if you dug a hole to the other side of the earth...would you come out feet first or head first?
439821
Theoretically study shows you need to come out head first, in case the other side is a commode.
272566
hard to explain, just jump off and dive in head first, just be careful not to bellyflop, trust me it hurts...
314477
depends where do you want to end up!
622081
Well, that would be some drilling job. How do you propose to get around all that magma exploding upwards once you puncture the containment of the crust you just drilled through? I suspect you will be creating a nasty little, maybe growing into a large volcano. And somewhere along the line, instead of drilling DOWN into the Earth, won't you be drilling ... UP??
630342
Let's imagine that there's not lava inside, then as you ascend, you would slowly slowdown, at the center of the planet you wopuld experience zero-gravity, then if you push yourself towards the south pole, you would have to climb out --- you would not be falling, but climbing now.\n\nSo you would come out head-first.\n\nBut it is technically impossible, because of the heat and the pressure at great dephs.
874868
Well, if you are going feet first, then there may be a difference of a few thousand g between your feet and your head, so we could guess one will be sucked in, in tiny slices being pulled off from your body due to the delta gs.\n\nThere was a nice graphic effect simulation of this effect in one of the "Space: Above and Beyond" episodes.  If I remember right the episode was "Ray Butts". Worth watching it.
95646
Why not...\nYou have a vision, so walk toward it.
465381
well, if it took you 2 days to dig A hole, it would take you forever, trying to figure out what a half hole, and then you would die, and never be able to figure out what a half a hole is, and then. something would happen.
462650
You wouldn't fall anywhere, you'd be stuck in the middle.  Gravity would be too strong for you to dig away from the center.
439690
Check out what was done on the World Trade Center buildings. They had about the same problems with water in the soil but they are a lot farther away than 1.5 meters. I'd start with a pile-driver to hit solid earth and build the entire thing above sea level. Mother Nature's Ocean will get in.
1051472
Ok, say the earth was all solid and there was a tunnel from one side to the other.  \n\nYou would keep accelerating as you moved toward the center of the earth, until you reached a very high speed.  As you passed through your speed would be at a maximum.  Then you would begin to decelerate as you went toward the other side.  Neglecting friction and air resistance, you would have just enough momentum to make it up to the surface on the other side, but you would have to grab on or else you would fall back into the hole and go the other way.  You'd continue oscillating back and forth forever if you neglect friction.  \n\nBut of course in real life you would slow down a little bit each time.  Your motion would be like a kid on a swing set, or a pendulum, a gradually decreasing swinging motion until finally you come to rest in the center.
579193
After sliding for the first hour or so, I'd want to get off.\nI'd bet that the New York side would be so high that the water would freeze.\n\nBe easier to get a boat to drag you behind all the way to England.  Not much fun either way.
897360
No, u will stuck in center. As it is familiar that the earth is more or less spherical in shape. So the "point of gravity" lies at the centre of the earth (the core we say).\n\nSo when u jump into that whole (which u digged) u will go inside, due to gravity. Once u reach the mid point (core), the gravity becomes zero. But with the old force, u will move further, making negative gravity, (that is gravity in opposite direction), from the opp direction, u will come back to the centre. \nThis will repeat until the gravity becomes zero, after that u will stuk up at the core.
1059765
Hmmm, probably, but I am an adventurous type that way.  The bigger questions for me would be how would I get to the poles and why am I going?
184304
The 2nd answer is the more popular belief, keep in mind these are just theros, as no one to this day has been to the center of the earth.  So fear not, you can dig that hole in your back yard without fear of falling thru.
702303
Well, you would not make it through because you would die in the middle from the heat.\n\nAssuming that there was no heat to burn you, in that case you would get stuck in the middle because of gravitational force.\n\nAssuming there was no gravity, you would probably not be able to make it through because it would be too exhausting.\n\nAssuming that there is nothing that could prevent you from doing it, either physical or geographical, then you would come out of the hole right side up.
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if you DIDN'T include the SCORCHING MAGMA and the EXTREME VELOCITIES EXHIBITED BY FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH and also the CHANCE THERE IS WATER ON THE OTHER SIDE THAT WOULD EMPTY INTO THE HOLE, you would go down easy, but then it would become increasingly hard to climb out of the hole once you are at the center. also, gravity will be stronger at the middle and close to it. here is a diagram. gravitational force is measured as 1 weakest and 4 second strongest, then () as the center. [ and ] are the crust\nweeeeeeeeeeeeeee    center of earth!!!!  \n[ 1       2        3           4             ()                 4        3        2        1 ]\n\nbasically, closer to the center of the earth, greater gravitational force. you could get crushed by the gravity in the center anyway and there would be not enough oxygen to breathe for the extension of the trip. revisiting the make a hole to china and maybe end up in a ocean idea, here is a link.\n\nhttp://www.digholes.com/\n\nthis is kind of cool. double click where you are digging from, then it will show where on earth you would end up. if you dug from china straight down, you would end up in south america. try it.