Could You Dig to the Earth’s Core?

What if you never stopped digging into the earth? Day one, you start [music] in your backyard with a $20 shovel and zero plan. 5 m down, it's dirt and worms. [music] Boring. At 20 m, you hit old coins and some pottery. Turns out your house sits on a colonial era dump site. You [music] sell the artifacts and buy a reinforced steel shovel. At 100 m, groundwater [music] explodes into the shaft and floods everything. Instead of quitting, you install pumps, [music] concrete lining, ventilation. Your backyard now has investors. At 300 m, you uncover a full dinosaur fossil. [music] Museums start bidding. You sell naming rights. The Backyardosaurus. New industrial equipment unlocked. At 1,000 m, you strike lithium. Tech companies call you directly. [music] You build a drilling tower. Neighbors move. Property value somehow increases. At 3,000 m, you break into a massive crystal cavern untouched by humans. You charge [music] for live stream access. Merch drops. At 10,000 m, heat passes 350° F. Electronics [music] fry. You install cooling systems and diamond forged excavation heads. Costs millions. You shrug. At 30,000 m, you breach the mantle. Governments send letters telling you to stop. You frame them. At 2.9 million m, sensors [music] detect liquid iron. You announce core mining rights like it's beachfront property. Final depth 6.3 [music] million m. The inner core gravity equal in every direction. You're floating, trapped at the center of the planet. You're the richest person on earth and you can't leave