As a child I quite liked the thought of tunneling through the earth and coming out in Australia. In England that’s where you are told that you will come out, Australia, that’s the other side of the world.
Thanks to Google and Dig a hole through the Earth I have now had that fantasy well and truly shattered:
Apparently I would have come out somewhere in the middle of the ocean with the nearest land mass hundreds of miles away. I’m sure as a child that it wouldn’t have been anything like as exciting to have imagined travelling through the middle of the earth just to get wet. It’s not like it’s even in the middle of some Polynesian coral islands, it’s literally in the middle of nowhere.
(Before anyone comments, yes I do know that it would be impossible to tunnel through the middle of the earth for all sorts of other reasons, but this was a fantasy. In the words of Mark Twain: “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”)
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Thanks to Google I am now a very upset child, as I too shared that belief and how as a parent will I be able to share this story with my daughter….are Google going to shatter Santa Claus too?
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Thanks to Google I am now a very upset child, as I too shared that belief and how as a parent will I be able to share this story with my daughter….are Google going to shatter Santa Claus too?
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Graham it’s a good job you checked before you started digging, otherwise when you go to the other side, and broke through, then you would have flooded the UK. Hang on, but that would have meant that once the water got to the centre of the earth, then it would have to “fall up” to come out the other side. So maybe there would be just a lot of steam as it got near the centre.
Hmmm, I should get out more.
Another odd question that I was asked by by daughter the other day “How do you grow the first seedless grape vine?” Come on Google that then.
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