­xkcd thread

Ooh. DoctorOuttaHair! Hmmm. :thinking:

Much better than my feeble effort! Great choice! :+1: :+1:

Then when you’re done with a thread you can just say “I’m OuttaHair”.

“It’s ok, I still have some nice, cool gas clouds that aren’t collapsing. As long as nothing ionizes them, I can continue to enjoy their … HEY! NO!!!”

This one makes me smile. “In the beginning…”

Frankly things started going to pot when the quark-gluon plasma froze out.

Well at least these things make light instead of sucking it up. Hey, wait, what’s that really big star doing! No…, C’mon!!!

To hell with turtles; it’s unanticipated consequences all the way down. :man_facepalming:

Little known fact: The Creator’s favorite word these last couple billion years has been D’oh!!

“Depending what corners of the internet you hang out on, ‘regular’ may at times awkwardly coexist with ‘sexy.’”

Lame.

GB
What if you sank 1 foot every second?

Beat me to it. Alternative wording “what if you delved too deep, even if not too greedily?”

Brian

It’s fine as long as you don’t disturb Durin’s Bane.

I’d think that, even before the heat did it, the tunnel would collapse in on you.

Continuing to dig once you hit solid rock would be challenging.

I dunno if you actually watched it to the end, but he indeed makes an appearance.

I’d say none of the above to all of the possible death mechanisms, but propose the hole would get more and more unstable until it would collapse and entomb you, as has happened to some individuals who were foolish enough to try to dig deep holes on a beach somewhere-maybe 3-5’ deep. Yes, depends on the nature of the soil and rock in question, but it won’t take too long if it is all soil for the first 5-20 feet.

Nah, you can get a meter-wide tube. As you dig, it will slowly slide into the hole, providing shoring as you go. And for bonus points, make it highly insulating so you can get even deeper before the heat kills you.

I’m sure OSHA would approve.

Even granite, even steel, would eventually give way to the pressure and flow laterally. But I don’t know enough materials science to know what modulus to search for to determine that.

Not if you have an unobtainium borer, as outlined in this fine documentary:

“Yes, the cosmic microwave background is great, but what about the earthly microwave foreground?”