkb Před 4 lety +27

      Steve po lol! Bowling ball is much better than the marbles I pictured.

    • @WhiplashPuppet
      @WhiplashPuppet Před 4 lety +25

      You forgot the Flex Seal products.

    • @FrVitoBe
      @FrVitoBe Před 4 lety +113

      Opens up and find it already filled with other bowling balls

    • @donkeyslayer4661
      @donkeyslayer4661 Před 4 lety +26

      You're going to need a sledgehammer or a long pipe on your wrench to break those bolts loose.

    • @smolkafilip
      @smolkafilip Před 4 lety +74

      A GoPro, an infrared glowstick and 8 miles of fishing line.

  • @Xion_Toshiro
    @Xion_Toshiro Před 3 lety +69

    Interviewer:
    So... what was it like; drilling this hole?
    Technician:
    A penetrating experience. Kinda boring though. But, we just dug right in.

    • @tbone2646
      @tbone2646 Před 3 lety +3

      Well... I did read the caption as super deep butthole ... :/

    • @joshbobst1629
      @joshbobst1629 Před 11 měsíci

      Hesus kristus

    • @jamesrobertson3853
      @jamesrobertson3853 Před 19 dny

      The kola bore hole in
      Russia
      12 klms down
      Push a tube down there
      Section in the middle
      Strongest steel
      Gravity feed water one way steam pushes multiple pistons generating steam power
      Un ending power from steam
      Build them everywhere
      Wheres the PROBLEM?????
      Tricky part would be getting it going before it was completed

  • @cremilar
    @cremilar Před 3 lety +64

    "At 9 inches diameter, it's smaller than most standard pizzas"
    Loser Pizza's, they're called loser pizzas

  • @jimmywolfe4724
    @jimmywolfe4724 Před 4 lety +120

    I swear I could hear Simon fighting to not say "its your boi Simon!" in that intro.

  • @dvabow
    @dvabow Před 4 lety +144

    Sputnik was definitely a MEGA project, would love to see a video about it on this channel. Keep up the great work!

    • @joeyr7294
      @joeyr7294 Před 4 lety

      Agreed, I like to see a vid on it

    • @higginsjedi85
      @higginsjedi85 Před 4 lety

      I agree

    • @sgtkill9698
      @sgtkill9698 Před 4 lety

      Definitely.

    • @Zaddy-Lu
      @Zaddy-Lu Před 4 lety +1

      I agree, do Sputnik!

    • @Furudal
      @Furudal Před 4 lety

      FastCaptain the soviet ICBM program may have been a mega project. Sputnik was only a nice byproduct of that.

  • @stickmann7363
    @stickmann7363 Před 3 lety +37

    "Where'd the microphone go?"
    "Fell in the hole."
    "Where'd the camera go?"
    "Fell into the hole."
    "Why are there screams coming from the hole?"
    "Hole person."
    "Why is there a giant hole in your town?"
    "Why doesn't your town have one?"
    "What was the point of thi-"
    *"HOLES"*

    • @SuperPITSteelers
      @SuperPITSteelers Před 2 lety +1

      WHAT. A. REFERENCE!
      That video is getting quite old, eh?

    • @jamesrobertson3853
      @jamesrobertson3853 Před 19 dny

      The kola bore hole in
      Russia
      12 klms down
      Push a tube down there
      Section in the middle
      Strongest steel
      Gravity feed water one way steam pushes multiple pistons generating steam power
      Un ending power from steam
      Build them everywhere
      Wheres the PROBLEM?????
      Tricky part would be getting it going before it was completed

  • @SewardWriter
    @SewardWriter Před 4 lety +14

    Hey, I've heard of Bertha Rogers! It's north of where my great-grandparents settled during the land runs. (The other side of my family got there on the Trail of Tears. Yes, I'm practically a stereotype.) It's pretty common to name oil wells after women. One of my childhood friends was named after a Texas well that her dad worked on, though I have no idea who the original bearer of the name was.
    Anyway, I'd love to see the Kola hole, but with my luck, it would come open and I'd lose my glasses. Without them, I'm so nearsighted, I can barely read.

