Circumvent
I've always wanted to do this, to drill a hole through earth and jump in, but have you price those machines lately! Sheesh!
This comic will be updated as I get less sick.
posted by jeffrey rowland at 11:54:00 PM
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04 December 2006
I've always wanted to do this, to drill a hole through earth and jump in, but have you price those machines lately! Sheesh!
This comic will be updated as I get less sick.
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29 Comments:
i'd do it. i bet it'd be better than that lame jeep commercial too!
The comic looks pretty good as it is, to be honest.
Well this is what would happen:
You would fall for a long ass time and probably crap your pants. Then once you reached the center, you would be fried into a small potato like object, then as you resurfaced out the other side of the world, gravity would pull you back down and you keep going back and forth until you lost momentum and then slowly stopped and the remains of you would melt in the lava.
Get Well Soon!
I, too, am coming down with an illness. We can make it, Jeffrey, don't give up!
Well actually (Professor Frink accent), if you built a tube straight through the center of the earth so that it was insulated and held a constant temperature (for the sake of actually living through it), and came out of the opposite side of the planet, you would not actually make it quite to the other side. Drag would decrease your momentum and you would be yoyo slowly ceasing to move, until you are suspended at the center, the gravitational pull of the earths mass keeping you in balance. It would be a great thrill sport, that's for sure. Only one person can go at a time.
feel better!
Hm.. reanimated Fluffy and Joanna share more than a passing resemblance. Coincidence?
Hey, by sheer coincidence my wife and I started a comic about an emotional horse at about the same time that you released your latest shirt. Is it okay with you if we make your emo horse shirt the quasi-official shirt of our comic? We'd link to it in your store, and you'd take all the orders and keep all the money. Whaddya think?
Zero gravity... extreme temperature... bring some reggae music.
Hope youse feel better!!!
My fellow Jeffrey, I have lost a small measure of my insanely gigantic respect for you, reading that you actually gave "the core" a chance. Could you not feel your brain cells dying as the very concept of that movie came near you? I know I did....
Matt that sounds OK to me! If we get some referrals I'll send you a free shirt or something maybe.
Man the core is wicked fun!
I'll take that as tacit approval to plug our comic about clinically depressed barnyard animals, Horace and Friends. So far we only have a total of about 12 readers, so I doubt we'll send you enough referrals to warrant a free shirt. By the way, thanks for writing great comics!
comrade brad is correct. Whatever was left of you would return to the mouth of the hole that you jumped into every 88 minutes or so.
That's assuming that you don't bump into the wall and that your mass stays nearly constant despite the charring.
I just hope you drilled your hole so that it hits a landmass on the other side. otherwise you will get wet. And also there will probably be catastrophic tidal waves.
Hey Jeffrey I hope you feel better. I am looking at this in internet explorer and it is making me feel crappy. There is some weird crap on TV and my housemate thinks she is a character in an episode of 24. So everything is normal here.
Actually, assuming you built a stable tube running top to bottom, even shielded from the heat of the inner earth, you'd a) be crushed by the massive air pressure which would increase steadily as you approached the midpoint, and b) that same increased air pressure would slow you down and cause friction. Even if the friction didn't kill you the pressure would, and you wouldn't spit out the other side or anywhere close, as you'd be going far too slow for momentum to carry you very far back 'up' on the other side. The remains of you would sink back towards the midpoint again and eventually curl up into a fairly tight little ball. If you were by some miracle still alive at this point, you would be very sad.
When I was a lad I attempted to dig such a hole...the issue that arose was not so much the jumping into the hole as it was the getting out of it. Also, shovelling dirt is hard work for a nine-year-old with asthma.
Congratulations are in order to everyone here who apparently also took physics in high school. Except krin, who just makes no sense.
Anyway to me this comic is basically the ultimate example of OC fantas-hilarity.
Krin,
you are correct. I forgot the pressure differences. Maybe a fictional tube of constant pressure...
On a totally unrelated topic, I have been watching much Futurama of late and every time I see Dr. Zoidberg I think about this comic.
OMG YAYS.
Actually what would happen is volcanic eruptions through both side of the earth. So you wouldn't get in the hole.. At all..
What would happen? I'll tell you. You'd fall for about forty-two minutes, and pop out the other side. At least according to this Damn Interesting article on the subject and this Wikipedia entry on the subject. God, I love the internet
That was on, Saturday, when I was getting my tires replaced, and my alignment corrected.
It was definately a good free time waster. As opposed to the $223 time-necessitator that was changing my tires, and having my alignment corrected.
Definately glad I didn't pay to see it.
Damn the foul deity who allows Jeffro to become sick.
It's not like anyone else is going to keep us sane in this interwub.
wonder where you'd end up?
http://map.pequenopolis.com/
For some reason there's something so sad about an unfinished comic that ends with "I HAVE THE ILLNESS," like it's the last effort you were able to muster before collapsing... :(
Get better soon and remember: alcohol is nature's antibiotic!
Jeffrey all English Patient heroine.... "The lantern has gone out. I am uploading this comic to the interwub... in the dark..."
Heck, I thought that "Are we slowing down?" made a mighty fine punchline all on its own!
the_man: if it makes no sense, I suggest you read up on air pressure. Just as air density lowers at higher altitudes, it increases at lower altitudes due to the weight (yes, air has weight) of the air above it, in much the same way that the pressure of water increases as you descend deeper into the ocean.
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