[dba-Tech] Jules Vern may have been right

It's water, but not as we know it, Jim    :)

It's worth noting that the temperature at that depth is around 1500°C   

-- 
Stuart

On 29 Mar 2014 at 0:25, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> Everyone knows that Jules Verne, though he predicted many of today's
> realities, was way off, in his fanciful book called "A Journey to the
> Center of the Earth". In this book he described huge oceans of water
> that spanned the globe. He was of course completely wrong but...
> 
> New discoveries suggest that there may be more "hydroxide" water, at a
> depth of 400 to 700 km beneath the surface. That is quite a depth
> considering that the deepest mine is about 4 kilometers and the
> deepest well ever drilled is somewhere around 12 kilometers. But this
> region may have more water available than all the known water, on the
> surface.    
> 
> The implications of this discovery could open far reach
> possibilities...
> 
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140312150229.htm
> 
> Jim   
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