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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on May 25, 2021, 08:42:54 AM
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https://www.antipodesmap.com/#antipodes-map
If you dug a hole all the way through the Earth, where would you end up?
For me, a few hundred miles SE off the tip of South Africa.
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On the other side.
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Middle of the Indian Ocean, maybe 1,000 miles west of Perth.
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Middle of the Indian Ocean, maybe 1,000 miles west of Perth.
Same here as in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Not close to anything.
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Middle of the Indian Ocean, maybe 1,000 miles west of Perth.
Here too. I’d guess about 500 miles from Perth for me.
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Looks like about halfway between Australia and the Cape of Good Hope.
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450 miles, 320 degrees from the French Southern and Antarctic lands. I'm gonna need a bigger boat.
I need to look at moving there. Perfect weather for me, and practically no people. :laugh:
Winter is actually warmer than here, and Summer is around ten deg cooler.
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Antipodes: Middle of the Indian Ocean,
Through to the same latitude on the other side: "Singyang" province, China.
Don't forget that with respect to digging through to the antipodes, once you get to the earth's center, the remaining digging will all be upward.
Nertz to that sez me.
(Incidentally, a corollary of that is there is no gravity at the center of the earth. Or any other body, for that matter. I've been toying with the idea that this is also true for black holes, zero gravity at their centers; don't know if anyone else has dealt with that issue.)
Terry, 230RN
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On the other side.
Well, duh .... :facepalm:
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Help! I'm drowning! In the Indian Ocean west of Australia! And there are sharks around!!! [tinfoil] :rofl:
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The Nazis are going to get you long before you get that far
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Help! I'm drowning! In the Indian Ocean west of Australia! And there are sharks around!!! [tinfoil] :rofl:
Everyone in the northeast US end up in the same are.
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Everyone in the northeast US end up in the same are.
Good! There should be plenty of help around .... [tinfoil] ...... somewhere ..... [tinfoil] :O
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Pretty much any where in the CONUS will put you in the IO.
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Pretty much any where in the CONUS will put you in the IO.
Makes you wonder how the phrase, "digging your way to China" originated. Picking points in China generally put you off the coast of Argentina somewhere. If you figure it's an English language phrase that started in England, London puts you off New Zealand.
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Makes you wonder how the phrase, "digging your way to China" originated. Picking points in China generally put you off the coast of Argentina somewhere. If you figure it's an English language phrase that started in England, London puts you off New Zealand.
Probably the same people who came up with the joke if all Chinese jumped up and down at once
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Everyone in the northeast US end up in the same are.
But if everyone digs a hole to the other end of the world, where will they put all the dirt? That is a lot of holes.
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But if everyone digs a hole to the other end of the world, where will they put all the dirt? That is a lot of holes.
That's easy:
https://youtu.be/9zugv1NdMj4
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Pretty much any where in the CONUS will put you in the IO.
Unless you take a left turn at Cucamonga...
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That's easy:
https://youtu.be/9zugv1NdMj4
The Indians will never suspect a thing.
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Unless you take a left turn at Cucamonga...
I guess so. Going through Albuquerque gets you no where.
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Well hell, I was always told I would end up in China. Over 60 years of beliefs, shattered, next someone will tell me there are more than two genders. :O
I ended up directly east of Cape Town and Southeast of Madagascar. It may be wet but it is a great spot for sport fishing!
bob
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That is a lot of holes.
Maybe we will find Malaysia 370.
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Dead ass in the middle of the ocean! -32.282992, 86.417888 But then again, most of America would be there with me...
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Well hell, I was always told I would end up in China. Over 60 years of beliefs, shattered, next someone will tell me there are more than two genders. :O
I ended up directly east of Cape Town and Southeast of Madagascar. It may be wet but it is a great spot for sport fishing!
bob
Well, your compass may not work well during the dig so a wrong turn is very possible.
The newer Total Recall movie said London would link to Australia or something. A clean miss.
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Center of the Indian Ocean.
Brad
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Center of the Indian Ocean.
Brad
I haven't tried any locations on the east coast, but Minnesota, Texas, and southern California all end up in the Indian Ocean. I suspect anywhere in USA except Alaska and Hawaii will do the same, although some might be pretty close to Australia or Madagascar.
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Looks like about halfway between Australia and the Cape of Good Hope.
Not quite halfway for me, but I would definitely come out under water. Which then raises the question: Woud I drain the Indian Ocean, and flood my home town?
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Once you get past the elephants you hit the top turtles shell.
After that it's turtles all the way down.
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It didn't work correctly. I entered my 5 digit ZIP and it switched my U.S. location to somewhere in France as the starting point. :facepalm:
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use CITY, STATE
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Once you get past the elephants you hit the top turtles shell.
After that it's turtles all the way down.
And then back up, as I pointed out already.
So you'll hit the elephants again, this time from the bottom.
And their bellies are ticklish. They cause earthquakes when they're tickled. So it is said.