  • @pilotavery
    @pilotavery Před 4 lety +210

    The world's deepest hole
    High schoolers: "It's number 2 after your mom"

    • @tbp4172
      @tbp4172 Před 4 lety +1

      damn I just commented that and now I seen this

    • @scottmccluremcclure3916
      @scottmccluremcclure3916 Před 4 lety +1

      I don't get it

    • @boyboy7199
      @boyboy7199 Před 4 lety

      Haha haha your so hilarious

    • @nicosmind3
      @nicosmind3 Před 4 lety +2

      Was hoping to see a "yo' mama" joke, and i was not disappointed... Saves me from having to make it :D

    • @bellerophon-
      @bellerophon- Před 4 lety

      *bro-five*

  • @cobaltcoywolf
    @cobaltcoywolf Před 4 lety +530

    "Let's just jump in" was giggle worthy.

    • @theeasternfront6436
      @theeasternfront6436 Před 4 lety +3

      😮

    • @bradbrown8759
      @bradbrown8759 Před 4 lety +5

      😂 This looks bloody dangerous... Well? Here we go! GERONIMOOOO00000ooooo....

    • @wrongway1100
      @wrongway1100 Před 3 lety +2

      Just giggle only giggle.

    • @ryantaylor1142
      @ryantaylor1142 Před 3 lety +3

      Does it get hot enough in the hole that you could forever poo in it and it not get full

    • @bradbrown8759
      @bradbrown8759 Před 3 lety +1

      @Caledonian Express oh no! He went down the hell hole! I'm coming! Sacajweaaaaaaaaaaaa.

  • @jameslmorehead
    @jameslmorehead Před 3 lety +9

    My great grandfather invented those tri coned drill bits they were using. I never knew this growing up until I was cleaning out paperwork from his machine shop and ran across the patents. Was super cool to go through.
    As for the 180C temp that stopped them back then, we have electronic equipment (The company I work for has 175/200C LWD/MWD tools we sell) down hole that can operate at 200C and purely mechanical rated for well over 230C. I wonder how deep we could go now.

    • @theoztreecrasher2647
      @theoztreecrasher2647 Před rokem

      Don't do that! Old Nick already sent 1 Putin up through that hole to torment us! 👿😱😜

    • @xy4489
      @xy4489 Před 5 měsíci

      The gradient is 25C/km, so your extra 50C would yieled about an extra 2000m.

    • @jamesrobertson3853
      @jamesrobertson3853 Před 19 dny

      The kola bore hole in
      Russia
      12 klms down
      Push a tube down there
      Section in the middle
      Strongest steel
      Gravity feed water one way steam pushes multiple pistons generating steam power
      Un ending power from steam
      Build them everywhere
      Wheres the PROBLEM?????
      Tricky part would be getting it going before it was completed

  • @properbrew3375
    @properbrew3375 Před 3 lety

    I love how u casually have a small glass of porter in the begining and sort of stumble through a couple words later on. A man after my own heart keep up the good work

  • @gonshocks
    @gonshocks Před 4 lety +465

    "Journey to .02% of the Center of the Earth".

  • @harrybotter8762
    @harrybotter8762 Před 4 lety +335

    Simon needs to narrate my day for me at least once. Kinda like in The Stanley Parable.

  • @nickwolfwood3306
    @nickwolfwood3306 Před 4 lety +32

    Need a mega project on the “Hughes Glomar Explorer” when it raised the Russian submarine

    • @TheJimmy80808
      @TheJimmy80808 Před 3 lety +2

      About 10 years ago I attended a presentation on that by the UK IMechE. Fascinating story behind the technical challenges operating machinery at that depth and the cover story. All just to get an eyeball on some nuke missiles.

    • @hillaryclinton2415
      @hillaryclinton2415 Před 3 lety

      This

  • @albertogarcia716
    @albertogarcia716 Před rokem

    Thank you, Dude. I appreciate the information and your sense of humor. I love your clips.

  • @Lamppa
    @Lamppa Před 4 lety +478

    Yo Simon! Any chance of you making a Megaprojects about the Large Hadron Collider? Or the upcoming Tokamak Fusion Reactor?

    • @quasarsavage
      @quasarsavage Před 4 lety +17

      I love this idea

    • @ayushsharma7995
      @ayushsharma7995 Před 4 lety +14

      Fusion reactor would be nice..

