If you dig a hole in the south pole are you digging up or down?
462383
up and down are directions from a gravitional center.  So, one would be digging down from anywhere on the earth's surface until he got to the earth's gravitational center...then he'd be digging up.
387644
The deepest research borehole ever drilled was in Russia, on the Kola peninsula. Over a period of more than a decade a huge rig, built specifically to do this, drilled to over 12 kilometers.  Digging that deep or deeper is _very_ hard as at those depths the pressure exerted by the earth begins to exceed the structural strength of most metals, so the earth actually begins to crush your drill.
537690
Technically you'd start digging up when you reached the centre of the core and entered the 'the half' whether you'd immediatly feel the shift is questionable... I think as you got right close to the centre of the earth your sense of up and down would weaken, so it wouldn't be until you'd got some way away that you'd feel like you were going up...and yes once you'd got up you would fall back down due to gravity. Think of the gravity as those like the force on those playground things you can spin in circle and the centrifugual force can be used to mkde you spin faster or slower as you hold yourself close in or furtehr out...the further out you are the more you feel the froce...the closer in the less obvious it is.\n\nEdit: 8928 the core is solid... your talking about the mantle in which even rocks are molten.
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.
311327
"Up" refers to getting the ball on the green (the putting surface) and "down" refers to getting the ball in the hole.\n\nIt is common for professional golfers to get "up and down" in two strokes.
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.
21030
Assuming you have a tunnel that goes through the earth, take aside the fact you would survive the temperatures and such at the center, assuming there's no resistance (vacumn like environment), you would fall into the hole... accelerate to terminal velocity...pass the center, and slowly decelerating, until you reach back a speed of 0, where you will be at the other end of the hole, whereapart the whole process would start all over again unless you grasp the edge :)\n\nConsidering that the fact there's air, you'll encounter resistence, meaning you will accelerate to the center, start slowing down, but fall short of reaching the other end, then you will fall to the center again, fall even shorter of your original jumping position, and you'll oscillate back and forth until you indeed get stuck in the center of the earth.
125690
The south pole has a manned base and in the middle of a wide-open flat area.  The north pole is somewhere in a huge conglomerate of unstable icebergs, is constantly shifting, and has no operations base.
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.
108094
you'd be going north no matter what direction you steped in. But East and west do come into play when you step off the pole. If you were exactly on the south pole and was able to rotate yourself clockwise, you would be turning east. Counterclockwise, you are turning west. you walk away from the S. pole, you are going north. The further you get away from the pole, the larger the circumference of the circle where you can walk east or west.
590630
How about a bowl of water beneath it? Is that within the rules? Alternatively one of the other posters is planning to drill a hole through the centre of the planet, you could always use their hole, it wouldn't break then!
98681
No we don't have the ability now, not only is the temperature too great, there is way too much pressure for us to overcome. It would crush anything significant before we got to far. \n\nThe farthest down that we have been is only a few thousand km, and that with a tiny drill.\n\nThe deepest holes in the crust are natural. Volcanoes bring up material from tens of km depth. The crust thickness averages about 18 miles (30 kilometers) under the continents, but is only about 3 miles (5 kilometers) under the oceans. It is light and brittle and can break. \n\nHere is a great article that explains a lot:\nhttp://www.livescience.com/technology/050407_earth_drill.html\n\nThe reason we explore space more, is because not only is it easier to accomplish, but it is also far safer and less costly. I agree though that exploring below the Earth can be quite rewarding, but we simply can't do it as of now.
794485
You are upside down... according to someone in Australia.\n\nThe Earth is a sphere and is constantly attracting you via gravity.  So no matter where you go it will always be pulling you towards the center.  As you travel around the globe "down" will always be toward the center of the Earth.
981512
It would want to point at the ground. By the way, the magnetic pole is in northern Canada, pretty far from the geographic pole. At the geographic pole it would point south, to the location of the magnetic pole.
741250
This process is long over due. \nIf the poles reversed it would disrupt Earth on a massive scale. To imagine the scenario look at the complications of The Bermuda Triangle. It may sound fanciful, but, this anomaly is occurring where the predicted north pole will end up. At the moment it is fluctuating between the two poles. Aircraft, ships and modern vessels have disappeared because of this swing. Radar goes hay-wire and so too does electronic equipment.\nThe last one recorded occurred before the last ice-age. This brought the speedy death of millions of creatures known as the Mega-Beasts. There is a place in Russia, (the spot where the south pole sprung up) Where thousands of these Beasts lie dead. Twisted and crushed with trees and vegetation, smashed together in gruesome contorted throes. Massive lava flows are mingled in too, on a truly monumental state.\nIt lasted only for a few years but the impact was colossal!!!
528890
depends on your perspective doesn't it.\n\nbut by definition, "down" is in the direction of gravity.\n\nit is impossible to dig "up" unless you were underground.
126890
Antartica because it is at the bottom of the globe and it is mostly snowy there