Monday, September 8, 2008

Dig a hole....

I stumbled across this website tonight; one of those completely useless but still kind of fun little gadgets.  It tells you the point on the Earth exactly opposite from you; in other words if you could dig a hole through the center of the Earth it shows where you'd come out.  Opposite from me is somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean off the southwest tip of Australia.  So much about digging to China!

Actually I should have realized you can't do that; the US and China are both entirely in the northern hemisphere, and tunneling through the center of the Earth would by definition take you to the other side of both the Equator and the Prime Meridian, so it wouldn't happen anyway.  Childhood dreams are smashed....

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