    • @evanbarrows2413
      @evanbarrows2413 Před 4 lety +3

      Cern Colider Yes that's perfect!

    • @Paul_Ch52
      @Paul_Ch52 Před 4 lety +12

      The LHC would be an excellent topic for this channel. Lots of info on construction and the detectors and operation. Especially the computing grid which spans the entire world. But Simon probably won't be able to pronounce "hadron" properly so that would pretty much destroy the tone of the whole video.

    • @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou
      @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou Před 4 lety +4

      I won't subscribe until I watch the LHC episode!

  • @audreyschmitt1782
    @audreyschmitt1782 Před 4 lety +68

    Wow, so Simon was able to mention two movies he's seen! This must be a new record for him

    • @ClancyoftheOverflow
      @ClancyoftheOverflow Před 4 lety +5

      Yeah, but what the hell was he talking about? Colin Farrell has never been in a remake of a movie where they travel to the center of the earth/deep underground... Maybe he meant Land of the Lost with WILL Ferrell but they don't travel deep underground in that either...

    • @robswitzer8334
      @robswitzer8334 Před 4 lety +5

      @@ClancyoftheOverflow Total Recall

    • @grahamchalk4727
      @grahamchalk4727 Před 4 lety +1

      The core? Also no Colin Farrell 🙄

    • @grahamchalk4727
      @grahamchalk4727 Před 4 lety +1

      Oh dear he just mentioned it. I really liked that one

    • @robswitzer8334
      @robswitzer8334 Před 4 lety +4

      @@grahamchalk4727 Total Recall

  • @Roughneckmechanic1033
    @Roughneckmechanic1033 Před 3 lety +32

    As a roughneck, gotta say that 22 years on one hole sounds pretty damn good to me

  • @deawinter
    @deawinter Před 6 měsíci +1

    Genuinely this is one of my favorite videos Simon has done. That coffee has him so hyper and the topic is relatively low-stakes and silly. 10/10

  • @charliebailey6554
    @charliebailey6554 Před 4 lety +102

    "standard pizza's" is my new favourite scale for diameter

    • @MJFallout
      @MJFallout Před 4 lety +7

      Anything to avoid the metric system, right?

    • @willythemailboy2
      @willythemailboy2 Před 4 lety +1

      Better than the old standard: Yo mama's ass.

    • @rickc2102
      @rickc2102 Před 4 lety +1

      My standard pizza is 22" though.

    • @dfailsthemost
      @dfailsthemost Před 4 lety

      For me, it's also an effective unit of measure of time. Though, it's inversely exponential. 3 standard pizzas is double the time represented by 2 standard pizzas.

    • @TheTuttle99
      @TheTuttle99 Před 4 lety +3

      Why do people add apostrophes thinking it changes a word to its plural? I will never understand

  • @AftermathRV
    @AftermathRV Před 4 lety +63

    They discovered RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

    • @iowafarmboy
      @iowafarmboy Před 4 lety +3

      So THAT'S how it escaped!

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting Před 4 lety +2

      and went bankrupt. Now it all makes sense.

    • @robswitzer8334
      @robswitzer8334 Před 4 lety

      A wild Pokemon appeared! (Earth-type of course)

    • @willythemailboy2
      @willythemailboy2 Před 4 lety +1

      What Simon isn't about to admit is that RAID SHADOW LEGENDS is the mega projects video for April 1st next year.

  • @travisbond635
    @travisbond635 Před 3 lety

    That's very interesting. I enjoyed watching. Thanks for covering that unusual subject. Keep up the good work.

  • @donavinnezar
    @donavinnezar Před 3 lety

    "Its worth it because its entertaining" the favorite thing ive heard you said ever and an attitude that other youtubers/media forms should embrace

  • @TheFrenchMansControl
    @TheFrenchMansControl Před 4 lety +125

    Missed an opportunity to say "a race to the bottom"

    • @megaprojects9649
      @megaprojects9649  Před 4 lety +23

      BA DA BUM BUM THSHSHSHSHSHSHS

    • @ronmeier8850
      @ronmeier8850 Před 4 lety +1

      Kinda like it, almost could picture the one arm drummer from Def Leopard....yep that just happened!

