How Deep Underground does Black Mesa Go?

[PS Vita]

I was just thinking, and I started to wonder how deep underground Black Mesa actually goes. Freeman seems to take a while to get to the surface but it can’t be too deep if the marines were able to get down there. What do you guys think?

[Doctor Go-Go]

It's probably like a city down there. They have sewer systems, generators, massive storage facilities. A train system. Cargo bays that look like they must go 50 yards below the surface if not 100.

That would be an ideal storage sight. If you had a train yard and station on the surface and shipping dock you could transport box cars, flat beds via train and shipping containers via trucks and ships then load em onto those cargo bays, take em down into the warehouse. From what they depicted those underground warehouse look like they are about 50 yards if not 100 wide.

They had helipads with attack helicopters on standby so they were prepped for a high risk.

There's all sorts of things going on in this world that you haven't seen and will never see. When it comes to security people understand bad things can happen to those who can't keep things under their belt. So by common sense when you get involved with high interest investors ... it's a jungle out there and plenty of those investors are criminals. ALSO the federal governments are involved. Their prime concern would be SMOOTH OPERATION If a few people must be killed to keep things discrete and operating smoothly then so be it. Don't assume they wouldn't do it.

[PsyWarVeteran]

5 meters.

[Doctor Go-Go]

PsyWarVeteran původně napsal:

5 meters.

O_O NO WAY! That's like dangerously close the earth's core.

[PsyWarVeteran]

Doctor Go-Go původně napsal:

PsyWarVeteran původně napsal:

5 meters.

O_O NO WAY! That's like dangerously close the earth's core.

Cool.

[Vzzdak]

The Earth's DIAMETER is 12,742 km.

As far as digging into the Earth's mantle goes, the mantle is about 2,900 km, though it should be noted that the deepest that a mine has (currently) been dug is just over 4 km.

For the 4km mine, they need to pump a slurry of ice to bring the temperature down from 66 C to 30 C. In other words, even for a depth of 4 km, there is a significant need for surface level infrastructure to maintain viable underground operations.

So as to the depth of the Black Mesa facilitiy, perhaps consider the environmental controls needed at its greatest depths, and compare to existing mines around the world.

[Vzzdak]

Does that sound about right, Dr. GG?

[Doctor Go-Go]

Vzzdak původně napsal:

Does that sound about right, Dr. GG?

People always said what couldn't be done. Why because they know what couldn't be done the EASY way. what can't or can be done depends on how much labor, resources and modifications they want to put into getting it done.

We're taking about going below the surface and around the underside of the surface. Not burrowing straight down. We're talking a hundred yards to a few square acres of space.

No where near 1 kilo deep. Not even close. But it could span a kilometer, but I really doubt it would be anywhere close to 1 kilometer in span.

All depends on how much the installations would be worth to the owners. If we are talking high echelon storing loads of rockets, tanks aircraft down there among all sorts of other equipment and experiments there is no limit to their budget, no expense is spared. Whatever they need they order it.

[SV BOY]

Kind of odd to measure a video game world in real life metrics, I remember that someone said 1 unit = 2 cm, going by that rule, every door is either small or big, and the players height is 144 cm, which yknow, its not a height of a normal adult like gordon is, its probably really hard to measure the game's metrics into a real life

[phillippi2]

Black Mesa is a Mesa. A mesa is like a Mountain with a flat top. The organization called Black Mesa is named after the mesa. It's built on top of the mesa. As such, the facility likely doesn't go all the way to sea level.

[PS Vita]

phillippi2 původně napsal:

Black Mesa is a Mesa. A mesa is like a Mountain with a flat top. The organization called Black Mesa is named after the mesa. It's built on top of the mesa. As such, the facility likely doesn't go all the way to sea level.

That actually makes a lot of sense

[Valden21]

TheGinginator původně napsal:

phillippi2 původně napsal:

Black Mesa is a Mesa. A mesa is like a Mountain with a flat top. The organization called Black Mesa is named after the mesa. It's built on top of the mesa. As such, the facility likely doesn't go all the way to sea level.

That actually makes a lot of sense

We even see part of that during the "Surface Tension" level. When you reach the part where you're outside and moving around the scaffolding attached to the cliff, you can look straight down and see the bottom of a canyon, with a river flowing far beneath you. Black Mesa's far above sea level.

[tisika]

You seem to go very deep in the whole game, going down into the rocket silo during Blast Pit, and even deeper into an old rail system during On a Rail. So one can assume at least more than 100 meters. However it's quite implied Black Mesa is built INTO a mesa, which means you may not be going that deep below sea level.