If you dig deep enough, will you come out the other side of the world, ie, AUSTRALIA?

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Just wondered - however I am not embarking on doing such a thing. I just wondered whether anyone had ever considered doing it. Like me. :D
 

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Every kid must have considered doing it. You would of course be digging headfirst and uphill once you passed the middle :D
 

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You mean the very hot, very molten bit in the middle. :)
 

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Wouldn't come out in Australia, if you could do it...
 

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Got a hammer drill, might try it if I get a free afternoon.

But, suppose an Australian decides to dig towards England, and you both meet in the middle ...... which one of you then backs up for 2000 miles?
 

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gameboy said:
Wouldn't come out in Australia, if you could do it...

If you went round the earth's core, you could do it, though. It is possible. But if you avoided the earth's core, where is the most likely place you'd come out?
 

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Add 180 degrees to your longitude and use degrees south lattitude instead of north and take google earth for a spin to your left. Let us know mate.




L.:)
 

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Oops, sorry.

As many people have noticed, the earth's diameter is 8000 miles, and not 4000 as I implied. Apologies to anyone who started digging .......

But, Christmas is coming! So, take a large spade, laser rangefinder, miner's helmet, boxes of compressed dates and Kendal Mint Cake, first aid kit, sleeping bag, and a copy of book "Digging Through to Australia, For Dummies". Wrap them all up together in glitzy paper. Makes a nice "novelty" present, especially for thoses awkward buggers who already have everything.

Except for the book, you can probably get most of that really cheap, from Lidl.

Puzzling place, Lidl. That thing they sell to put all your keys in, I've also seen it in garden centres. You fill it up with stale bread, hang up outdoors, then birds peck though the holes. But, there's nothing to stop you keeping keys in it instead, if you really want to.

But, back on topic, yes, veer slightly right and you come out in South Island, popular since they filmed "Rings" there. Get it right though, cos if you go other way by mistake, you come up under the ocean ....

Must go now, getting a signal from the mothership .....
 

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I would, if I did it deep :-rofl2
 

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rolfw said:
You mean the very hot, very molten bit in the middle. :)


Are you suggesting Jules Vern was wrong ?
 

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I think the geothermal gradient would get you long before you got to the core.

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:-rofl2


:-omg I'll get my coat... the contagion spreads...
 

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Some brilliant and very expertised replies! Thanks!

Let's start digging then! I have my bucket and spade ready! :D
 

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spiney said:
And what happens, if you pour cold water onto something boiling hot?.

A wet t-shirt contest ?
 

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go ahead and dig your own graves....

jus kidding
 

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mouk said:
go ahead and dig your own graves....

that's not very nice,

just think of all the useful centre of info youd lose
 

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mouk said:
go ahead and dig your own graves....

jus kidding


Ah, Mouk, where's your sense of adventure?:D :-rofl2
 

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I have to tell you guys, you all full of **** humor, keep going.
 
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