Talk:1330: Kola Borehole

Reminds me of the title text in #1218: Doors of Durin. Whimsye (talk) 06:21, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Surely this is a Dwarf Fortress reference. The Soviets breached the Happy Fun Stuff! 108.162.250.5 06:42, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Well, DF has that connotation, but both the real thing and the hoax are older than Toady's game, so perhaps not so much a reference to DF (although Black Hat does propose a typically DF-player solution... I hope he's prepared for FPS Hell from the flowing liquids). Randall knows about DF, of course.

(BTW, from that (first, factual event) page: "In 1983, the drill passed 12,000 m (39,000 ft), and drilling was stopped for about a year to celebrate the event." ...Russians!) 141.101.98.176 08:18, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Lakes and Oceans #1040 also mentions the Kola Borehole.199.27.128.70 09:03, 14 February 2014 (UTC)Nix

If Hell would be a physical place, I don't think Lucifer would still be ruling there. In next war between Heaven and Hell, the winners will be anime and/or computer games nerds. Both Heaven and Hell will lose. :-) -- Hkmaly (talk) 11:06, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

One may recall from the Divine Comedy that Dante's imagery of Hell is a negative-mountain-shaped abyss that starts widest at the surface of our allegorical planet and ends at a point far below the surface where Satan resides. The deeper you go, the narrower the abyss gets, like a cone, and the more heinous the sinners. On the other side of the planet there is a mountain made from all that earth God removed to dig the Inferno. The Saints (all those who are saved by faith from the other fate) progress up the mountain through Purgatory to reach Paradise. — tbc (talk) 14:01, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

I remember reading about this in Dial the Truth ministries: http://www.av1611.org/hell.html Either way, in the war between Earth and Hell, I shall be in Heaven. Greyson (talk) 14:51, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

In the game terraria it is actually possible to dig a tunnel from the ocean to hell. I tried this but not enough water came through the tunnel to flood it.108.162.250.162 21:52, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

In Dante's Inferno, Hell is depicted as being a cold place since it is far from the warmth of the Creator. The modern hot version of hell is a byproduct of the fire and brimstone of the reformation period. 108.162.210.254 16:47, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

except that Dante is more modern than the "hot version of hell"! That one is mentioned in the bible in a few places, which is a bit earlier than Dante. The book of Revelations has rivers of sulphur, so not just hot but also smelly. Matthew's gospel refers to 'the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels'. He also mentioned a blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. There was a tale (Dave Allen maybe?) where Ian Paisley was preaching on that 'gnashing of teeth' text, and an old woman protested "but reverend, I don't have any teeth". The booming reply from the pulpit: "Teeth... will be provided!" 162.158.90.90 13:46, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

About the kola superdeep borehole being welded-shut - that seems to be actualy true. The wikipedia page on the borehole has a picture of it being welded shut, and the reference about the bore hole project being abandonded, an article in russian[1], says that it was welded shut in 1995. Could someone update that? --141.101.99.8 21:07, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Not only that, it was apparently capped with concrete as well [2] 141.101.89.217 12:54, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

When he says that she probably won't be on his side, I took it to mean that he'll be on his own side during the war, fighting against both Hell and Earth. Since she's nice, she probably wouldn't join him. 108.162.237.64 19:37, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

I took his comment in the final panel to mean that he is actually affiliated with hell and that somehow flooding Hell would release its contents rather than extinguish them. It was a very eerie thought that I'm sticking to. 108.162.222.185 12:48, 18 March 2015 (UTC) 21:37, 18 March 2015 (KST)

If there's ever a war between heaven and hell, my soul will be too busy exploring space to give a shit about it.

On a side note, I'd expect such sounds might actually have been "heard" in the chamber. Or it is theoretically possible. The sound of escaping hot gases, especially in chorus, would sound awfully similar to tormented screaming. So in a way, the sounds would sound similar.

Although in thinking about this one more deeply, another comic comes to mind as I freak out about the fact the scary magma chambers are RIGHT BELOW ME. I could easily walk the lateral distance separating me and them in a few hours. Or could scale a mountain with that distance in a day or so. Or in a few seconds using a lot of rocket fuel. But to go down that distance takes a lot more effort... hm. Of course there are always volcanoes.

Too busy thinking about space to worry about a war between hell and heaven. International Space Station (talk) 05:13, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Username checks out Whoop whoop pull up (talk) 06:09, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Just curious: what would realistically happen if the Kola Borehole was actually flooded with ocean water? The temperature at the bottom being 180 °C (according to Wikipedia), would it behave like a geyser? 162.158.126.82 (talk) 19:55, 15 August 2018 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

sign your COMMENT! Caliban (talk) 07:50, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Even better, you can 'nag sign' it for them. Find the edit in the history of changes for the page. In this case the one with "Revision as of 19:55, 15 August 2018 (edit) (undo) 162.158.126.82 (talk) Newer edit →" at the top. Copy enough of that to have the revision timestamp and IP (or username) in your paste-buffer. Then use {{unsigned ip}} (or {{unsigned}}, for the absent-minded usernamed editors) and add the 'who' and 'when' parameters to it. As I've just done above. You can do it without the timestamp (but why would you, having found the full info?) and even leave it bare of 'user' info (but the template shows that it expects at least the first param). Adding a third parameter is also possible, to override the default "please sign" message, but perhaps do that sparingly.

Though there's also often a lack, in these 'early' article Talk: pages, of the header comment that says "add comments to the bottom, and sign with ~~~~" (which not everyone would read, but they certainly can't if it's not there), and often the unsigned comment is so old that they were made before these things were routinely there to be reminded of. I've also added it in here, but of course it's all only a partial (and retrospective) solution to these problems.

And it's not unusual for a signature-aware editor to just over-eagerly forget, in their rush to post their latest witicism. As soon as they realise, they may (post-)sign it, but could take a little while. Six years is probably more than long enough to wait before nag-signing. ;

If you know the user(name) as normally quite conscientious in signing, it is also possible to copypaste the correct info over the bits in a copy of a legitimate .sig taken from another edit on the page. But you really have to nag all anonymous IPs, at least pour encourager les autres. Keep it in everyone's mind, and prompt prospective new editors with at least a modicum of foreknowledge. 172.70.91.77 10:35, 10 October 2024 (UTC)