Digging a hole to China

[Xtrema]

Well, you know the old saying you dig deep enough, you'll end up in China? No really.

http://map.pequenopolis.com/index.php?lang=en

[Ekliptix]

I'd have a water related problem.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Nice... I end up near the antarctic... I assume most of you do as well.

[hussein]

Some where in south america I think...

[snowboard]

what movie was that from
i remember way back when we tired to dig a hole to china in an empty lot after watching a movie about the lochness monster or something.

[msommers]

French Southern & Antarctic Lands

Didn't even know this place existed! Located right in between the Indian and Southern Ocean

[GTS Jeff]

The Earth's core has a molten metal component. How you gonna dig through a liquid? That's whack.

[ogpog]

Using that site, I ended up dead center in the middle of the ocean between antarctica, australia, and south africa.

[three.eighteen.]

how does gravity work when you're inside the earth?

[Isaiah]

Originally posted by three.eighteen.
how does gravity work when you're inside the earth?

Well.

[msommers]

Originally posted by GTS Jeff
The Earth's core has a molten metal component. How you gonna dig through a liquid? That's whack.

Pfff, using a straw obviously

[DGill]

I cant swim

[DJ Lazy]

I dug my first hole in an Island in the Gulf of Thailand and ended up about 100 miles off the coast of Peru in the Ocean...

Second hole I dug in Cape Town South Africa and ended up prolly about 200-300 miles north of the Hawaiian Islands...


Either way... I better be ready to swim... lol

[h_s]

Originally posted by GTS Jeff
The Earth's core has a molten metal component. How you gonna dig through a liquid? That's whack.

+1

[GTS Jeff]

Originally posted by three.eighteen.
how does gravity work when you're inside the earth?

Originally posted by Isaiah


Well.

The difference is negligible because the distance between the Earth's surface and core isn't much in astronomical terms.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Originally posted by GTS Jeff

The difference is negligible because the distance between the Earth's surface and core isn't much in astronomical terms.

I don't follow. Gravity is a product of the Earth's rather substantial mass. Upon entering the Earth, that mass would affect you from multiple directions instead of the unidirectional force we're used to. Theoretically, if you could create a hollow cavity inside the very center of the Earth (assuming the Earth's mass is distributed equally) you would be "weightless" as the earth's mass/gravity pulls you from all directions at once with equal force.

[GTS Jeff]

Originally posted by BerserkerCatSplat


I don't follow. Gravity is a product of the Earth's rather substantial mass. Upon entering the Earth, that mass would affect you from multiple directions instead of the unidirectional force we're used to. Theoretically, if you could create a hollow cavity inside the very center of the Earth (assuming the Earth's mass is distributed equally) you would be "weightless" as the earth's mass/gravity pulls you from all directions at once with equal force.

Hmm makes sense...

[Shaad]

Wouldnt you actually be crushed instead?

a little of topic but still simular. Isnt the earths core believed to be a molting ball of iron and gold and other heavy metels? Massive metals being more effected by gravity and finding its way to the core. The core would also be spining the opposite direction as the earth and creating friction and an electric charge that explains polization? our magnetic poles?

any geology or geophysic people out there? I have no idea, not my area.

[Zephyr]

Originally posted by BerserkerCatSplat


I don't follow. Gravity is a product of the Earth's rather substantial mass. Upon entering the Earth, that mass would affect you from multiple directions instead of the unidirectional force we're used to. Theoretically, if you could create a hollow cavity inside the very center of the Earth (assuming the Earth's mass is distributed equally) you would be "weightless" as the earth's mass/gravity pulls you from all directions at once with equal force.

That's a trippy thought. Guess I need a jet pack and scuba gear...

[schurchill39]

I would end up just off of the french southern and antartic lands... Given I started to dig in my back yard.

To end up in the hong kong area you'd pretty much have to start digging in argentina