The Lonesome Stars
Over in the United States, the “Lone Star Producing Company” and its dedicated employees got to work in 1974 in Oklahoma’s Washita County. They were drilling into the earth in search of oil. The work was not easy, to put it mildly, as the personnel encountered many lethal difficulties and near-death experiences. Few had even considered that the project was even possible. But their efforts resulted in the establishment of the “Bertha Rogers hole”, a “hole” that measured more than 31,400 feet, which comes to around six miles into the planet’s surface.
The Lonesome Stars
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This was a pioneering dig – this was the deepest that humans had made it into our planet’s center! But despite the drillers’ best efforts, they were unable to strike black gold. And although the Bertha Rogers hole would become the deepest one on Earth, there was an even more adventurous mining mission that would take place in 1979. On June 6 of that year, a Kola borehole known as SG-3 went even further down. Four years later, this hole, was deepened to an astonishing 39,000 feet through the planet’s coating. Despite its phenomenal depth, its width was just nine inches!
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