REFERENCE & ENTERTAINMENT: The Otherside of the World!

WHAT: Today's brick is simple: take a Google Map and modify it. Everyone's doing it. However, this site let's you fulfill that childhood question: "If I dug a hole through the earth, would I end up in China?" The answer is: probably not. You'd more than likely end up in a huge body of water.

WHY: Today's brick is purely a conversation starter, and I suppose a spoiler of adolescence. Truly, it's not really vital that you know where you'd end up if you could accomplish the insurmountable task of DIGGING a hole through the CENTER of the EARTH! Not-with-standing the enormous distance or the nuclear heat that would incinerate your flesh instantly, you know you want to know where you'd end up, right?

Right. The strange thing is this, though: don't you feel that you have some sort of connection with the people that live exactly opposite on the globe than you? What is that fascination? I suppose that, in some metaphysical way, they are your Doppelgänger of sorts.

Most likely, though, you're going to find that your Doppelgänger on the otherside of the planet is a fish. Or maybe a shark. Or algae. Plankton, most likely...

www.ubasics.com/dighole/

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