Eli5 – Why is it so difficult to dig to the Earth’s core?

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The most central part of the Earth’s interior would require drilling approximately which is 6,370 kilometers (20,898,950 ft)

The deepest drilling ever conducted in world history is only 12 kilometers (39370,1 ft)

Why is so hard and and is the effort worth it? Or we only will find more rocks ?

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There’s a story about Russians who had a big plan to just drill to the center of the earth. The reason they stopped was they said it got extremely hot. Too hot to handle really.

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