An oceanic question

[Foxaèr]

The Challenger Deep is the deepest known area of the ocean.

But I was just thinking, is it at all possible for there to be parts of the ocean where there is no bottom seabed? Is it possible for the ocean to span downward all the way to the opposite side of the globe?

[Peebothuhlu]

At work.

Uhm.... No?

You have all that molten rock that tends to leak out of volcanoes in the way.

Cheers.

[Fireball]

Not with a hot, molten core.

Looks like Peebo beat me by a few seconds! Same answer, though.

[Angrboda]

Matter of fact it's all dark.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Not to mention that it would flood Pellucidar.

Boru

[no one]

I feel eclipsed.

[Brian37]

The Challenger Deep is the deepest known area of the ocean.

But I was just thinking, is it at all possible for there to be parts of the ocean where there is no bottom seabed? Is it possible for the ocean to span downward all the way to the opposite side of the globe?

No.

[The Architect Of Fate]

The Challenger Deep is the deepest known area of the ocean.

But I was just thinking, is it at all possible for there to be parts of the ocean where there is no bottom seabed? Is it possible for the ocean to span downward all the way to the opposite side of the globe?

No

[brewer]

god plugged all those holes



godamit god

[Paleophyte]

No. As others have mentioned.

Aside from needing a hole over 1000 times deeper than the Challenger Deep it would need to go all the way through the Earth's crust, mantle, liquid outer core and solid inner core. The physical impossibilities of that become even more entertaining when you consider that the inner core is rotating at a very slightly different speed than the rest of the planet.

Oh, and your water would cease to be liquid a few hundred km down where the pressure got high enough that it'd become some strange ice polymorph.

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god plugged all those holes



godamit god

Good thing too. It's bad enough with what we're loosing over the edge. #unsustainable