Stupid thing to ponder

KRASHED

KRASHED

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Let's say that we dug a completely straight hole right through the Earth and you threw someone into it. What the hell would happen to you when you reached the center and gravity is coming at you the other way? Would you bounce around in limbo or would the gravity be so nasty that it would crush you? I don't get it!
 
You'd get melted. But if you didn't your momentum would probably cause you to go farther through the tunnel, then go back, kinda like a pendulum.
 
i think if we dug to the center of the earth, we would throw the world out of balance, and magma would come spwewing out, this would send the earths rotations of and we would probably be headed away from the sun
 
yes but lets be illogical. say there was a cement pipe around it and you wouldnt feel any heat and no magma would come out or around. what would happen when you reach the middle? youd be going fuckin fast (i cant remember what gravity's max speed is but from what i've read theres a certain speed you can reach and you cant go any faster than that). and youd shoot right past the middle...i honestly think that youd just keep going back n fourth...good ol nickle!
 
one thing i often ponder is what/where i'll be 10-15 years from now...who ill marry/if i marry, what kind of kids ill have/if ill have kids
 
i used to think that if you went into the center of the earth that the gravity coming from both ways would make you fly in the air and stay like huvering
 
Youd be goin now faster than you would after falling 3000feet out of an airplane because of terminal velocity. But we don't know what the gravity would be so its probably a diff V....ALTHOUGH in gravity you are pulled towards the center of the bject. So, would you just suspend there? I DON'T KNOW WHY ARE YOU FUCKING WITH MY HEAD!
 
this topic has been covered in the Thinkers Cult and here was my response.

if you jumped down into your shaft to china, you would be dead before

you reached the center of the earth. the reason for this, due to the

coriolis effect, the earth is still spinning while you are suspended in

air which means your body will be deflected to the right and you will

slam into the side of the shaft. then friction will take its toll.

this will be repeated thousands of times before you even reached the

center.

when you are in the norther hemisphere everything deflects to the right

or clockwise. over, this deflection is not as dramatic if you are say,

15 degrees N of the equator, reason for this being, is that the earth

is actually moving more slowly at this point then say if you were at 70

degrees north. so, if you jumped into a shaft in the NH but closer to

the equator, you would not bounce of the walls as much as you would if

you did it in the 70 degrees north latitudes. although, this concept

has been proven by Newton in 1803 when he dropped 29 iron pebbles into

a 90 meter deep mineshaft. they record the average deflection to be

8.8mm. so if you were falling down a mineshaft that could actually

make it to china, you would have about 6440km to go, depending on where

you dropped from. (assuming the point where you dropped the crust is

at its thickest, of 40 km versus 8 km, if you could drop from the crust

of the ocean which is impossible, so 6440 km in meters is 6,440,000m.

if the average deflection every 90meters was 8.8 mm then 6,440,000m

divided by 90m is 71,555, so that means you would be deflecting for a

total of 71,555 times for every 90m fallen. and if one deflects 8.8m or

0.0088m every 90m, then 71,555 times 0.0088m would give 629meters of

deflection before you hit the bottom, so you're gonna have to dig a

pretty wide hole..
 
ok, this might be what he means:

a magical underground airplane drops you off RIGHT AT the center of the earth. no momentum, becuase you just got dropped off. and no magma and dont give me any "thats impossible" shit, i know it is. what would happen then?
 
i know about the coriolis effect, and the fact that the earth is tilted, ut what if you dug ahole that went straight down, so it would be 15 some odd degrees less than the earth and it would be straight down. and lets say the tube was wide enough that you could control you fall, like when skydiving.
 
if you where to get to the center of the earth, and it was clear and there was no magma or anything, theoretically you would be suspended in equilibrium
 
Lets say you got to the very center of earth. You would be weightless. There would be no big objects pulling you cause your at the center. Kinda like how you weigh more on Jupiter, and less on the moon.
 
yea, as people have said, youd be fried before you reached the center, if you could even dig a hole to the core, which you cant. or that whole thing about being slammed into the wall. provided that the core wasnt hot for some reason, and that there was no actual mass there to stop you (just a force) you would probably experience something like a pendulum effect (as said earlier) where you would pass back and forth through the center, each time with the max distance becoming smaller. eventually youd stop in the middle.
 
lets say no magma, you would implode, first due to air pressure, also due to the fact that the entire eath would be gravitating inward to that point, and you are the center, you would probably end up the size of your left nut, and would be really really dense
 
you would implode.

what happens to a ballong when it is put deep down into water?

it shrinks right?

so, there would be so much pressure on you, that you would be crushed, BUT if somehow, that was avoided and you didnt go careening off the walls, you would be suspended.
 
there are a lot of bad things that would happen to you. And yeah, the coriolis effect is right.

as an aside, can I get an invite to the thinker's cult? I like to think... I can show you examples if need be.
 
because even long range artillery has to factor the coriolis effect. so its not just limited to your weather patterns. and i made my conclusion from the research of newton and what he recorded when he dropped the marbles down the well.
 
or right when you get to the middle you just impact into nothing from the force of gravity against itself?

idunno i was wondering about this a while ago too and thats what i came up with
 
Yeah i thought of this last year and i told my friends and after I throughly explained what the hell i was trying to say they were like hmmm... I dunno..
 
neglecting air resistance, you would emerge on the other side of the earth, then fall back through the hole and emerge from where you initially jumped. this would take place for roughly infiniti years (assuming the solar system/universe would never change). However, due to air resistance, you would travel through the earth a little less each time. in fact, a lot less, considering you can only fall at around 130 mph because of air resistance so you would not manage to get very far after reaching the centre. you would eventually slow down and just be chilling in the center of the earth. you could probably find gertrude the duck.
 
Ok let's just forget about dropping a human down the hole because we all know he would die anyways. I more of less thinking of something that could survive the fall.
 
Yeah think of all the air pressure that you would be under and the G's you would endure when you got caught on the other side by gravity pulling back.... you'd die for sure.
 
And hasnt anyone read Journey to the Center of the Earth... ther fucking dinasours down there!
 
the equator would be the worst because it is as far from earths rotating axis as you can get, the north or south pole would have no deflection
 
i rememebr asking this in science class in middle school. "what would happen if u dug a hole through the earth and went in, and didnt get affected from the heat?"

teacher "you cant do that you'l burn. as i was saying....."

bitch didnt even answer.
 
you wouldnt go back and forth like a pendulum because you would have to take time to change directions and for that time you would be at a stop and gravity wouldnt be pulling you in either direction
 
If you dug the hole along the earth's axis of spin, you would not experience the coriolis effect and therefore you probably wouldn't hit the sides.

The surface of the earth is moving fastest due to its rotation at the equator... I am drunk, but unless I'm mistaken, the actual velocity experienced by an object in circular motion is equal (or at least proportional) to the angular velocity times the radius. This means that the larger the radius, the higher the velocity, and the equator is where we find the largest possible radius.
 
i got a good one. how about if there was no such thing as anything. ur house doesnt exist, ur family, ur town, ur country, ur continent, the whole world and its solar system. what is there if its all gone. no life, nothing. wtf is there! WHAT COLOR IS IT! wtf
 
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