That is COOL!

Looks like about the best you can do is somewhere off the east coast of the
USA gets you somewhere off the west coast of Australia.

Colombia takes you to Singapore.

Hawaii takes you squarely to the center of Botswana or Namibia.

New Zealand is opposite Spain, with a bit of Morocco.

Ok, no more getting work done for me today...

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James.
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of M. Adam Davis
> Sent: 2006 Aug 28, Mon 13:53
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT]: Digging a hole to China
> 
> Thanks.  I just wasted an hour putting together a Google Map 
> webpage to show me exactly where I'd end up, given any 
> starting location:
> 
> http://www.ubasics.com/dighole/
> 
> It shows two maps.  Both are draggable.  The two maps show 
> the antipodal views of the world - if you start digging down 
> at the location on the top map, you'll pop out the location 
> on the bottom map and vice versa
> 
> -Adam
> 
> On 8/28/06, Alex Harford <harford@gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.peakbagger.com/pbgeog/worldrev.aspx
> >
> > >From the page:
> >
> > Antipodes: The Other Side of the World
> >
> > There is an informal and anecdotal belief among Americans 
> that if you 
> > dig a hole deep enough, eventually you would come out in 
> China. This 
> > is theoretically possible if the hole is angled in the 
> right way, but 
> > if you dig straight down and through the exact center of the earth 
> > from anywhere in the 48 contiguous United States, you'd come out in 
> > the Indian Ocean. Only in parts of Argentina or Chile would 
> a straight 
> > hole emerge in China.
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