Ever wondered what would happen if you started digging straight down?

Find out where you’d pop out, here

http://www.freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-other-side-of-the-earth.htm

Smack in the middle of the Atlantic between Spain & North America.

> Ever wondered what would happen if you started digging straight down?

Old news for me. Many many years ago, perhaps even before I was born, my father hand-drew a complete map of the Earth centred on where we lived, which happened to be in Sydney. The opposite point was stretched into a circle around the periphery and a large part of that periphery was the coast of Morocco.

Many years later, a very similar map appeared on the front cover of a World Atlas produced in Australia (a Robinson’s I think), but the centre wasn’t as accurate, using perhaps E150, S35 as the centre point – west of Nowra. My father spotted the difference immediately, the coast of Morocco was nowhere near as dominant on the Atlas’s cover map.

Every few years I take a look at which point on the globe is opposite which. It’s remarkable how few land areas are actually opposite other land areas.

mollwollfumble said:

. It’s remarkable how few land areas are actually opposite other land areas.

Gods plan my son gods plan

For a plain stout, this is pretty impressive.

oops… as you were.

Carmen_Sandiego said:

oops… as you were.

12% is no weakness of stoutness.

Dropbear said:

Ever wondered what would happen if you started digging straight down?

Find out where you’d pop out, here

http://www.freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-other-side-of-the-earth.htm

It’s surprisingly hard to find two spots close to the Equator and also close to sea level.

You’d die from heat exhaustion before you hit the mantle

dv said:

You’d die from heat exhaustion before you hit the mantle

Before your head hits the mantlepiece?

dv said:

You’d die from heat exhaustion before you hit the mantle

Wear a suit made from those tiles the space shuttles used for re-entry.

dv said:

You’d die from heat exhaustion before you hit the mantle

I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life.