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To: JenB

It's one of those unlikely "what if" things people (some with too much time on their hands) like to ponder. Like my question: What if you cored the earth from pole to pole, then jumped in the hole - what would happen?


47 posted on 12/11/2004 11:45:09 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

There was a science fiction short story about that. I don't remember the name, but they used it as a prison. A perpetual pendulum of swinging prisoners...


54 posted on 12/11/2004 11:47:53 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Larry Lucido
Like my question: What if you cored the earth from pole to pole, then jumped in the hole - what would happen?

I've thought of that too. I think you would be in a perpetual fall. As you passed the core, your rate of fall would begin to decrease as you would then be "falling up". You should come to a complete and brief stop just under the surface on the other side of the earth and then you'd begin to fall down again, reversing the process endlessly.

73 posted on 12/11/2004 12:01:43 PM PST by SamAdams76 (No intolerant liberal is going to take my Christmas away from me)
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To: Larry Lucido
What if you cored the earth from pole to pole, then jumped in the hole - what would happen?

Assuming that all the hot stuff didn't come erupting out the hole? You'd fall back and forth for a long time before stopping near the core.

96 posted on 12/11/2004 1:10:33 PM PST by Max in Utah (By their works you shall know them.)
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To: Larry Lucido
What if you cored the earth from pole to pole, then jumped in the hole - what would happen?

Probably about the same as a rat turd dropped in an hourglass.

132 posted on 12/11/2004 3:54:12 PM PST by Old Professer (The accidental trumps the purposeful in every endeavor attended by the incompetent.)
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