New Evidence for an Epic Underground "Ocean" Reservoir

[Heronblade]

Care to guess how long it will take creationists to seize this as evidence for where the water for Noah's flood came from?

 

[Strazdas]

Yay, a new resource to exploit.

wont happen. 410 KM deep is unreachable. we cant drill that deep.
http://www.omgfacts.com/Science/Work-on-the-deepest-hole-ever-drilled-ha/55358
deepest hole we ever drilled was 12.262 meters. thats not even 1/20th of the distance needed. and the work had to be stopped because it became too hot even for diamond tipped drills. were not reaching this water, not with technology we got.

Interesting hypothesis, can fracking compromise the quality of this new reservoir??

No, fracking polutes surface waters and shallow reserves, which means it pollutes that water thats extracted to go to your sink that you drink. the drinkable water reserves very rarely breach bellow 1 KM.

I doubt it... this is 400+ km down. The deepest we've ever dug is an order of magnitude less than that, maybe 12km.

you got the distance about right as i pointed above. very eerie

 

[Signa]

Well that's a shit load of water. Unfortunately this is just going to encourage the young earth creationists who think that the water from the biblical flood just 'went away' once beardy cloud man was done slaughtering the masses.

That was my thought too. When I was a kid, I first learned of plate tectonics through my religious school thing (it was called Awana, if you know anything about that). They were implying that the earth had basically opened up on those seams, probably swallowing a lot of water at the time, which would explain where the flood waters went.

 

[Dalek Caan]

You just know that if one day we ever get down there and find a race lizard people or dinosaurs Cracked.com will write an article along the lines of "Ten ways Jules Verne predicated the future". I look forward to reading it.