How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

Video written by Amy Muller

[hunkofthehill]

I can't believe you didn't send Amy to the deepest hole on earth

[kkrg]

There's old russian joke about it:
In Russia, we have two deepest holes in the world! One in Kola, and another in the budget

[betterchapter]

Russians: Drill for 24 years
The Earth: "Is it in yet?"

[Brighton]

I think it’s obvious that the real reason the bore hole curves at the bottom is that it makes it look like an upside-down sickle. The soviets were carving their logo into the earth!

[AaronGeo]

That picture you may have seen of the Kola Superdeep borehole with the gigantic bottomless hole in the ground isn't actually it, that picture is of the Mirny diamond mine in Russia

[Rubrickety]

To be fair to the American Miscellaneous Society, during that same period they did open an ice rink, purchase 900 tire irons, sing "Jailhouse Rock" backwards, push a wheelbarrow up Pikes Peak, adopt a poodle, play four games of Euchre, build a replica of the Washington Monument out of matchsticks, donate 43 Stetson hats to Goodwill, and make a bacon sandwich.

[mateuszmazur]

Digging a hole, diggy diggy hole,
I am a Dwarf and I’m digging a hole, diggy diggy hole

[NthMetalValorium]

there's a universe where the soviet union didn't collapse, they just changed their priorities and the whole country's focus is digging the hole.
You could leave if you want, but if you stay, every thing you do would be to support the hole.

[wgrandbois]

I feel like HAI couldn't quite make a video on NYC sea lion distribution so they had to slip it into this video.

[Jules.D]

6:33 I'm sure some of the onion journalists would be thrilled to know the US is planning on drilling that one new money hole that could fit up to $1 billion 💵

[tylerwebb]

2:59 “Can grind it out for about 4 hours before needing to be pulled out of the hole”
I see

[BlankPictures-]

This might be the first time in HAI history that Sam has been onscreen.

[greedyProphet]

Topologically speaking, it's not a hole.

[Nethershaw]

I went to 80, 000 hours. I asked them to help me -- because I'm autistic, clinically depressed, and trying to dig myself out of the aftermath of a decade of trauma -- find a new career.

They said I didn't need their advice. I could just read their free resources. I don't know what would be good for me; I don't know how to know; but I'm sure having more heaps of information is better.

[safebox]

2:10
Minor correction, but the AMS dissolved itself in 1964 according to the MBLWHOI Library.
It's unclear how much they officially contributed to the project as their initial pitch was rejected prior to 1958, and the work was credited to the National Academy of Sciences after a follow-up pitch was accepted and carried out.

[FG-]

0:15 WAIT! Are you telling me that Sam from HAI is ALSO Sam from Jet Lag AND Sam from Wendover. No

[Goatcha_M]

The best coverage of the KSDBH I have seen, can't remember anyone else covering the twisty snakey stuff, or the plasticity of the rock.

[reddcube]

I hate when people say like $1 billion is wasted. The money actually goes to engineers, researchers, manufacturers, and operators. It does not disappears into the hole.

[yt]

Imagine being on the literal Miscellaneous Society 💀

[Sam_on_YouTube]

The Sea Lion pool at the Queens Zoo is 7.5 miles from the Bronx Zoo Sea Lion pool. I clocked it. All 5 boroughs have their own city zoos and you can draw a line of the same distance connecting all 5 from Queens to Staten Island. It doesn't continue the same direction though. It's about a mile shy of forming an equilateral triangle with the Central Park zoo and the Bronx Zoo and forms an isosceles triangle instead.