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The Science of a Bottomless Pit
StartsWithABang writes It's the ultimate dream of many children with time on their hands and their first leisurely attempt at digging: to go clear through the Earth to the other side, creating a bottomless pit. Most of us don't get very far in practice, but in theory, it should be possible to construct one, and consider what would happen to a very clever test subject who took all the proper precautions, and jumped right in. Here's what you would have to do to travel clear through the Earth, come out the other side, and make the return trip to right back where you started.
hello perth australia from new york city
we're not your true antipodean doppleganger, that would be hamilton bermuda
but you're the closest thing to that for us
and if when they find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 it turns out to be directly antipodal to the Statue of Liberty, i'm giving up on reason and becoming a conspiracy theorist
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
No. In today's university, the entire first undergraduate semester is spent on sensitivity awareness, wymyn's studies, black history, and overcoming white privilege.
. . .because it takes at least 1 hour at each end for ground transportation and you need to allow an hour to clear security, another hour at the other end for immigration and customs.
Their scenario should have started the person off at the south pole, not the north, for the extra altitude.
Um, hello?
Everyone knows that north is on top, and you can't fall upwards.
The level of scientific illiteracy here is disgraceful.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it