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Starkist
09-14-2005, 03:14 AM
http://grad.icmc.usp.br/~cipriani/bighole.php?lang=en

This google map will show you precisely where you will end up if you dug a hole straight through the earth to the other side. From where I live I would end up in the Indian Ocean, a few hundred miles southeast of Africa. How about you?

MrCow
09-14-2005, 03:24 AM
apparently ill end up in argentina/chile area

Saffith
09-14-2005, 04:06 AM
Slightly southwest of Australia.


apparently ill end up in argentina/chile area
Make sure you're reading that right; unless you're in east Asia, that's not where it should be. For me, it seems to jump there whenever I click "Dig here!" but it's nowhere near the marked endpoint.

Drunken Tiger
09-14-2005, 05:12 AM
I supposedly end up in the Atlantic!! :(

Archibaldo
09-14-2005, 07:39 AM
Stupid Quebec isn't shown on the map at a close enough view to find my town or whatever.

ShadowTiger
09-14-2005, 09:00 AM
Very interesting device. o.o' I was sort of hoping it would dig to the other side of the planet, by which I mean the stereotypical America <--> China idea, but this is interesting too. :shrug: I'm somewhat in Wester South America, I suppose. A bit north of where MrCow ended up.

Verman
09-14-2005, 09:25 AM
Stupid Quebec isn't shown on the map at a close enough view to find my town or whatever.

It's cause no one cares about Quebec... sorry dude :(

PS: I end up in the ocean of the coast of aussi-land where the kangaroo's do romp.

moocow
09-14-2005, 10:00 AM
The South Pacific Ocean, apparently.

ALMOST New Zealand!

AtmaWeapon
09-14-2005, 10:08 AM
I'm way out in the middle of the Indian Ocean though technically I'd get stuck at the center of the Earth.

Rainman
09-14-2005, 10:23 AM
I ended up southwest of Australia.

Master Ghaleon
09-14-2005, 11:25 AM
Little bit west of Australia

vegeta1215
09-14-2005, 12:25 PM
Slightly southwest of Austrailia in the Indian Ocean. ;)

theplustwo
09-14-2005, 12:34 PM
Glub glub I am in the middle of the Indian Ocean can someone please send me a life raft or at least some delicious LifeSavers™ candies?

Cloral
09-14-2005, 12:37 PM
Just as I had believed previously, I would end up SE of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

edit:
According to this map, in order to end up in China, you'd have to start in Argentina or somewhere nearby. Although, if you ignore the North/South aspect of this, Argentina is about as much East/West as the east coast of the US, which could explain where this saying came from.

biggiy05
09-14-2005, 01:16 PM
West of Chilie in the South Pacific Ocean

Dark Knight
09-14-2005, 01:23 PM
I end up in somehwere in the Indian Ocean, near Australia.

MrCow
09-14-2005, 03:18 PM
Slightly southwest of Australia.


Make sure you're reading that right; unless you're in east Asia, that's not where it should be. For me, it seems to jump there whenever I click "Dig here!" but it's nowhere near the marked endpoint.

no its digging correctly and it brings me to chile area

moocow
09-14-2005, 04:23 PM
I mis-clicked the first time... just a little bit west of Chile.

firebug
09-14-2005, 07:11 PM
I end up in the water, south of africa.. Closer to antarctica. To the people ending up in argentina and/or chile.. Where are you in the world? The only way to hit that area is if you are in asia. :\

edit: Anyone in the continental US is going to land in the indian ocean somewheres. Hawaii lands west of africa in the atlantic.

MrCow
09-14-2005, 07:37 PM
K so it wasnt agreeing with my browser redid end up off the southwest tip of australia

Tygore
09-14-2005, 09:30 PM
Indian Ocean. Almost an equal distance from MAdagascar, India, and Australia.