From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!lime!houxg!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Project Mohole
Article-I.D.: ihuxr.393
Posted: Thu Apr 14 12:51:41 1983
Received: Mon Apr 18 22:34:02 1983

Rich Piner's assertion that project Mohole failed due to the
scientific naivte of the project engineers seems in itself to
be naive. It wasn't a netnews project! Also, I recall that the
point of it was just to collect deep samples and make studies
of the conditions. After all, no one had ever sampled the actual
mantle. It did have a lot of problems, but as I dimly recall, they
achieved some measure of success, in terms of their stated aims.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew