BUS
STOP

25¢

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TODAY’S PAGE IS GEOLOGICALLY UNREASONABLE

You Have
Scrolled
4,000 Kilometers

Street level is behind you almost immediately. The rest is mostly hot rock and increasingly poor website maintenance.

I / CRUST

The shallow part
is crowded.

Roots, pipes, basements, worms, three subway lines and every earring that left the house “for five minutes.”

1,482 UNSENT DRAFTS

TIME CAPSULE OPEN IN 2094
OR WHEN BORED

Commercial drilling has barely scratched 12.3 km.
You have a scrollbar.

II / LITHOSPHERE

The rocks begin
keeping records.

Pressure archives everything. Granite remembers a parking garage. Basalt retains a faint impression of a loading spinner.

FOSSIL CACHE · CIRCA 2011

IMG_0042_FINAL_FINAL.jpg

III / UPPER MANTLE

Not molten.
Just taking its time.

The mantle is solid rock that flows over millions of years. A glacier, if the glacier were 1,400°C and deeply uninterested in your schedule.

COMMON MISCONCEPTION
~~UNDERGROUND OCEAN OF LAVA~~
VERY PATIENT SOLID

IV / TRANSITION ZONE

Even minerals
change their minds.

Atoms fold into denser arrangements. The page narrows. Blue ringwoodite holds water inside its crystal structure, which feels like showing off.

EXTINCT GROUP CHAT · COMPRESSED 743 KM

are we still doing dinner
whatever works
sorry just seeing this
👍

AN OLD OCEAN FLOOR

STILL DESCENDING

V / LOWER MANTLE

1,700 kilometers
of serious rock.

This is most of the descent. No gift shop. No hidden civilization. Just immense pressure and one increasingly audible layout engine.

BROWSER LAYOUT ENGINE

CSS

HTML

PX

<div>margindisplay</div>

Recalculating this entire planet on every scroll

VI / Dʺ

Site maintenance.

At the base of the mantle, seismic waves behave strangely. So does the staff.

VII / OUTER CORE

Finally:
actual liquid.

Iron and nickel circulate around the solid inner core, generating Earth’s magnetic field and catching unsecured page furniture.

DEPTH ACHIEVED