Dig a hole through the earth - or run around the earth
Not strictly training news, but I just had to recommend this great gadget for Google Maps. Click on the map and find out where a hole dug through the earth will end up. Unfortunately for Oxford, it’s bang in the middle of the Pacific - not even a deserted island to rest on.
Do it yourself at http://map.talleye.com/bighole.php
You can also run around the earth and see where you’d pass through.
Tags: map
August 31st, 2007 at 11:46 am
If you dug a hole in the earth all the way to the pacific, wouldn’t all the water run down it? And on the way down wouldn’t it cool down the earth’s core and then submerge poor old blighty?
It’s enough to keep you awake at night thinking about this.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:58 am
Mmm, now look here boyo, the way I see it I’ll be digging down from Oxford, so carrying loads of earth behind me with which to fill the hole as I carry on down to the earth’s core. Assuming there isn’t some ancient civilisation of dinosaurs etc hiding in the centre of the earth (I think it was destroyed, as filmed in that great documentary film, Journey to the Centre of the Earth), I can just carry on through. In fact, the only problem might be the reverse - I’ll create a new island of earth in the Pacific!! But that’s okay because I can’t swim very well and it’d be nice to have somewhere to rest after all that effort.