  • @hicksalpha
    @hicksalpha Před 4 lety +66

    "A slow and la-bore-ious task"

  • @stevensmith5449
    @stevensmith5449 Před 2 lety

    I enjoy and appreciate your seemingly, pragmatic, approach.

  • @JJE2010MO
    @JJE2010MO Před rokem

    Another super video! Keep them coming Simon!!!

  • @daniellee5390
    @daniellee5390 Před 4 lety +59

    I feel like I find a new channel from Simon every other day

    • @lostbutfreesoul
      @lostbutfreesoul Před 4 lety +12

      It is what happens when dealing with a group of media-savvy clones....

    • @MNewsTime
      @MNewsTime Před 3 lety +2

      He makes 5x the $$ this way

    • @TylerTMG
      @TylerTMG Před rokem

      @@MNewsTime he deserves it

  • @nicku33
    @nicku33 Před 4 lety +73

    I can't believe he got through that without spilling the coffee.

    • @shannonwittman950
      @shannonwittman950 Před 3 lety +1

      Ha! I thought Simon was holding a glass of ale. You know -- the English, ale -- but then I suppose the glass would be much, much bigger ...

    • @ravenwraith1017
      @ravenwraith1017 Před 3 lety

      Shannon Wittman sure you aren’t thinking of the Norse?

    • @bearcubdaycare
      @bearcubdaycare Před 3 lety +1

      As far as we know

    • @themotorcyclezeroshow
      @themotorcyclezeroshow Před 3 lety +1

      Gave me anxiety every time he picked up his coffee.

  • @andykopgod
    @andykopgod Před 4 lety

    Really enjoyed that, fascinating. Cheers

  • @erictroxell715
    @erictroxell715 Před 3 lety

    Your work is wonderful!!

  • @elisamet2788
    @elisamet2788 Před 4 lety +10

    It's praiseworthy that you don't clickbait by putting irrelevant cover photos like many other CZcamsrs. It's this sincerity (as well as excellent narrative skills) that make me love this channel. Keep them coming!!

  • @alanrogers7090
    @alanrogers7090 Před 4 lety +66

    Simon, yes, the Sputnik is a great place to start when learning about space. in fact, the Soviets were constantly being first at something in space before the Americans did the same thing. First artificial satellite, first man in space, first woman in space, first pair of cosmonauts, etc., etc., etc. You get the picture. And, by the way, I am American, and I remember being outside with my Mother, (still alive at 96, thank you very much), and observing Sputnik fly overhead. At first she thought it was an airplane, but I said that it was way too fast. Later, watching the TV news, we learned about Sputnik. We didn't know what size it was, but wondered if it had atomic bombs on board. Literally, except for the lunar landing, the US was beaten in every category by the USSR getting there first. As a postscript, I watch and enjoy all of your shows that I find. Thank you.

    • @_warren6659
      @_warren6659 Před 4 lety +3

      cool story Alan! amazing how far we've come in your lifetime. call yourself a technological renaissance man!

    • @dannydetonator
      @dannydetonator Před 3 lety +1

      Thanks, one of thr few US commenters , who don't shrug this piece of cosmonautic's history off. The list is very long, but you're catching up.

    • @ROFLobster4884
      @ROFLobster4884 Před 2 lety +1

      They also collapsed first! Truly pioneers of their age. 😌

    • @TheCoon1975
      @TheCoon1975 Před 2 lety

      It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't mind killing a few people in the process. We will never know the true human cost of the Soviet space program.

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Před rokem

      Who got to Mars first?

  • @romeyburgin7221
    @romeyburgin7221 Před 3 lety

    Simon one of the best of your presentations and you seem to have enjoyed it yourself.

  • @sarysa
    @sarysa Před 3 lety

    Your other videos teased this hole so much that I just had to look. Well played.

  • @mycroft16
    @mycroft16 Před 4 lety +144

    I love when humans do stuff like this. "Hey, what if we drilled a hole all the way down to the mantle?"
    "dude, that's crazy."
    "I know, but what if we did it?"
    That's how ever awesome thing humanity has ever done has likely started.

    • @donkeyslayer4661
      @donkeyslayer4661 Před 3 lety +1

      What you would get is unlimited source of electrical generation.

