Holes

halamadrid

What are all those oops for?

Avicebron

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

lambdaone

I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.

cbarrick

Explain xkcd has links to the Wikipedia articles for each hole. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3266:_Holes

WithinReason

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.

letmevoteplease

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

neilv

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

dvh

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."

underlipton

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

js2

Can we update the link to https://xkcd.com/3266/ Anyone who wants the large image can click/tap the image, but the revere is harder to do. In the other direction, Mt. Everest is 8,848.86 meters above sea level. I guess we don't include Lake Tahoe and/or Crater Lake because even though they're deep(ish), their bottoms are above way sea level?

thunderbong

XKCD always has a mobile version. You need add a m. prefix - https://m.xkcd.com/3266/ Helps to see the alt-text if you're on a phone.

sheepybloke

It's funny this came out today! Just at lunch we were googling the highest and lowest capitals of the world. Lowest is Baku in Azerbaijan, at -28m!

ozyschmozy

Funny that he misspelled one (derinku_y_u, literally meaning deep well), given all the effort that clearly went into it.