2007-12-06 05:04:35 · 11 answers · asked by gharris4027 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
dead cause it would get a little warm when I got to the center
2007-12-06 05:08:11 · answer #1 · answered by jon s 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you mean to ask what is directly opposite from your location on the earth, that can only be answered if you know your latitude and longitude. You can do it like this: Take whatever your latitude is and go to that latitude in the other hemisphere. IE, if you are at 40 degrees north latitude, then look along 40 degrees south latitude.
Now the longitude. Take your longitude and find the meridian that is 180 degrees from it. Example: if you are at 82 degrees west longitude, the opposite will be 98 degrees east longitude. They total 180.
The intersection of those two lines will be your opposite position on the globe. If you want some help, tell where you are and I'll figure it out for you.
BTW, if you go straight through from almost anywhere in the continental 48 US states, you will end up in the Indian Ocean. (On second look, *none* of the US would project to Australia.)
Prof, I knew from one of your other posts that you were not in the US, but I thought you might have been in England. Looks like you're in the area of Guyana or Venezuela?
Mixmaster, you'd be about 500 or 600 miles west of Australia and a couple thousand miles south of Indonesia. (But in the same time zone, like you said.)
2007-12-06 05:17:33 · answer #2 · answered by Brant 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Depends on where you start, and which direction you dig. If you go vertically you'll come out at the antipodes, in theory, but not if you actually try to do it. It will get far too hot, and the pressure would be so great that anything you put in to stop the tunnel collapsing couldn't do the job.
2007-12-06 05:22:01 · answer #3 · answered by za 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at the other end.
An easy way to figure out where you would end up, is to take note of what time it is where you start then add twelve hours to that.
Now you can search that part of the world that is 12 hours ahead of you.
For example If I were to live in say Florida, and dug thru I would end up in Indonesia.
It is 10 am now in Florida, but it is 10 pm now in Indonesia.
If you have GOOGLE earth this can easily be done by taking the longitude of your starting position and subtracting 180Deg
2007-12-06 05:19:01 · answer #4 · answered by mixmaster2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That sort of depends on where you start from and in what direction you dig, doesn't it? Truly, though, you would end up in a box 6 feet underground. It gets uncomfortably warm as you dig downward.
2007-12-06 11:17:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, if you make it past the core...from the US, you'd end up around the Australia area. It's a misconception when people say "that hole goes all the way to China." if the hole really did go to China, it wouldn't be dug straight down. It would have to be dug on a slight bend because China and the US are in the same hemispheres. Straight down from the US would bring you to the South hemisphere around Australia or so.
2007-12-06 05:13:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
After you climbed out of an ever steepening 4000 mile hole you would end up on the opposite side of the earth.
Tattered and torn!
2007-12-06 07:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if *I* dug all the way through the Earth I'd end up off the northwest coast of Australia. I don't know where you would end up.
2007-12-06 05:18:15 · answer #8 · answered by ZikZak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
disenigraded. nothing has been able to get through the crust completely. even if you did get through the hot core temperatures would kill you
2007-12-06 08:06:52 · answer #9 · answered by FUSE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wal-Mart.
2007-12-06 06:07:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The center...and it's hot enough to melt lead.
2007-12-06 08:42:36 · answer #11 · answered by TheCheatest902 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