Show S the earth in danger from the drill professor joseph F jones answers in a recent issue of the popular science monthly aba question Is it safe to drill the earth too much the professor assumes the earth to be a hollow sphere filled with a gaseous substance called by us natural gas and he thinks that tap ping these reservoirs will cause disastrous explosions resulting from the lighted gas coming in contact with that which is escaping he compares the earth to a balloon floated and kept distended by the gas in the intermor int eror which if exhausted will cacao the to col lapse aal act the motion of the earth in its orbit cause it to lose its place among the heavenly bodies and fall to pieces another writer thinks that drilling should be prohibited by stringent laws he too thinks there is a possibility of an explosion though from another cause should such a disaster occur the country along the gas belt from toledo through oh 0 indiana and kentucky will be ripped tp to the depth of 1200 feat or 1500 feet and flopped over like a pancake leaving a chasm through which the waters of lake erie will come down filling the ohio and mississippi valleys and blotting them out forever still another theorist has investigated the gag wells with telephones and delicate thermometers and he announces startling discoveries he distinguished sounds like the boiling of rocks and estimated that a mile and one half or so beneath the ohio and indiana gas field the temperature of the earth is decrees the scientist says an immense cavity exists that here the gas is stored that a mile below the bottom of ane cavity is a mass of roaring seething flame which is gradually eating into the rock floor of the cavern and thinning it eventually the flames will reach the gas and a terrific explosion will ensue |