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To: doug from upland
It would take you about 42 minutes to make the trip from one side of the Earth to the other.42 minutes? The diameter of the earth is 7,918 miles. That is an average speed of over 11,000 mph.
31 posted on
04/19/2014 9:13:59 AM PDT by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: doug from upland
33 posted on
04/19/2014 9:15:18 AM PDT by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: doug from upland
Impossible? It isn't impossible at all! All you need is an 8000-mile-long perfectly straight tube filled with perfect vacuum and with frictionless sides, and the ability to stop the Earth from rotating for only 42 minutes. The rest (as an infuriating old math professor of mine used to say) is
merely engineering.
Well, it sure used to spin up the engineering students.
Actually the entire article is a fake. The Nazis will do nearly anything to keep us from discovering that the Earth is hollow and filled with their UFOs.
To: doug from upland
This has been done before when I was a kid I saw a documentary on this subject:
37 posted on
04/19/2014 9:19:30 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: doug from upland
Damm!
I SO wanted to try this!
39 posted on
04/19/2014 9:20:12 AM PDT by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: doug from upland
Holy crap! This is the (in)famous spring equation, F = – kx!Robert Hooke is one of the greatest scientific minds ever.
43 posted on
04/19/2014 9:24:08 AM PDT by
Hoodat
(Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
To: doug from upland
If you are in a free falling elevator would jumping up at the very end, just before impact, save your life?
44 posted on
04/19/2014 9:25:45 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: doug from upland
They can’t get permits to build the keystone pipeline.
47 posted on
04/19/2014 9:27:34 AM PDT by
ThomasThomas
(Some learn from others... The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.)
To: doug from upland
When I was about 8 years old, my friends and I decided that we would dig a hole to China. We were serious. We actually thought that if we were determined enough, and gave up watching Speed Racer and Gilligan's Island on the TV, that our perseverance would pay off and our shovels would eventually strike daylight and we'd emerge into a world of smiling Chinese people with fortune cookies, rice paddies and beef teriyaki on a stick (our favorite).
With great enthusiasm, we proceeded to start the hole - in my backyard, because other parents wouldn't let their kids dig in theirs - and after the first afternoon of digging, we actually had a pretty decent sized hole with mounds of dirt and rocks all around.
The next morning, I was woken up to the sounds of my father shouting for me. I came downstairs and my mother grabbed me by the hair and shoved me to the floor in front of my glowering father whose face was rapidly turning a deep shade of red. He simply pointed to the backyard and said "fill it" and walked away.
None of my friends came over to help me fill it. It took pretty much all morning and sure enough, there was not enough dirt to completely fill it and even to this day, some 40 years later, there is still a slight depression in the yard where the aborted hole to China lies unfinished.
To: doug from upland
Someone answering an old qyestion with real science- such a spoil sport - lol
51 posted on
04/19/2014 9:31:32 AM PDT by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: doug from upland; P-Marlowe
So much bad science in this post.
All on needs to do is go to the opening at the North Pole and jump in. The biggest danger would come from venturing too close to the central sun.
63 posted on
04/19/2014 9:48:44 AM PDT by
Gamecock
(If the cross is not foolishness to the lost world then we have misrepresented the cross." S.L.)
To: doug from upland
spherically symmetric things, which includes things like the Earth, have a cute property Which of course begs the question - "Would Laz hit it?"
66 posted on
04/19/2014 9:52:36 AM PDT by
Hardastarboard
(The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
To: doug from upland
Quote:
Q: If you could drill a tunnel through the whole planet and then jumped down this tunnel...You mean like this?
To: doug from upland
Have you ever seen XKCD's
What If? page?
75 posted on
04/19/2014 10:03:35 AM PDT by
zeugma
(Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss (I'll see you again someday Hope))
To: doug from upland
You’d never survive!! The center of the earth is over a million degrees F. < /algore>
79 posted on
04/19/2014 10:08:26 AM PDT by
Arrowhead1952
(The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
To: doug from upland
Very exciting thread!
When I was in 5th grade I used to debate this with the 7th grade crossing guard. I think his name was Craig. We concluded:
A) It was not possible to bore a hole through the center of the earth, but!
B) For arguments sake, if you could, you would not be able to jump in and pop out the other side. Air resistance and friction would slow you down and you would come to rest at the gravitational center of the earth.
What we did not consider getting squished or heat vaporized by air pressure, but then we were still only in Grammar school.
To: doug from upland
The BLM would be there waiting to say it was theirs.
89 posted on
04/19/2014 10:29:50 AM PDT by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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92 posted on
04/19/2014 10:32:07 AM PDT by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: doug from upland
ROTFLMAO!
Doug,
Thanks for the fascinating dissertation on a question we’ve all asked at one time or another.
Wonder if the results would be the same if we dumped obozo into that tunnel?
My guess is that the earth would expel him via a spasm of projectile vomiting!
94 posted on
04/19/2014 10:37:00 AM PDT by
Dick Bachert
(Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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98 posted on
04/19/2014 10:41:14 AM PDT by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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