A project costing at least $10 billion designed to send a probe to bore to the centor of the earth was proposed in Nature magazine this week.
“Planetary missions have enhanced our understanding of the solar system and how planets work, but no comparable exploratory effort has been directed towards the Earth’s interior. Space probes have reached a distance of about 40 astronomical units (6,000 million km, or 3,700 million miles), but subterranean probes have descended only some 10km (6.2 miles).”
Here's the article for anyone that is interested.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-...-680825,00.html
Is this a good use of $10 billion in public funds? I would rather have seen the super-collider finished in Texas as far as big money science projects go. Is any science project worth $10 billion?