We put a 1 km hole through earth, straight through it like a diameter, and assuming all the Lava and stuff didn't fill the hole (even tho it would). What would happen.
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Well... first figure out the volume of a cylinder 12,800 km long and a km wide... roughly 10,000 cubic km and divide that by the Earth's atmosphere's total volume, just to be sure we don't suck it all down the hole.
Okay... it comes out to less than 1/100,000ths, so we should be safe.
Then we wonder if super-heated air from the center of the Earth would affect weather patterns...
No, because air isn't efficiently "replaced" inside the hole... if we could drill a few vent holes... no, nevermind.
Finally, you just gottta wonder what the damn hole is for?
Okay... it comes out to less than 1/100,000ths, so we should be safe.
Then we wonder if super-heated air from the center of the Earth would affect weather patterns...
No, because air isn't efficiently "replaced" inside the hole... if we could drill a few vent holes... no, nevermind.
Finally, you just gottta wonder what the damn hole is for?
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You would have (partly) built a high-speed route from one side of the Earth, to the other!
A vehicle traveling down through this hole, propelled by the force of gravity in a vacuum, would take around 40 minutes to reach its destination.
Imagine getting to the other side of our Planet in just 40 minutes!
A vehicle traveling down through this hole, propelled by the force of gravity in a vacuum, would take around 40 minutes to reach its destination.
Imagine getting to the other side of our Planet in just 40 minutes!
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The issue is gravity, gravity would pull you to a side and you'd slide your way down, and once you'd reach halfway to the other side, gravity pulls to the core of the Earth so you'd end up stuck halfway through.
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Nothing