Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
you would fall to the center and get stuck
Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
you would fall to the center and get stuck
Actually you would keep "falling" until you were an equal distance from the center as when you started (ignoring air resistance, friction, etc.). Then you would start "falling" back and basically oscillate.Originally posted by: Spike
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
You would stop at the very center of the earth as gravity is equal in both directions there... at least thats my thought. Of course you would have to somehow get rid of all that molten rock and crap first
-spike
Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
you would fall to the center and get stuck
you would die before you got there due to rapid increase in air pressure
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Actually you would keep "falling" until you were an equal distance from the center as when you started (ignoring air resistance, friction, etc.). Then you would start "falling" back and basically oscillate.Originally posted by: Spike
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
You would stop at the very center of the earth as gravity is equal in both directions there... at least thats my thought. Of course you would have to somehow get rid of all that molten rock and crap first
-spike
Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
you would fall to the center and get stuck
you would die before you got there due to rapid increase in air pressure
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
you would fall to the center and get stuck
you would die before you got there due to rapid increase in air pressure
You're in an air pressure controlled suit, and, a very thick reinforced high temp steel tube was sleeved into the hole.
Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
no. you wouldn't fall all that far because US--->china is not throught the center of the earth's mass...not even close. now you may roll for quite a ways though.
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
does gravity increase or decrease proportional from the mass's center?
either way, without wind resistance or other friction you would "fall" just about to the other side, then fall back the way you came
Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
yes if a huge gash opens up in teh middle of the runway opening a hole to china and the plane falls in there
That makes me wonder... if you did have a hole from say the middle of the US to china... and you jumped through it, how far would you actually make it before you started falling the other way?
Damn... far out...
you would fall to the center and get stuck
If the earth was hollow...