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Over the next five years, the team will use a long, hollow, rotating drill to cut and retrieve a cylinder of ice roughly 12 centimetres across.
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Rescue workers told CNN mid-morning Friday that the Plan A drill has cut 41 meters into the rock between early Tuesday morning and late Thursday night.
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Moreover, the laser, which resembles a dental drill in shape, can do things a dentist would never do with a drill, like cut gums.
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Then on New Year's Eve, the drill barge Kulluk had to be cut loose in a severe storm while being towed back to its winter home port in Seattle.
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This was followed in the week by the drill turning in the chosen rock to cut a shallow, 2cm hole.
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Three minutes later, Michael Carrick swept home the second after Valencia had shown enough vision to cut a pass back into his path rather than drill a cross into crowded penalty area.
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The drill used in Plan C would need to cut through some 1, 969 feet (600 meters) of rock and earth, they said.
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The other process, still in use, is to cut a window in an old well's steel casing and then drill horizontally into the oil zone.
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