James Newtons Massmind wrote:
> 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...
>
> ---
> James.
>  
>  
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>> -----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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However, If I were to dig a hole parallel with my
latitude of 41N, 95W to the opposite point, I'd end up
SE of Xinjiang, in far western China. :-)

Jim


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