    • @mycroft16
      @mycroft16 Před 3 lety +4

      @jared priceDensity. Just like a straw looks bent when you put it in water because of the different densities of water and air affecting how light travels, sound waves are affected by density as well. They literally listen to the Earth and map sound waves from known sources and map where they expect them to be and where they find them. This tells them how the sound was "bent" by density changes which lets them map the interior. They've been doing this for a while. Initially with earthquakes which cause the entire planet to ring like a giant low frequency bell. They've been using sound to find oil deep underground for a long time.

    • @barthoving2053
      @barthoving2053 Před 3 lety +1

      @jared price And then you have volcanoes, earthquakes. Latter point to plate tectonics. Movement of the plates push up the crust , mountains, which ones eroded actually give a look at rock from a lower part of the crust. Earth magnetic sphere and heat coming from in the earth also points a form of heat creation . And then you have simply working through the known laws of physics what is where. There are lot's of little pieces of data you got put into a model.

    • @johnuferbach9166
      @johnuferbach9166 Před 3 lety

      @jared price Also we can measure the gravitational force earth causes, so we can aestimate how much mass has to be inside

    • @Starfloofle
      @Starfloofle Před 3 lety

      look, the defining characteristic of humanity is just as much "fuck it, let's find out what happens if I do this thing" as it is distrusting everything lol

  • @nathang2912
    @nathang2912 Před 4 lety +34

    Getting the Sputnik up seems like it would be a mega project.

    • @jackbridge5780
      @jackbridge5780 Před 4 lety

      There's a old man out there that calls his 'little friend' sputnik that agrees with you....sorry :/

  • @jasonwomack4064
    @jasonwomack4064 Před 3 lety +5

    Possibly the only deep hole video on the internet that doesn't require you to frantically close the browser when someone walks in.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před 3 lety +7

    3:50 - Chapter 1 - The center of the earth
    5:55 - Chapter 2 - Project mohole
    7:40 - Chapter 3 - Drilling begins
    8:50 - Chapter 4 - Scientific findings
    11:10 - Chapter 5 - The urban myth
    12:40 - Chapter 6 - The end of the road

  • @todddougherty9492
    @todddougherty9492 Před 4 lety +68

    Simon rents a wine cellar. Turns it into a CZcams Megachannel Overlord’s den.

    • @megaprojects9649
      @megaprojects9649  Před 4 lety +22

      Disappointing lack of wine down here.

    • @todddougherty9492
      @todddougherty9492 Před 4 lety +3

      Megaprojects you’re in Prague for god’s sake?!?!

    • @melangellatc1718
      @melangellatc1718 Před 4 lety +1

      I like to think an unused part of an S&M torture basement.... Look at Simon. C'mon, you see it. Freak!

    • @NomaddUK
      @NomaddUK Před 4 lety

      It's actually his crazy aunt's basement and she has held him there since he was 9 years old. Did you see the mediaeval rack in the room behind him?

    • @benhadden7038
      @benhadden7038 Před 4 lety

      It is the wine cellar in his under a volcano CZcams lair. As Simon does look like a bald Hank Scorpio

  • @deadmeatdec2164
    @deadmeatdec2164 Před 4 lety +32

    "How did fossils get so far down?"
    Subduction of plates maybe?

    • @nilstrieb
      @nilstrieb Před 4 lety +4

      @ArmchairWarrior what

    • @nerfninja661
      @nerfninja661 Před 4 lety

      Wind brings soil and debris little by little

    • @markdoldon8852
      @markdoldon8852 Před 4 lety +2

      Obviously, but it was surprising that any fossils would survive 2 billion years of time, pressure, heat. It's not a mystery in the general sense but merely in the sense of "exactly how can this happen without obliterating the fossils?"

    • @Melody_Raventress
      @Melody_Raventress Před 4 lety

      Luck, there’s a reason that there are so many gaps in the fossil record. Survival of fossils for that long is pure luck.

  • @animered1986
    @animered1986 Před 3 lety

    I have just started watching these, I've watched your first 6 videos on this Megaprojects & liked them very much (Thumbs up). I have Subscribed & Rung that bell. I plan to watch the rest of them as time permits. Thank you so much for making these 👍👍

  • @louislochner5713
    @louislochner5713 Před 4 lety

    Such interesting content 👌- keep it coming

  • @deadlikedisco4726
    @deadlikedisco4726 Před 4 lety +38

    "Let's just jump in"
    Let's not, Simon.

