Mar

26

What’s on the other side of the world?

Filed Under Geography 

They always told me as a kid that if you dug straight down you’d come up on the other side of the world. Somehow, the other side of the world, no matter where I lived, was always in China.

Well, if you want to get a realistic idea of where the other side of the world is relative to you, this neat little application, built on top of Google Maps, claims it can tell you.

Why would you want to know this? Well, the majority of the earth’s surface is water and not dry land, and that dull little fact is nicely illustrated with this application. It seems that when you’re on almost any land, if you dig straight down, you end up in the middle of the ocean. I had never realized that before.

Of course, there are minor problems with digging through the earth’s core, but this is a mapping demonstration and not science fiction.

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