Borehole mines are great, but boy do they attract mindworms.
ashoeafoot 6 days ago [-]
Could one use the oceanwater for cooling?
cess11 6 days ago [-]
I'm guessing it's not a particularly good idea to drill holes down to the mantle.
rsynnott 6 days ago [-]
Traditionally, it simply results in you running out of money (the previous US, Soviet and German attempts all ended up scrapped for funding reasons).
Qem 6 days ago [-]
Worth trying. If it suceeds when US, URSS and Germany failed before, it will be a Sputnik-level feat for China. Great way to showcase technological advancement. If it fails, it will be the fourth time somebody failed, so not particularly embarassing.
CharlieDigital 6 days ago [-]
I'm pretty certain that's where the Kaiju are.
perihelions 6 days ago [-]
Hey, FYI, this is a plagiarized version of an article[*] from Xinhua (China's government press office), who aren't credited. The OP link is some AI slop that copies and rewrites things with an LLM.
Why is the mass of the ship especially interesting here?
Edit: Ah, AI written. :-(
lm28469 6 days ago [-]
Given the number of ads and overall feel of the site it definitely looks like an AI powered ad sense billboard. Since LLMs became popular there are more and more of them, the first page of most google queries are full of them. The "LLMs will replace search engines" trope seems true only because they destroyed search engines.
falcor84 6 days ago [-]
Having watched Pacific Rim, I just hope we have the mecha ready by the time they open the breach and kaiju start coming out.
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For reference: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4307
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
[*] (.gov.cn) https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202411/17/content_WS6739adf7... ("China's first deep-ocean drilling vessel enters service")
If moderators see this and choose to change the URL, here's several more versions of this story:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01675-7 ("The Moho is in reach of ocean drilling with the Meng Xiang")
https://www.science.org/content/article/china-s-dreamy-new-s... ("China’s ‘dreamy’ new ship aims for Earth’s mantle—and assumes ocean-drilling leadership")
Edit: Ah, AI written. :-(