If you drilled to the other side of the world would you fall out?

If you drilled to the other side of the world would you fall out?

that is the question.

last week i was working and we got a little bored on Friday afternoon so we came up with this question. in truth we thought about it far too much, in the end it developed in to the ultimate plan which again we thought about far too much.

so...
if you ignore the heat and pressure at the centre of the earth would yo fall out the other side or climb out?
in the perspective of the person drilling they would always be drilling down.
once you reached the core and carried on drilling you would be drilling upwards (centre of gravity at the centre of the earth)

if you just stayed looking at your perspective, you would fall out the other side. however gravity would make it so that you had to climb out.

anyway we stared googling for answers (there were 4 of us trying to solve this)
this is what we came up with.

1. there is no gravity at the centre of the earth. gravity cancels it self out.

2. you would have to create some kind of vacuum in the tunnel to stop the tunnel collapsing.

3. (we didn't discover this but decided) it would be the worlds most awesome slide!!!

4. it would only take 90min to travel from 1 side of the earth to the other (cant remember the speed for this, think it was around supersonic)

5. if you did jump down the tunnel. your body would act in a similar way to a pendulum on a grandfather clock, eventually you would come to rest at the centre of the earth.

6. (we guessed rather than discovered) you would have to have someone grab you and pull you out of the tunnel at the other side, though it is possible that they might be pulled into the tunnel as well, because of the momentum.

7. if you drilled from the UK or France you would come out in the Pacific just south east of New Zealand.

anyway once we discovered that it in theory was possible we came up for an application for our tunnel.
between us we have a somewhat higher than normal distaste of the french.

so our plan is to destroy France! :D Were going to go to Dragons Den (BBC) to get money for this.

as Steve puts it " this time it is the right idea and the right nation" (Steve is the most anti french of all of us) (sorry if this comment offends anyone)

our proposal:
-create new real estate opportunities
-create a new tourist industry
-and create openings for military personnel
-oh yeah and a new global public holiday :)

1. we will talk to the French government and get them to build a wall around France approx 200ft high and 100ft thick no one will be able to get in or out ( to protect them from immigration :D ).

2. we will blow up the euro tunnel so no escape is possible. of course telling France that it is to protect them from imigration.

3. we will then start drilling a hole under the Eiffel tower sealing it with pipes along the way to stop cave ins and taking a slightly elliptical route so as not to die at the centre of the earth.

4. completion of the tunnel causes the Pacific to be drained into France (killing all the french :D) the wall we got the french to build protects the rest of Europe

5. the day this happens becomes the new global public holiday. on this day in every year to come, everyone has to find a french person to burn at the stake (like bonfire night)

6. the draining of the Pacific creates new islands which will be sold of as new development areas (each dragon giving us money would get 5% of the new land created)

7. the tips of the alps will be developed in to hotels, spas and luxury accommodation for the French Fishing Oasis (basically anywhere France) "Fish for dead Frogs"

8. a colony will be set up in Canada for surviving french nationals by "french survivors"

9. a new hunting season will be created in Canada "French Season" this season will run a month before the global public holiday allowing people to catch there french person to be burned at the steak.

10. openings for military personnel will be available, either
a. to catch any french nationals who weren't in France at the time of the flood and relocate to the Canada colony
b. or kill them for being french

11. we become hero's and move our plans on to the next country that annoys us :D

The money that the Dragons from Dragons Den give us will go into
- developing a drill capable of drilling the tunnel.
- making the tunnel.
- advertising and setting up the new tourist industries.
- copyrighting the idea.

The Dragons would get 5% of the new land created

as you can see we thought about this far too much as i said.

unless we can get some kind of financial backing and prob even then, this plan will never become more than a plan :(

-mainly because we have no idea how many people would support us
-were not sure we could get France to build the wall
-and to we have no intentions of going to jail for terrorism/ genocide

oh yeah and it is impossible i mean drilling a hole through the centre of the earth.... come on get a grip if you believed this was possible i mean jees how stupid can you be.

hope this gave you as good a laugh as it gave us

xxxxx
sapphire


p.s

Three guys, an Englishman, a Frenchman and an American are walking along the beach together one day. They come across a lantern and a genie pops out of it.

"I will give you each one wish, " says the genie.

The American says, "I am a farmer, my dad was a farmer, and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in America." With a blink of the genie's eye, 'FOOM' - the land in America was forever made fertile for farming.

The Frenchman was amazed, so he said, "I want a wall around France, so that no one can come into our precious country." Again, with a blink of the Genie's eye, 'POOF' - there was a huge wall around France.

The Englishman asks, "I'm very curious. Please tell me more about this wall.

The Genie explains, "Well, it's about 150 feet high, 50 feet thick and nothing can get in or out."

The Englishman says, "Fill it up with water."