    • @megaprojects9649
      @megaprojects9649  Před 4 lety +11

      Let's crack on would have been better.

    • @deadlikedisco4726
      @deadlikedisco4726 Před 4 lety +1

      @@megaprojects9649 Agreed. Either way, keep up the videos. I enjoy this new channel.

  • @Caldersparr
    @Caldersparr Před 4 lety +42

    Has the coffe been sipped?

    • @PMW3
      @PMW3 Před 4 lety +3

      Well, he didn't make it all of the way through the coffee,

    • @KingofScrapMetal
      @KingofScrapMetal Před 4 lety +4

      N E V E R F O R G E T
      We are all one coffee

    • @megaprojects9649
      @megaprojects9649  Před 4 lety +12

      Always.

    • @benignpxl
      @benignpxl Před 4 lety

      Why the coffee in hand? Soooooooo distracting. Is he gonna spill it? Is he trying to control his gestures by occupying one hand? Will he sip it? He's miked, how will that sound? Will he spill it on his white shirt? Lol

    • @alishaliddle4100
      @alishaliddle4100 Před 4 lety +1

      I'm searching the comments for links to that mug 😂

  • @robneville7155
    @robneville7155 Před 3 lety +11

    The "hole to hell" legend spread to TV evangelists. I heard an enthusiastic preacher tell the story as true at a funeral.

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro Před 3 lety +1

      I heard a similar story that goes by the name of "Mel's hole" I don't know, but sounds like a similar, if not the same story.
      I want to Google more about that. I say this in the _least_ sexual way possible.

  • @anthonylloyd6094
    @anthonylloyd6094 Před rokem

    I love the fact that you had so engrossed yourself in the telling of the story you forgot about your coffee.
    That's enthusiasm, and not in the slightest way boring....

  • @c.armstrong2978
    @c.armstrong2978 Před 4 lety +29

    5:02
    The Simon Whistler Effect:
    The Core dropped 17pts on Rotten Tomatoes.

    • @MinistryOfMagic_DoM
      @MinistryOfMagic_DoM Před 4 lety

      How?! It was only a 10 to start.

    • @c.armstrong2978
      @c.armstrong2978 Před 4 lety +1

      @@MinistryOfMagic_DoM it's the Simon Whistler Effect...

    • @megaprojects9649
      @megaprojects9649  Před 4 lety +14

      I'm surprised it had 17 points to drop.

    • @tomgidden
      @tomgidden Před 4 lety

      I _love_ The Core. It’s the epitome of “so bad it’s good”. Add “Stealth” and “Battlefield Earth” for a legendary movie night.

    • @tomgidden
      @tomgidden Před 4 lety

      Absolutely... good call. The Happening totally fits with those.

  • @claudiaxander
    @claudiaxander Před 4 lety +52

    Earth: I'm screwed!

  • @paulmoore4651
    @paulmoore4651 Před 2 lety

    Thanks Simon, always fun

  • @DiscoDashco
    @DiscoDashco Před 3 lety

    Fabulous jacket/sport coat, Simon! Looking very sharp, Mr. Whistler.

  • @darlantro
    @darlantro Před 4 lety +10

    I liked the anti-clickbait note at the end. Good work!

  • @buzzyinurface
    @buzzyinurface Před 4 lety +24

    I love how you go on small tangents, it’s endearing and authentic

  • @TheDove25
    @TheDove25 Před 3 lety

    Really find your work very interesting and amusing.

  • @jaws2858
    @jaws2858 Před 3 lety

    Liked the relaxed feel on this. 👍.

  • @Fsilone
    @Fsilone Před 4 lety +42

    "We're going to see how far down into the Earth we can dig. Let's go up into the mountains to do it."

    • @GarrusN7
      @GarrusN7 Před 4 lety +4

      I found this funnier than I should have.

    • @caitlyn9972
      @caitlyn9972 Před 4 lety +6

      Ok, I've known about this dig hole for years and just realized how ridiculous the site choice was.

