# dig through the earth **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 25, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463 "2000-09-25T15:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463/1 "2000-09-25T15:06:44Z")
Ok, all logistical impossibilities aside, here’s my question. Suppose you put a hole clear from one side of the earth to the other. You jump into the hole, and start falling down. What happens when you get to the end of the hole? Do you shoot up into the air? Or would you be drawn back to the center of the earth before you even got there? ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463/2 "2000-09-25T15:11:55Z")
See [What if you fell into a tube through the earth?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_165.html). If you look there are recent threads on the Boards which also relate to this. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463/3 "2000-09-25T15:13:51Z")
You won’t get to the end of the hole. Air resistance will have reduced your velocity too much. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463/4 "2000-09-25T15:15:43Z")
Simulpost… Yea, what Cecil said. ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463/5 "2000-09-25T17:10:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mrblue92 \* > \*\*Yea, what Cecil said. \*\* that’s a good sig line 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463/6 "2000-09-25T19:26:08Z")
This is the second thread I have read in the last two weeks on the same subject with the same answers! \*\*\* THWACK!!! THWACK!!! THWACK!!! ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463/7 "2000-09-26T06:14:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wonko The Sane \* > **This is the second thread I have read in the last two weeks on the same subject with the same answers!** Do you have a cite for that? ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463/8 "2000-09-26T06:17:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wonko The Sane \* > \*\*This is the second thread I have read in the last two weeks on the same subject with the same answers! > > \*\*\* THWACK!!! THWACK!!! THWACK!!! \*\* Would you feel any better if the answers had been different? ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2000, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dig-through-the-earth/34463/9 "2000-10-01T14:11:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wonko The Sane \* > \*\*This is the second thread I have read in the last two weeks on the same subject with the same answers! > > \*\*\* THWACK!!! THWACK!!! THWACK!!! \*\* \*\* I believe that the above poster may have been in error. Shhhh!!! Don’t tell him that I know!!! 😉 My apologies, I may have read the thread twice, and thought it was another one. In my defense, please read this===----\> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=38974](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=38974)