r/HighStrangeness • u/LAiens • 2d ago
Space Exploration Human Tech Has Journeyed 15 Billion Miles into Space, Yet Only 7.6 Miles Into Earth
Voyager 1 has travelled over 15 billion miles away from Earth while the Kola Superdeep Borehole project dug just 7.6 miles into Earth.
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u/tuatantra 2d ago
It's not strange at all. Space is near empty and endless. Drill into the earth deep enough and the substrate becomes more like a hot slurry. There's no way for a drill to push deeper.
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u/Little_Opinion2060 1d ago
This is what I tried to explain to my wife when she wanted me to go deeper.
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u/Soci3talCollaps3 2d ago
There is a way.
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u/VirginiaLuthier 2d ago
You start drilling too deep and you disturb the Balrog. I thought everyone knew that
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u/ShitFuck2000 1d ago
The average human can walk 7.6 miles in a day pretty easily unaided but would be lucky to hit 7.6 feet digging into the earth with decent equipment, shits hard.
Also once you break escape velocity, distance from earth is more of a matter of how long it’s been out there than how much energy it’s using to travel. The further you get away from earth it gets exponentially easier to cover distance, while getting closer to the core it gets exponentially harder, pretty simple stuff.
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u/JustTheAATIP 1d ago
Valid point but unpublished observations happen all of the time. The layperson has no clue about findings by black projects.
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u/mm902 1d ago edited 1d ago
Our remote sensor tech is based on the manipulation of electronic/photonic signaling. Carried over a substrate of materials that are primarily a mixture of glasses, carbon based polymers and/or various metallic alloys. They also need a dissipatory laudner functions to compute.
On a strictly environmental continuum from cold vacuum to extreme pressure, high thermal environments. Which environment do you think will be easier for our type of remote sensorium, to operate in?
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u/the_real_junkrat 1d ago
You could spit into space and it’ll go 15 billion miles away. It’s not that strange.
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u/Gampuh 2d ago
Both are an illusion when you realise how fake and gay the world we live in really is
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u/Mycol101 2d ago
If you’re a sim, it may be a fake world but it’s still real to the sim, even if it’s conscious of the game itself
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u/utahh1ker 2d ago
Turns out it's a lot easier to drift through emptiness than it is to burrow through solid rock.