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		habosa on Oct 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle "It will be the equivalent of dangling a steel string the width of a human hair in the deep end of a swimming pool and inserting it into a thimble 1/10 mm wide on the bottom, and then drilling a few meters into the foundations" Wow, that quote really put it all into perspective for me.

jofer on Oct 3, 2012 [–]

And to put it in even more prespective, we're just talking about drilling through the equivalent of the skin of an apple.

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