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With all that heat from the mantle and 4.5B years to stew, I wonder if the "under-earth ocean" is teeming with independently generated life, much like the areas around volcanic vents.

I'll pass on the movie, but I'd watch a subtitled anime about a group of teenagers who go there to study this life and end up getting weird powers that they use to battle the evil forces unleashed by venturing too deep.

Turns out Jules Verne was right.

I thought the record borehole was only like 12km, howd they get a diamond from that far down?

Not sure if serious... Hint: where does lava come from?

Sandy Hill's 2nd cousin. BTW: Sandy Hill was the first female weather reporter on TV in Seattle. That was a couple years ago.

and the windows of heaven were opened.

and the windows of heaven were opened.

And Russian Oligarchs started falling from them.

Genesis also had a talking snake, what's yer point?

It turns out I have a transcript of a conversation that happened in the Garden of Eden:

G-d: Adam, where’s my apple?

Adam: Damn Jesus, keep yer voice down. Eve and that snake got into an argument over the apple. She thinks You and I put him up to it and she’s pissed. She bit the head off the snake and ate the apple.

G-d: Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark. Well Adam, time’s a’wasting, gotta run. Lucifer, you’re up, Satan

We only need to drill 55 times as deep to check it out.

We need to mine this so we can finally construct Ringworld.

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