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Top European scientists say they are ready to commence an exciting voyage of discovery - to plumb the very depths of the Earth's core, and find out the mechanism by which the planet's magnetic poles disappear or reverse themselves. A titanically powerful machine employing nuclear atom-smasher technology, diamond "anvils" and …

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  1. metaspective

    Not!

    This is a misleading headline - go to the bottom of the class/Earth's core.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Understatement of the year

    'We know even less about warm dense matter believed to exist in the core of larger planets'

    That's a bit like calling the Blessed Paris merely 'warm and dense'.

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    1. Scorchio!!
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      Re: Understatement of the year

      Well, like Dame Edna Everage she's moist too. ;-)

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  3. Gusty O'Windflap

    but how can they?

    without Doug McClure?

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  4. BristolBachelor Gold badge

    "The Earth's interior is literally inaccessible and today it is easier to reach Mars than to visit even the base of the Earth's thin crust ... "

    That's only easy for you to say because you don't know what it takes to reach Mars (let alond land on it and survive!)

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    1. Trygve
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      Really?

      First successful probe to land on Mars - Viking 1 in 1976. Several more since.

      First successful probe to reach the base of earths crust - several years/decades in the future. Best progress so far, about 1/3 of the way.

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    2. Tchou
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      Headmaster

      Are you allright?

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  5. TeeCee Gold badge
    Coat

    I have an idea.

    "it is easier to reach Mars than to visit even the base of the Earth's thin crust....."

    If you drill a really deep, wide hole in Russia, base of Earth's crust visit you!

    (Actually I think this works anywhere, but the gag only works in Russia....)

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  6. Stanislaw
    Boffin

    Careful with that laser, Eugene...

    ... we don't want to set off a resonance cascade.

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  7. Daniel Evans

    I did snigger somewhat

    "It is easier to reach Mars than to visit even the base of the Earth's thin crust"

    Try telling the Russians that...

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  8. Ugotta B. Kiddingme
    Facepalm

    sigh...

    [insert standard "haven't they seen such and such disaster movie?!?" here]

    The (unintentionally) funniest one was about a nuclear missile fired into a hole into the ground which caused a crack. Said crack raced around the world and would theoretically cause the earth to split apart, let all the hot and squishy bits in the center leak out, and result in our abrupt and violent demise.

    Crack In The World

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065

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  9. laird cummings
    Mushroom

    No "Earth-shattering Kaboom," then?

    How dissapointing. And here I was, thinking we could finally get that good view of Venus.

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  10. The Stainless Steel Cat
    Alert

    Ob. Dr Who reference...

    ...and I turned round and they were *all* wearing eyepatches!

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