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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+163I'm sorry but you will not burst my dreams of ending up in China...
- debtman7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+88
Gravity is the least of your problems. When you dig to the center the lava will obviously flow out and destroy everyone on the surface. And that's assuming you somehow manage to dig past the mole men... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+70No offence dude but that isn't what irony is.
- Sanitarium, on 10/21/2007, -18/+80A digging story on digg: Irony...
- Sanitarium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50Meh... Its almost there. ;-)
Kinda ironic I got a post about irony wrong. :p
No? Still wrong? - jbsheblak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46@limitbreakerx
not to refute your point, but I think digging through the earth without a ladder twice the size of the earth's radius would be a little silly. You've got to get out safely somehow... - inkyblue2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43@limitbreakerx
gravity's pull would decrease as you fell, and be zero at the center. assuming no air resistance, though, you're right about the oscillating-back-and-forth thing. unfortunately, with air resistance, your oscillation would decay rapidly and you'd end up just floating around near the center of the tunnel, enjoying the fine 5000 degree C weather. - fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37It's mostly harmless.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Screw these so called "facts"...
In a quest for truthiness I already have my unobtainium digger and my Chinese hat. - archlich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34How do you dig your way through the giant irony center of the earth? =)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32Actually, I think most Americans will end up in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34whats there like a 75% chance it will land in water....
- rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Actually, it's quite a bit higher than that, because land and sea aren't distributed evenly (if you're on land right now, chances are there's land for a few miles around you - decreasing the chance there's water at your antipode). The wikipedia link someone posted below shows the few places where land intersects with land. Not much -- Australia seems to fit nicely right inside the Atlantic ocean, too . Boo.
- roosterjm2k2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30wow, so people in S. America -CAN- dig to china!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29it's like rain on your wedding day.
...wait.... - nottidredd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26not really. I think its kind of dissapointing. just about anywhere you dig in the US you end up in the ocean. I was always told China was on the other side. Bummer....
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25@soccerboy: Someone below pointed out this great map. Basically, only certain parts of South America, China, Greenland, Indonesia, and Antarctica will end up on land. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WorldMapWithAntipodes.png
- Durinthal, on 10/21/2007, -1/+25http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes
- archlich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Same idea, with pictures!
http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Its pretty wet.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I'll end up in the stupid Indian Ocean if I dig through the floor of my house!? Well, I guess there's a 75% chance of that pretty much everywhere...
By the way, to end up in the middle of Hong Kong China, you'd have to dig at the northernmost tip of Argentina. - TheCommodore6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20@limitbreakerx
Gravity decreases as you near the center of the earth because only the mass below you has a gravitational effect on you, the mass that you have passed through has no net gravitational effect because it is attracting you equally from all sides.
As you are falling, gravity is continually accelerating you towards the center. Until, of course, you reach the center, at which point it would no longer be accelerating you. But you would still have a velocity that would carry you past the center. Once you pass the center you would begin to decelerate because gravity is now acting on you again but in the other direction.
I hope that answers your question, it stems from what we have been studying this week in my General Physics I class. - Nitro420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I would end up on the lost island. I hope Kate is still there when I make it. Wish me luck!
- nipterink, on 10/21/2007, -1/+21thank you beakman.
- shoover, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17It seems like you're pretty much destined to drown unless you're in a very small portion of South America.
- amandaw33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Shame I didn't end up over land, woulda been cooler to zoom in.
- fnaqzna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15My parents lied to me as a child.
I'd have to be in South America if I wanted to dig down to China. - clf99, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20that's way cool
- alecperkins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14@limitbreakerx
That's the very idea behind the gravity train: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=696
Assuming perfect conditions, the trip time will always be 42 minutes and you will come to a perfect stop right at your destination. - sotopheavy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Screw China! We've got an ocean on our back side! Thats sort of almost like ocean front property! We're sitting on a gold mine Trebeck!
- shibz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15this is assuming that you dig a perfectly straight hole at a perfect 90 degree angle...
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11WTF is "infinitous" ??? Spellcheck on aisle 1!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Oh, just like your ***** comment is?
- glguy, on 10/21/2007, -2/+12Absolutely not. The author encourages us to believe him, which leads me to believe that he has already done this.
- Nydas, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15@ limitbreakerx:
Who asked you to be all scientific and such? HUH???? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9i also landed in the water ;(
well that is before i landed in liquid hot magma - leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9almost all of Greenland digs to land.
- Dudibob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I end up a fair bit off New Zealand in the Southern Ocean, now all I need is an indestructible spade, a lava proof suit, a diving suit and a lot of time! lol
- zeeeej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@interiot: Sweet. The only North Americans who would be able to end up on land would be way above the Arctic Circle, and when they got where they were going, it would still suck.
- shirtninjay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@billyboobs34,
Bi-curious a bit, hmm? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The entire mainland US ends up in the Indian Ocean.
- g33kfu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The ironing is delicious
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Comment burried for shopping at Wal-Mart
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Just be a hoopy frood and pack your towel, and everything will turn out ok.
- Lane5slacker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11If only the Earth where a sandwich...
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6In prison .. after they find my wife.
- zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah digg me down for pointing out the Earth isn't perfectly round.
Guess what?! It ain't flat either! Grow up. - maximile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ze Frank has a live one on his page - much more responsive.
http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/tool.html - supremesonic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Just don't panic...
- Apostr0phe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6... crap, now where did I put all that unobtanium?
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