The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever

nautil.us

22 pointsanarbadalov4 comments

relevant (and fun!) xkcd:

(xkcd seems to say deepwater horizon is deeper on an absolute scale)

Was deeper!

That surprised me, too. Now I want to learn more about deep water drilling.

they delved too greedily and too deep...

This quote matches far better what Deepwater Horizon did.