I was just checking out some of the Flickr mashups and found this interesting one.
Do you remember when you were a kid and people used to say if you keep digging, you'll get to China? Well apart from the whole "earth's core" issue when you get a bit of an idea of geography you figure out that's not true. So where would we end up?
Well thanks to "Dig straight down" http://map.talleye.com/bighole.php you need wonder no more.
If you were to start digging somewhere around Melbourne you'd need to take your snorkel cos you'd end up almost smack bang in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Which of course led me to the question, if you were to start digging in China, where would you end up?
Turns out that takes you to South America or the surrounding oceans (depending on which part of China you dig).
Maybe it was the Americans who started the whole -dig your way to China thing. Seems they were a little off. :)
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