Jumping into a 7,964 mile deep hole

4/26/2008
what if you jumped into a 7,964 mile deep hole;
a hole that came out on the other side globe?

and if you were ever to stop, how fast and how far
would you have traveled?

and how much time would your journey have taken?

for the answers to these questions, check out the
video below, an excerpt from the History Channel's
The Universe, Gravity


Comments

Oh my god!!! 42 minutes! *42*!!!! The meaning of the universe revealed!!!!!!
Posted by Wicked on 7/26/2008 3:00:33 PM
Nice!
Posted by Rustam on 8/1/2008 2:10:42 PM
It's wrong. As you travel further down the hole, atmospheric pressure will increase, causing increasing drag. Eventually the air will liquefy under intense pressure. You will be foreever stuck in the depths of the Earth. In fact, I believe the pressure and temperature would solidify the atmosphere at a certain depth; prior to which you are traveling pretty slow due to the drag of liquefied air, so you will just come to a stop there. Before you got there, increasing temperatures would have caused your body to decompose, much of which is water which would become solid under this extreme temperature/pressure. You will be mostly just "snow" fluttering slowly down through the hot liquid "air" landing gently on the solid surface deep within the Earth. Or perhaps you will never get that far down due to churn from the heat further down causing strong currents going up and down the tunnel-- you will just be debris swirling forever in those currents.
Posted by dave on 8/10/2008 11:43:34 PM
simple solution, make the tube a vacuum, no air resistence and nothing to solidify, plus the practical tubes wouldn't be straight through, they would be like in the video, new york to paris, paris to moscow, that way you never pass through the actual earths core
Posted by jacob on 9/14/2008 8:48:37 AM

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