Millennium project - traveling through the earth

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50 years ago, when the Americans took the first step on the moon, it was also the geological scientists embarked on the "Reverse Apollo Project" - going through the earth to learn about the common home of humankind.

So far, the most modern drills of human civilization have only scratched the first stratigraphic surface of the earth's crust with a depth of about 2.5 km. The Japanese claimed they had overcome the technical limit to be able to bring the drill down to a depth of 7 km. This success has brought together hundreds of international scientists from Japan, the US, China and other 15 countries to converge in a century-old " Travel through the Earth " project.

The means for this great journey is that the Tikiu ship has the ability to drill deep into the earth a depth of 3 times more than the most modern drilling platforms in the world currently used.

The role of the Japanese in this project is similar to that of the Americans in the international space station, because in addition to the goals that other countries are pursuing, they aspire to know what will happen in the land. Funeral in the nearest and most distant future.

Japan is currently on the intersection of the four most dangerous stratigraphic slides in the world - which attracts up to 20% of global earthquakes. Tokyo is the most dangerous city on the planet because it is located in the most unstable strata with earthquakes appearing suddenly and continuously.

As planned in September 2007, the Tikiu will carry out its first drill in the Pacific Ocean, 600 kilometers southwest of Tokyo. This is a seismic hot spot and there are frequent earthquakes of up to 8 on the Richter scale. Next, Tikiu will carry out a second drill in Indonesia's Sumatra Sea, where a tsunami outbreak last year caused a catastrophe for a number of Southeast Asian countries.

Even though people in this decade only went deep into the earth for about a kilometer, the information collected in such layers of strata also helps people understand where the life we ​​have today comes from. Why do we have only one moon, why dinosaurs and mammoths are extinct, and many other questions. The first steps like that down to the ground are small but it is an indispensable starting point for the descendants to continue to come along with the journey of the heart of the earth.