philverney
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A neat app built around Google Earth allows users to click on their current location and then shows where you'd come out if you dug straight through the Earth's core to the other side of the planet. Looks like the Blogma writers in CNET's San Francisco offices will have to bring our life vests along for the trip because we'll end up in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
And a direct link to the application.
....I wonder where you come out.
Enjoy!......I'm off to borrow a shovel as I'm not sure I believe them  Although if the application is correct, some swimming trunks may also be needed 
Phil
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Latitude64
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Onoes!!! It's written on the Internet, so it must be true!
I wonder how many students will fail geography/physics/geophysics/whatever this semester because they will truly believe they could dig through the Earth ...
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Sirous_Nekooei
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One interesting point is: in most places of the world, you'll come out in oceans. Just some areas in southern America will come out in China!
Sirous
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terralink
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Reged: 09/29/04
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Loc: Baltimore, MD, USA
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I love this app, but is there a way to do this from within the Google Earth program itself? Here's hoping someone with more computer skills and time than me can create something. I use Google Earth in a museum and would love to allow visitors to do this within the exhibit, but that means being within Google Earth itself. Thanks!
P.S. Maryland comes out west of Australia in the Indian Ocean, like most of the U.S., I would imagine.
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martnal
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Most of the Indian Ocean comes out in North America though.
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giventofly
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Answer on this thread
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/331614/page/0/vc/1
Not exactly digging holes, but a method of finding the exact opposite side of the world
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MightyPete
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Did you happen to notice the RIVER OF LAVA ?
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IanUK
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I'm gonna need a coat, I end up in Antarctica!
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terralink
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Reged: 09/29/04
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Loc: Baltimore, MD, USA
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Okay, but how about a way to do this without the measure tool - only because our visitors (at a Science Center) aren't really familiar with the tool and a stand-alone "digging"-type app would allow them to not have to figure out how to use measurement?
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Periboob
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Loc: Missouri, US
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Dont have a real answer, but your question makes me nostalgic. Long long ago, back in EarthViewer NV, the precursor of GE, there used to a function where you could just type "mirror" in a goto field, and be zoomed to the antipodes.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/1658/page/
An even cooler function that has been left behind was the ability to save a "tour" that would take the viewer on a barrel-roll.
Of course the app crashed a lot, and there were only about 20 active members on the BBS. And hardly anywhere had high-rez coverage. Overall, its absolutely better today--but I still remember doing that roll on the projector screen at the club meeting and having several folks fall out of their seats
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