[post_page_title]A curious irony[/post_page_title]
The Kola Superdeep Borehole project highlights a very strange irony indeed about humankind and its scientific pursuits. It may not have ever occurred to you, but we actually know less about what’s right underneath our feet than we do about what’s on the other side of our solar system.
The best scientists the Soviet Union had to offer could only make it seven and a half miles below ground. Meanwhile, 25 years before the project ended, the same country sent Yuri Gagarin into outer space – a distance of 76 miles.
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