Behemoth is the only word that comes to mind as I discuss, with mouth agape, about the deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu. JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, launched a venture in 2005 to take the deepest cores into the earth’s crust following the route of Nautilus in Jules Verne’s novel. The deepest . . . → Read More: Chikyu Vs. The Earthquake