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"Your mom" is missing?

this is at least two @jacobgeller.com videos

*Retsof

Which one did Stephen Miller crawl out of?

Nice :) What about Hranice Abyss - the deepest flooded pit cave in the world: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hranice...

Anybody else finding that this xkcd exposes a Chrome bug? Or is it a page bug? If I zoom in on the page on desktop then the scroll bar lets me move all the way to the right, but not all the way to the left

Fascinating!

Where's the hole-in-the-bottom-of-the-sea? www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Qn...

I can't believe Randall posted hole on main

can neither confirm nor deny surprise to see Glomar on this graphic

Holes.

Now No one has freedom, so why celebrate with anything but another revolution?

the oak island money pit is deeper

"...dug by little moles..." youtu.be/Y_2c_E_c-U0?...

Antarctic ice drills don't count? Like EPICA?

Snolab.ca Neutrino observatory within Creighton Mine near Sudbury Ontario.

I don’t know if I do or not…now I’m curious. Hey @thesarawithanh.bsky.social! You would know if I do or not!

Very much. I wonder how do we know? Have we taken samples so deep?

Clearly there's not much to do in Woodingdean except dig a really deep hole by hand.

The fact that we as humans have dug deeper than the lowest part of the ocean both fascinates and scares me.

The mouseover text is especially good for this cartoon. Enjoy.

The Hambach open-pit lignite mine might have earned a place here. 85 km² in size, and up to 500 m deep, the lowest point being about 300 m below dea level.

The conclusion I've (in)correctly drawn from this is that we should have started the Russian bore hole at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

That's awesome thanks a lot! But you forgot us 😭 at the BedrettoLab (eos.org/editor-highl...). We are 1485 m above sea level, 0 to 1.5 km overburdened below Pizzo Rotondo (Switzerland)...

honestly was expecting a joke label for "Camp Green Lake" pointing to holes that at this scale can't even be seen

Randall, you are such a treasure.

Because it's non-existent.

But what about your mom? /s

Lake Baikal represent!

Puerto Rico Trench deserved a shout out no?

Fascinated by the inclusion of the Diefenbunker... And how close the two deepest ones are. Also, now I want to see the depth of the sediment under the Nile for comparison.

oh hey, you included the diefenbunker there too, wasn't expecting that i used to pass by it every day on the way to school, it's a neat tour

Not seeing Ed Harris on this.

I did Google it, and it was even more amazing than I was expecting!

Looking into Naica now... omg. 😮😎

Oh neat, this is how I learned of SNOLAB! It's in my home province but I'd never heard of it

Wouldn't want to get a boot stuck in the mud under Lake Baikal.

But where is my hole?

Also relatively new, Onaping Depth mine at 2635m below surface, or ~2360m below sea level.

Which of these holes is round and which are square? Asking for my friend Bernard Cribbins. (If you get this reference you're officially old.)

I love the Google trend data. Huge spike, right as this comic was posted. x5000% rise, almost certainly all from xkcd

The largest hole was too big to put on this chart, which is, of course, your mother

This is my favorite doodle about holes. So far...

Thanks ! Fascinating !!

That crevasse is benthicc

You might find it sassy or clever to just casually ignore the hole Kong jumps down to reach the Hollow Earth, but I bet you won't be quite so sassy when one of those gnarly dinosaur monster things decides to climb back up here for a snack. Enjoy the blindfold because my eyes are wiiiide open bucko

Nice! and then there’s HyperK, not very deep but a very large underground cavern

This is really great.

Hey Grungle Screams aren't always loud—some die in the throat and fall as tears on the keyboard. I'm choking on mine. Please visit my page and read the pinned post. Don't let us disappear. 🙏

Country Joe and the Fish. Playing on a flatbed truck in a dirt lot.

Wait ... where's the one dug by Kissin' Kate Barlow?

Love the “oops!” For Lake Peigneur!

www.sandia.gov/labnews/1998...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

pubs.usgs.gov/of/1999/0158/

And there's Finland, too🇫🇮♥️

Sick, I've been in two of these holes!

If you measure a hole's depth by how far the bottom is beneath the surface then if you drill a hole to 10 metres beneath the other side of the planet then you have spent trillions drilling a 10 metre deep hole.

So when do the Mole Men show up? www.imdb.com/title/tt0044...

Thank you for including the Sydney Opera House parking lot in this list of confusing and terrifying holes. The people need to know. I would have posted this earlier but I was still driving in circles to get close enough to the surface so I had reception.

THAT's how deep Deepwater Horizon is?? O_O

As a non-mining tourist, I suppose Gällivare offers the deepest option then!

The Last man Alive by Alexander Neill might be what uou are looking for

It's called "Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson (more or less).

HOLES

Interesting

Russia be disturbing the

That wouldn't work because you'd need to get all that equipment to the bottom of the ocean, where it isn't designed to work.

Thank you Mr Yelnats

Somewhere beneath the lowest point on this chart are the Epstein files.

This is fab. The only UK entry is a thing I had never heard of and was fascinating ( see www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/utili... ). We also have the second-deepest mine in Europe at 1400m ( www.icl-uk.uk/how-deep-is-... ) but it is a long way down the world list.

That you use the proper name of Diefenbunker shows your true worth. Well done, eh.

I am happy the Kamiokande is here. Truly a top 5 hole full of water

!!!

loved the neutrino detecting salt mine which may or may not collapse section

The book about Project Mohole ("A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea", 1961) is really good.

Woodingdean yay!

Soudan underground laboratory is absent from this and it's the only hole that deep I have been in D:

60-70% of your stuff is over my head. I follow you for stuff like this. Cool!

Mining is like 10% of Australia's GDP! ... That's a pretty good car park tho

Wieliczka mentioned

i can't believe you didn't include the biggest hole, the ass. everyone goes around saying "so and so is the biggest asshole i've ever met" and it doesn't get representation, smh.

Cthonophobia is a more general fear of the underground. Speluncaphobia is more for tunnels & tight spaces. (One of my brothers did spelunking for a few years; he was nuts.) Bathophobia is probably closest, fear of depths, though most often for deep water. Probably need a new portmanteu word.

I didn't know there was a mohole IRL before this. I only knew about the one in Kerbal Space Program. (it even ranks first in search results for me)

How good is this graphic at approximating exhaustiveness (and thus belying it presents salient holes)?

You got to go dig 'em

Lots of oops in there

What those "oops" in Restof Salt Mine, Lake Peigneu and Pantal Remis Mine mean?

Where’s that digging machine from The Core?

What do you mean, “sediments under…” oh no. Oh no, no no, I don’t know why, but this one terrifies me.

Omfg this is literally the only time I have ever seen the hole in north bay mentioned thats not on wiki. My husband worked down there for years. Nice little town

I regret to inform you you have misspelled 'Retsof Salt Mine' as 'Restof Salt Mine'.

@xkcd.com, thank you for all you do. This is a particularly delightful piece. You are a beautiful human.

woodingdean water well mention!

That gold mine in South Africa definitely triggered my claustrophobia.

Holey moley

Crazy that with all the caves and mines and such, the deepest point a human can reach is still the Marianas Trench.

Holy...!!

www.unilad.com/news/world-n... Its no where as deep as these other holes, but I always think about this one.

This has noita energy

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Well no; I'm a Centaur, not a Dwarf.

Heat is much more difficult to turn into electricity than energetic photons. Most of our designs to do so also requires a place that's much colder.

Turning heat into electricity is hella inefficient and hard.

interesting!

The name of underground city in Turkey is actually Derinkuyu, whose literal translation is "deep well".

saddam hussein hiding place?

I lived across the road from the Retsof mine in the 70s.