digging through the earth?
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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.
644469
the person digging it--2 pts
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.
540360
Right here: http://earth.google.com/\n\nReally neat, you can sometimes even see right into backyards!
1106330
Yes, a 10 feet rod that you poke around in the earth and get samples. Which you analyze for humidity and graph to get a more less accurate location. But don't worry more than 70% of the earth can be dug up into wells, because water will "find" the hole looking for the path of least resistance.
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ALL practical stuff aside:\n\nI hypothesize it would be headfirst, because gravity would still be sucking you towards the center of the earth, not the surface towards which you were digging. Halfway through your digging I guess it would shift from under your feet to over your head. \n\nAlthough, if you dig yourself into the pit of magma at the core of the earth you could always come up in a volcanic eruption, in which case, on the plus side you oculd be in hawaii or somewhere cool but all of your parts would look about the same so it wouldnt matter.
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Interesting stuff.  I wouldn't mind if we were not alone in the universe. I found some discussion of this stuff on the internet, but if you have better sources, please post them \nThis is an article about Inca stones and the whole archeological find \nhttp://www.labyrinthina.com/ica.htm\nsome pictures here. about 1/4 down the page\nhttp://www.raphaelk.co.uk/web%20pics/Peru/Peru.htm
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i'm assuming that you are ralking bout a hole being drilled right thru the earth and somebody falling into it...............you would accelerate and move towards the center and reach the opposite end of earth, at which point your velocity will reduce to zero and you will again move back to the cetre of earth and then onto the starting place.............in simple words you would execute Simple Harmonic Motion(SHM)
992008
empiracally ?? [[ignore spelling]]\n\ncompared against earlier well-drillings?\n\n(this would work ... "real-world" data is not elegant but it's very "real")
664239
we will never know whats going on out there if we dont explore it.\nmaybe there is aliens out there who would want to communicate with us or there may be some asteroid out there that is going to hit the Earth in near future.
799123
Depends where you drill. The distance from the poles is slightly different than the distance from the equators since the earth is slightly bulged at the equator.\n\nIf you were to drill straight through from the north pole to the south pole, you would travel about 7901 miles while drilling at the equator would add about 26 miles.
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Yes, the stuff is far far deeper in the earth than any nuclear device could penetrate.
701683
My opinion is that we would have to change course of an asteroid headed for Earth.  That means that we would have to detect it years in advance.  With enough notice, we could build a Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) system.  Actually we would have to build several and attach them to the asteroid and start pushing.   They would need to be refueled, so we have to make several visits.   If successful, a project like this would be a real boon to the space program, the economy, and scientific knowlege.
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There is significant research being done in imaging through objects like bricks, etc. However, much more research needs to be done. And the technology is still very far away to image such tings from space. \nSo NO.\n\nHopefully the technology would be used to image into the ground and used for mine detection in many parts of the world.
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This site will give you that information and more.\n\nhttp://www.livescience.com/technology/050407_earth_drill.html
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how much depth you have to work with. Will things like sewers, TV cable, fiber optics, electrical lines, gas lines be in the way? Also, what is the geology of the ground you're going to tunnel through.
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Geologists don't really know. And carbon dating has been proved to be inaccurate.\n   Just recently a geode was found.  A geologist looked at it and said it was 22 million years old, but when they x-rayed it they found a spark plug inside.  Guess what the spark plug was from 1961!!!!!  There are a lot of things being discovered in coal mines .     The coal layer is supposed to be 200 million years old but what are iron pots and brass bells and human bodies doing imbedded there.  They even found a concrete wall in one coal mine!!  Kind of makes you wonder about these things doesn't it?\n   The Bible says man has only been around about 6000 to 6500 years on the earth.