Unexplainable is a show all about unanswered scientific questions. Noah Hasenfeld asks reporter Bird Pinkerton to answer one of Jules Verne's big, wild questions: Can you go around the Earth super, super fast? And in a roundabout way, it wound up changing how we understood the Earth itself. Get your fill at House of Macadamias. They have a high quality range of delicious bars, purified oil, and nuts.
Sixty years ago, geologists tried to drill down through the Earth’s crust to pull up a piece of the Earth’s mantle. Their mission didn’t go exactly as planned. But it sowed the seeds for a new field of science that’s helped us rewrite not only the history of the planet, but, potentially, our definitions of life itself.
The documentaries featured in this episode are "The First Deep Ocean Drilling: Mohole, Phase 1" and "Project Mohole: Report No. 1."
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