10 March, 2021 – Episode 815 – How to Hunt Volcanoes

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Conserve Or Use?, A Second Pill, Catnip Deterrent, Sponge Earth, Shortest Story Ever, Volcanic Effects, Interview with Ms. Adventure Volcano Jess Phoenix, Slug Heads, Frog Lungs, Solitary Science, Helpful Traits, Psychedelic Placebos, And Much More…

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The planet on which you are standing is likely nothing like what you imagine it to be.

You might have a picture of the ground beneath as being made up of dirt and rocks,

and the occasional blind mole rat kingdom or dinosaur graveyard.

And, if you dig a little, you would have that belief somewhat confirmed.

Dig a little deeper, and you would begin to discover that what you thought of as the earth…

Is but a porous floating crust of firm detritus upon a thick layer of slushy silicate…

A thin film of cooled minerals on a molten substrate.

Descend deep into the earth, and you will find temperatures and pressures

thousands to millions of times what we experience on the surface;

Rewriting everything you think you know about the normal states of matter on earth.

There is a lot more to the earth than what we can see or touch.

It has a diameter of around 8000 miles

Making it somewhere in the 4000 mile range from surface to core.

Yet the deepest hole we’ve ever drilled is a measly 7 and a half miles deep.

It took over 20 years to get that deep, and fun fact,