Holes

Hover text is "If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do."

The story of the hand-dug well: https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/utilities/woodin...

Lake Baikal sediment layer almost as deep as the Mariana Trench:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydr...

[...] and below this lies some 7 km (4.3 mi) of sediment, placing the rift floor some 8–11 km (5.0–6.8 mi) below the surface, the deepest continental rift on Earth.

Explain xkcd has links to the Wikipedia articles for each hole.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3266:_Holes

What are all those oops for?

I forget how cool Lake Baikal is until it shows up randomly and I'm reminded to go look it up again.

What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?

You cannot convince me that something ridiculous wasn't covered up wrt Deepwater Horizon.

I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.

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