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae Před 4 lety +1

      @@caitlyn9972 probably has something to do with the type of rock

    • @caitlyn9972
      @caitlyn9972 Před 4 lety +1

      @@autohmae that's just a logical answer....lol

    • @Alpostpone
      @Alpostpone Před 4 lety

      When you're so confident you'll break the sprint record that you move the starting line back just 'cause.

  • @zafarsyed6437
    @zafarsyed6437 Před 4 lety +52

    You forgot to mention the 1st hole getting screwy and breaking off the drill string and restarting at 7000m and the 2nd hole went "straighter" and is the one that went the deepest.

    • @specialed6357
      @specialed6357 Před 3 lety +4

      There were several that kept offshooting and deviating from the main shaft that ended up being the final or main hole. They said it started representing an upside down tree with so many branches offshooting. That's another reason why it took so long to drill.

    • @cccpredarmy
      @cccpredarmy Před 3 lety

      @@specialed6357 a lot of times the drifting occured because of the unstable crust which was moving the hole away. Scientists gad to find a way to stabilize tge drilling machine

  • @somegoodvibes5824
    @somegoodvibes5824 Před 3 lety +25

    Let's all be honest where else would this hole be than Russia

  • @BetterWorse-ge6ci
    @BetterWorse-ge6ci Před 2 měsíci

    I love the breaking the 4th wall at the end and elsewhere in this specific video.

  • @Vasiliosx2
    @Vasiliosx2 Před 4 lety +68

    Simon- "that just doesn't feel right."
    Me- what really doesn't feel right is all the missed sex jokes my high school years trained me to make.

  • @WiffleWhomper
    @WiffleWhomper Před 4 lety +9

    I pay for premium thinking I'd download so much music.
    Where I live is poor service so I instead download videos from a few of your channels to make sure I have stuff to watch when the service goes down :) great content and glad to see you grow! You and your team are doing incredible

    • @nerfninja661
      @nerfninja661 Před 4 lety +2

      Krosean English check out the antenna videos he made them out of scrap for the same reason

    • @megaprojects9649
      @megaprojects9649  Před 4 lety +5

      Thank you :)

    • @TylerTMG
      @TylerTMG Před rokem

      @@megaprojects9649 hi

  • @paulduff479
    @paulduff479 Před 4 lety

    I love his narrations

  • @itssecret.722
    @itssecret.722 Před 3 lety +2

    This different camera angle is making me rethink my whole life

  • @BinkyBorky
    @BinkyBorky Před 4 lety +16

    That coffee has a very similar head to a stout dark beer or fine ale.

    • @Pisti846
      @Pisti846 Před 4 lety +1

      I wonder why he always has to have a beverage while speaking?

    • @robswitzer8334
      @robswitzer8334 Před 4 lety +2

      @@Pisti846 The British are always drinking something.

    • @MinistryOfMagic_DoM
      @MinistryOfMagic_DoM Před 4 lety +2

      @@Pisti846 helps coat the vocal cords and he talks all day so he needs something. Warm liquids help a lot with that.

    • @irvingcobian
      @irvingcobian Před 4 lety

      @@MinistryOfMagic_DoM my wife was in choir in high school she said warm tea helps the vocal cords

  • @MissDiea
    @MissDiea Před 4 lety +7

    I’ve just discovered this channel and am currently binge watching everything, it’s excellent! Thank you for all your hard work and research ☺️ would you consider an episode on the ISS?

  • @yousifsalah8052
    @yousifsalah8052 Před 3 lety

    I just loved that honesty in the end

  • @SaysDom
    @SaysDom Před 3 lety

    Just found this channel and I'm so into it.

  • @ShobhitVashistha
    @ShobhitVashistha Před 4 lety +14

    Hey Simon, great content, love the casual feel, just a small suggestion, you have a very engaging way of talking directly to the camera, the side sweeping angles somehow just take me out of it for some reason, I am assuming they also increase the amount of production and editing work you guys have to put in each video

    • @MinistryOfMagic_DoM
      @MinistryOfMagic_DoM Před 4 lety +3

      Yeah but then we get to see what socks he wore today.

