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Is it possible to dig all the way through the Earth to the other side?

  • Written by Andrew Gase, Assistant Professor of Geoscience, Boise State University
imageWorkers at the drilling site for a geothermal energy plant in Neustadt-Glewe, Germany.Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Imagesimage

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