Alex,

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:42:04 -0700, Alex Harford wrote:

>...
> 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.

You realise you've just spoiled the whole point of the title of the film "The China Syndrome"?  

I suppose a film called "The somewhere in the Indian Ocean Syndrome" wouldn't have fitted across a cinema sign...  :-)

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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