    • @jackbridge5780
      @jackbridge5780 Před 4 lety

      I agree tho I'm usually playing ark or Forza while listening

  • @greenzne
    @greenzne Před 4 lety +24

    I feel a strange compulsion to go to Kola, open it and fiddle around with my phone?!?

    • @jackbridge5780
      @jackbridge5780 Před 4 lety +2

      And some very long string?

    • @m-w-y7325
      @m-w-y7325 Před 4 lety

      @@jackbridge5780 with a go pro attached to the end

  • @ShinVega
    @ShinVega Před 3 lety +104

    Russian Wife:
    How was work today?
    Husband: “It was hell”

  • @thumpertron
    @thumpertron Před 4 lety +119

    I made a really deep hole on the beach when I was a kid and an old man shouted at me and told me what I was doing was dangerous.
    They still haven't found him.

    • @justinandersob5534
      @justinandersob5534 Před 3 lety +1

      Actually sand digging to deep is real. Up north in traverse city here in michigan a young boy bout 12 i think dug a 4 foot by 3 foot deep hole he went a jumped in the hole again an it swallowed him. Do to the fact people dug him out fast enough bit it's not the first time.

  • @jackhemsworth7515
    @jackhemsworth7515 Před 4 lety +5

    Was surprised you didn't mention that at some point during the drilling, the enormously long drill shaft snapped. They had to re drill into the wall of the hole to avoid the previous bit as they couldn't pull it out again.

  • @iltidnicholl6286
    @iltidnicholl6286 Před 2 lety

    No steam off of that "coffee", looks similar to a Guinness....mmmm. Lovely and interesting informative work Simon. The sarcasm is good and very subtle.

  • @marksandstrom4248
    @marksandstrom4248 Před 4 lety +2

    An alternative much easier thing to go see are the "Tablelands" in Gros Morne NP, Newfoundland, Canada, where a few square miles of land are mantle rock rather than crust, right at the surface. The Tablelands are strikingly odd looking, because the soil mineral content makes them hostile to almost all plant life, in a location which has the climate to grow stuff quite well. In our summer visit, they seemed like a sunny wet warm desert.

  • @philipgallagher69420
    @philipgallagher69420 Před 4 lety +7

    I remember me and two of my friends sitting in a chipotle for about an hour back in like 2009-2010 and reading every bit of information we could find on the Kola Superdeep Borehole. So fascinating

  • @arthriticgamer3484
    @arthriticgamer3484 Před 4 lety +47

    Simon: "It's hard to get excited about a hole in the ground"
    Archaeologists: "Hold my beer"

    • @donfeloni3923
      @donfeloni3923 Před 3 lety +1

      "Hold my whip!" would be more accurate :D

  • @donmaxwell7826
    @donmaxwell7826 Před 3 lety

    BRAVO Simon!

  • @edylcnostrebor9722
    @edylcnostrebor9722 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us all

  • @WarPrime1
    @WarPrime1 Před 4 lety +13

    I see Simon, I click, watch and like

  • @WildStar2002
    @WildStar2002 Před 4 lety +14

    "Let's jump in!" - I see what you did there. :-)

  • @nytechilde
    @nytechilde Před 3 lety

    I really love your little snorty laugh 😂

  • @anthonyklanke1397
    @anthonyklanke1397 Před 3 lety

    I appreciate him not using click bait :) good job Simon!

  • @MinistryOfMagic_DoM
    @MinistryOfMagic_DoM Před 4 lety +48

    Simon: Doesn't know the name of Journey to the Center of the Earth Movie
    Also Simon 1 minute Later: "The book Journey to the Center of the Earth"
    Love ya Simon

    • @DarthBlue13
      @DarthBlue13 Před 4 lety +5

      He's talking about the movie "The core" Not Journey to the center of the earth.

    • @tlazur
      @tlazur Před 4 lety +3

      Yes, with COLIN Farrell

    • @MrSimulatedsanity
      @MrSimulatedsanity Před 4 lety +6

      @@DarthBlue13 think he means the 'total recall' remake

    • @JesusisJesus
      @JesusisJesus Před 4 lety

      He mentioned The Core movie a bit later.

    • @Ektalon
      @Ektalon Před 4 lety +1

      Ronald Doran But The Core isn’t a remake. Journey ToThe Centre Of The Earth has a remake. And neither of them have Colin Farrell!