How long would it take to get to the Earth's core?
The time it takes to drill through the important half of the inner core would take 1,140 years. Add up all those numbers and you get – drumroll please – a grand total of 10,260 years to drill into the true center of the Earth using conventional drilling technology.
The pressure in the Earth's core is more than 3,000 times the pressure at the bottom of our deepest ocean. The temperature is more than 5,000°C. Your poor little tunnelling machine would be crushed to a pea and then cooked to a bubble of gas long before it could get anywhere near Earth's core.
Just getting to the center of the Earth and surviving is impossible. The Earth's core is about 9,000°F—as hot as...
Drilling was stopped in August 1994 at 8,578 metres (28,143 ft) of depth due to lack of funds and the well itself was mothballed.
As depth increases into the Earth, temperature and pressure rise. Temperatures in the crust increase about 15 °C per kilometer, making it impossible for humans to exist at depths greater than several kilometers, even if it was somehow possible to keep shafts open in spite of the tremendous pressure.
In a word, no. The center of the Earth is roughly 3,959 miles (6,371 km) down. The deepest hole that was ever drilled was the Kola Superdeep Borehole, at 7.6 miles (12.26 km) deep. That's 0.19% of the way to the center of the Earth.
The only thing that could stop the Earth's spin would be if another planet crashed into it. Even if this happened, it is more likely that it would change the way Earth spins, not stop it altogether.
You'd soon arrive at the inner core, around 5 million meters below the surface. The inner core is one giant sphere of solid iron, so it would definitely be challenging to get through. But if you did find a way, you'd soon hit the halfway point, about 6.4 million meters down, also known as the center of the Earth.
That led to the conclusion that the temperature of the center of the Earth is about 6000 degrees Celsius - a temperature about 9% higher than what exists on the surface of the Sun.
Humans have drilled over 12 kilometers (7.67 miles) in the Sakhalin-I. In terms of depth below the surface, the Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 retains the world record at 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) in 1989 and still is the deepest artificial point on Earth.
How far do you have to dig to get to the Earth's core?
The average distance to the centre of the Earth is 6,371 km or 3,959 miles. In other words, if you could dig a hole 6,371 km, you'd reach the center of the Earth. At this point you'd be in the Earth's liquid metal core.