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Ogredude
 Post subject: If you dig a hole...
PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:15 pm 
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You know what they used to tell you as a kid... If you went out in the backyard and dug a hole, and kept digging all the way through the Earth, you'd pop out in China.

Would you?

Go check!

http://grad.icmc.usp.br/~cipriani/bighole.php

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/me digs a hole

*sputters* I guess that's the Indian Ocean.

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I think pretty much anywhere in north america ends up in th indian ocean.

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Yeah, but if you start in Hawaii you end off in Botswana.
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Apparently, to end in China, you need to start in Argentina or Chile.

So, obvious problem: cutting a straight hole would also reverse north and south as well as east and west, so if you start in north america, you end in the southern hemisphere. To end in China, you'd just need to start further south.
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