• Question: why cant humans go further down into the earth?

    Asked by bump43egg to Jess, Jenny, Janis on 11 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by away43egg.
    • Photo: Janis Aleksans

      Janis Aleksans answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      The reason for that is that it is incredibly hot there and pressure is very high. For example, the temperature increases by about 25 degrees for every km you go down. So it is 100 degrees at 4 km already. The deepest humans have ever reached was 13 km. At this depth the diamonds, which are the hardest rock we know and which were used to drill there, couldn’t take it anymore. Maybe one day we will have technology allowing us to withstand such high temperatures and pressure, but we don’t have it yet.

    • Photo: Jessica Franklin

      Jessica Franklin answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      The deeper we go into the Earth the hotter it gets and the higher the pressure, we simply couldn’t survive down there! There is some bacteria however that can survive in strange places on Earth that humans can’t such as in volcanoes!

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