Jul 6th 2017, 2:11:31
Well, first you need to drill a hole deep enough to get to where the aathenosphere starts to get dehydrated. Then you need someolten metal, actually a fluff ton of molten metal. Historically it's always been hypothesized that it would be molten iron, but the heavier the better. Molten uranium would be great but your going to need thousands of tons.
Now, when you pour the molten metal down the bore hole into the lower crust, it's going to start plunging deeper into the upper mantle and hopefully it will be insulated by the hot dry rock and keep sinking long enough to penetrate the plastic part of the mantle.
All the while it's sinking, you'll be pinging seismic shots off of it to characterize the rock it's dropping through. Eventually, it will slow and get so diffused it will stop being a discernable mass, but until then it would provide some kick ass good science.
It would be prohibively expensive, but we nerdy rock lickers have been dreaming about it for years.
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