If you dig a hole straight down, where would you exit?

[Ale]

I just cleared one of my childhood misteries, if I dug straight down through the Earth, where would I exit?
I went to Mapquest and put my latitude (instead of South, North) and longitude (I added 180 degrees) so I had the exact opposite place and…
Smack in the middle of the Yellow Sea, about 40 km SE of the halfway line between Nanjing and Seul. :dubious:

Rats, I expected to pop my head in China, not on the sea bed; I´ll have to swim a couple hundred kilometers to the East to find the nearest land.

[FlyingRamenMonster]

I think you’d end up stuck in the core of the earth, ripped apart by the gravitational forces. Oh, and all that molten metal, too.

… I apparently would end up in a small Mexican town near Tijuana.

[Omniscient]

A link to a way to figure out your lat. and long. might provide you with better responses. Just a suggestion.

[bouv]

@FlyingRamenMonster

I think you’d end up stuck in the core of the earth, ripped apart by the gravitational forces. Oh, and all that molten metal, too.

… I apparently would end up in a small Mexican town near Tijuana.

Ummm…huh? If you’re in Washington state as your location thingy states, how can you still remain in the western hemisphere?

And color me cluelesss, but where in Mapquest can I see my lat and long? I know roughly my latitude, but have ni clue about my longitude, and even if I did, I certainly have no idea what corresponds to the opposite of those.

[I_Love_Me_Vol.I]

@bouv

Ummm…huh? If you’re in Washington state as your location thingy states, how can you still remain in the western hemisphere?

And color me cluelesss, but where in Mapquest can I see my lat and long? I know roughly my latitude, but have ni clue about my longitude, and even if I did, I certainly have no idea what corresponds to the opposite of those.

WA=Western Australia??

[Marley23]

Here’s the MapQuest link.

If I’ve done this right, I’m in the Indian Ocean, almost perfectly in between Australia, Africa and Antarctica. The nearest island that Mapquest shows is Grand Terre, one of the Kerguelen Islands (it’s a French Antarctic island), formerly called Desolation Island. And even that is close to 1,000 miles away. That would have left me plenty of room to think, but I’m still glad I never tunneled all the way through.

[bouv]

Alright, I was able to find it, and I would end up in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. Make a line straight south from the southern tip of India, and about 3.4 of the way down that line, and just to the left, is where I would end up.

[some_white_dude]

I’d probably get about 10 feet down, get tired, and go take a nap.

[bouv]

@I Love Me

WA=Western Australia??

Oooooooooohhhhhhhh.
:smack:

[David_Simmons]

@Marley23

Here’s the MapQuest link.

If I’ve done this right, I’m in the Indian Ocean, almost perfectly in between Australia, Africa and Antarctica. The nearest island that Mapquest shows is Grand Terre, one of the Kerguelen Islands (it’s a French Antarctic island), formerly called Desolation Island. And even that is close to 1,000 miles away. That would have left me plenty of room to think, but I’m still glad I never tunneled all the way through.

Right. The antipodes to the United States are in the Indian Ocean.

[wolf_meister]

I think most of the USA has the Pacific Ocean “beneath its feet”.
Hawaii has Mozambique directly “underneath” it.

[Omniscient]

@bouv

Ummm…huh? If you’re in Washington state as your location thingy states, how can you still remain in the western hemisphere?

And color me cluelesss, but where in Mapquest can I see my lat and long? I know roughly my latitude, but have ni clue about my longitude, and even if I did, I certainly have no idea what corresponds to the opposite of those.

Thats Perth, Western Australia not Washington state. A common confusion I’m sure.

[Frosted_Glass]

I used this site to find my Latitude and Longitude.

I would end up just south of the Mongolia/China border near a place called Bayan Mod.

[Skywatcher]

About 700 miles WSW from Perth, Australia.

[Skywatcher]

@FlyingRamenMonster

… I apparently would end up in a small Mexican town near Tijuana.

I think you did something wrong, unless you’re not in Perth at the moment. Google Earth puts you off the coast of Bermuda.

[Shai_tan]

@FlyingRamenMonster

I think you’d end up stuck in the core of the earth, **ripped apart by the gravitational forces. **

I’m having trouble with the being RIPPED apart bit. Forgetting the molten lead, the force pulling you in any given direction will be LESS than the pull “down” when on the surface.

[matt_mcl]

If I’ve done the calculations correctly, 1739 km SSW of Perth.

[Pixiesnix]

I would indeed end up in China, about 40km from the booming metropolis of Huatgou.

[Cunctator]

From a quick look at an atlas, about 600km south of the Azores Islands I think.

[Kythereia]

All right, I’m lost. How are you all doing this?