What If You Built a Pipe to the Bottom of the Mariana Trench?

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This is the longest underwater pipe on Earth. It stretches to the bottom of the deepest place on the planet, where only a few people have ever visited.
And we're about to take you on an epic journey to construct it. What materials would be suitable for the task? What creatures would lurk around you? And at what point would constructing the pipe become unbearable?

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