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Dig a hole straight down through the earth, with Google Maps.
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Yep, apparently yet another lie perpetuated by my parents! And to think of all that time wasted in the sandbox trying to dig to China.Pengwuino said:lol this is hilarious. All those jokes about "tunneling straight to China" don't even make sense anymore! The opposite side of China is in South America
Moonbear said:Yep, apparently yet another lie perpetuated by my parents! And to think of all that time wasted in the sandbox trying to dig to China.
I used to mess with the other kids while we were digging the hole, and tell them I could faintly hear people speaking Chinese.Moonbear said:Yep, apparently yet another lie perpetuated by my parents! And to think of all that time wasted in the sandbox trying to dig to China.
Getting to the coast is no problem. Getting to the surface is the hard partAndy said:A few hundred miles of the new zealand coast, figure i could swim that though.
Danger said:Doesn't work on my computer.
I'll have to try at work tomorrow.
You could not free fall (neglecting air resistance) through a straight hole in the Earth unless that hole was drilled from one pole to the other.BobG said:If I jump in and free fall, it takes about 42 minutes to wind up at the other side.
No, it's because he has dial-up and an OLD mac. None of those google maps/satellite images worked for me when I was on dial-up, they're just too large of files and never finish downloading. Now that I have cable internet, no problem.Kakarot said:thats what you get mac boy!
Negative. The G3 is fairly old, I admit, but I'm on high-speed ADSL. The site came up just fine, but wouldn't display the map.Moonbear said:No, it's because he has dial-up and an OLD mac.
No, it is not possible to dig a hole straight down through the Earth using Google Maps. This is because Google Maps is a digital mapping service that shows images of the Earth's surface, not its interior.
Google Maps uses flat images to represent the Earth's surface, so when you zoom in, the images will eventually start to repeat. It is not possible to zoom in far enough to see the other side of the Earth.
Google Maps does not provide images or information about what is under the Earth's surface. This type of information is typically only available through specialized equipment and techniques used by geologists and other scientists.
No, Google Maps does not provide information about the location of the Earth's core. The exact location of the Earth's core is constantly changing due to the Earth's rotation and movement.
No, Google Maps only provides images of the Earth's surface. To see what the Earth looks like from the inside, you would need to use specialized equipment and techniques, such as seismology or underground mapping.