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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

This part of Indiana I live in is pretty flat. Dull, right? So I figure, why not have a volcano? Now... I get my magic drill machine that can drill as deep as I want it to drill.

If I drill a deep enough hole, say through the crust of the Earth, will it turn into a volcano?

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The closest eruption was the snag point I was thinking. We're relatively near a fault line, but I don't know of any volcanoes for a very, very long distance.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of you’re talking new Madrid fault line in southern Illinois then you’re kinda close but a couple hundred-ish miles away even if you’re in Evansville Indiana area. I think the closest volcano is in Washington state to us.

Please don’t make a volcano in southern Indiana, my family in southern Illinois probably won’t enjoy being between a volcano and a major tectonic fault both lol

Edit: just to antagonize any Spaniards reading this, we don’t pronounce muh-drid like it should be, we say mad-rid here in southern Illinois. Fun stuff, idk why we screw it and Cairo both up

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You don't even want to know how people pronounce Terre Haute where I live.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tear-ra hoe-te

Think I did that right but not sure on how to spell out how we say haute in a southern Illinois accent.

If you’re a Hoosier from south of Indianapolis then we likely speak very similarly

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I hear "Terr Hoot" all the time. Why "hoot?" I have no idea.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ah that one is different then

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And it's in Vigo county, which is either pronounced Vee-go or Vy-go. I've seen Ghostbusters 2, so I know how it's pronounced

[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oddly it’s the same in New Mexico, where people should know better. There’s a town between Santa Fe and Albuquerque called New MAD-rid.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Even worse since some level of Spanish should be understood by most everyone in the southwest lol

[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It was a mining town, so I thought that probably it was named/renamed by non-Hispanic Europeans. But why would they call it Madrid? So I have no idea.

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