This part of Indiana I live in is pretty flat. Dull, right? So I figure, why not have a volcano? Now… I get my magic drill machine that can drill as deep as I want it to drill.
If I drill a deep enough hole, say through the crust of the Earth, will it turn into a volcano?
Instead of drilling a hole, another way to do it is to slam an asteroid on the other side of the planet.
https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-caused-indias-deccan-traps/
The Red Mars series of books by Kim Stanley Robinson includes a range of measures that humans take to terraform the red planet, one of which is building robots to drill “moholes,” or holes that reach the Mohorovicic discontinuity between crust and mantle layers. Yes, they are giant volcanoes, and in the books the outgassing from these volcanoes is a strategy to increase the density and particularly the infrared absorption of the Martian atmosphere.
Hello fellow Hoosier, best of luck with your volcano drill/supervillain lair construction. I look forward to your deflatification of our horizon.
When i was 8, I use to think if i dug far enough i would get to china.
What about building a giant fake volcano?
You could use it as camouflage for a giant cannon to attack the moon. Fucking moon…
Kill the moon!
The crust is about 45km ish thick where you are. Get digging!
And the deepest hole ever dug was 12km
