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I see D.H. did a more exact analysis that showed that the air has to be a supercritical fluid and no longer a gas. The reason that the pressure gets so high in the calculations is that the Ideal Gas Law assumes that air is infinitely compressible. As we go down the hole not only would the air be increasing in pressure due to the weight of all of the gas above us, the density of that gas would be increasing with that increasing pressure resulting in exponential growth to the pressure and density. Sooner or later the IGL will fail.