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Please don't give the HFT's ideas, they'll probably do it and cause a half dozen tsunamis in the process.

If you don't like HFTs, this is an idea you'd probably like to give them. Nobody has ever drilled through the Mohorovicic. It is unclear whether or not it is possible to do so.

The most-likely outcome is a few happy geologists/geophysicists and a number of very-sad HFT underwriters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_disconti...

It says it's 10 to 20 km below the ocean floor. Are we as humans been digging in the ocean floor that deep, or even at all? That sounds like sci-fi to me, I'd love to learn more if that's actually feasible.

USSR, land, 12,262 metres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

US, sea, 183 m below the sea floor in 3,600 m of water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole

Apparently the deepest oil well at sea was 10km deep, in the Mexico Gulf, drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig

https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-frequency-traders-push-clo...

You know, if HFT's will be the agents of future MegaInfrastructure spend, so be it.

I long for the days when the US loved building infrastructure.

Anyone interested in the topic, this is a great movie — fiction but very close to reality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hummingbird_Project

...and create a supervolcano.

We already have one of those on land in the US.

We have two. I suspect that you are thinking of Yellowstone, but there is also the Long Valley Caldera in Eastern California. The Mammoth Mountain area.

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