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by renewiltord 470 days ago
Look at a cross section of the Earth: https://www.britannica.com/science/oceanic-crust

The deepest bore of all time was 12 km deep. The crust is between 5 km and 100 km and thinnest under the ocean. The numbers involved here are staggering. One might as well hope to stop the Earth's winds with a windmill.