Science Going Too Far?

Do these alleged scientists not do the basic research of watching B-movies & reading comic books? This sort of thing never ends well.

(CNN) — Humans have been to the Moon and explored almost every corner of the planet -- but there's one place they have never been.

A group of Japanese scientists said they plan to be the first group to successfully drill into the Earth's mantle, the planet's vast molten-rock interior, which lies just beneath the outer crust.

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