Those tired of waiting for the Large Hadron Collider to start back up should take a look at the Kola Superdeep Borehole -- 40,000 superdeep into the Kola Peninsula. In some accounts, the effort had to be discontinued because workers found the wailing of souls in hell too disturbing. Science and religion converged around the fact that it became too hot for the drill bits.
The U.S. Mohole -- an effort to get to the bottom of the Mohorovičić discontinuity -- never got that far. It never even got as far as the 31,000-foot Bertha Rogers hole in Washita County, Oklahoma. The Japanese are weighing in with the Chikyū Hakken, but it is not planned to go as deep as the Kola Superdeep Borehole.
Many American holes are far more shallow.
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