Ironic how US kids cartoons commonly portray “digging to China” as something americans can hypothetically do, to the point where a good portion of American adults just assume it to be true. Yet the only place where that’s possible is South America.
Usually the people debunking the notion focuses on the fact that the Earth is molten in the center so you can’t dig all the way through it in the same way you can’t dig to the ocean floor from the surface (which is reasonable don’t get me wrong), but they rarely mention the fact that China is not actually on the opposite side of the Earth to the US.
This isn’t a political comment. I just find it interesting that this is something literally anyone can disprove with a dollar store globe but no one bothers to do it and instead just assume the cartoons for children are factual.
Ironic how US kids cartoons commonly portray “digging to China” as something americans can hypothetically do, to the point where a good portion of American adults just assume it to be true. Yet the only place where that’s possible is South America.
Usually the people debunking the notion focuses on the fact that the Earth is molten in the center so you can’t dig all the way through it in the same way you can’t dig to the ocean floor from the surface (which is reasonable don’t get me wrong), but they rarely mention the fact that China is not actually on the opposite side of the Earth to the US.
This isn’t a political comment. I just find it interesting that this is something literally anyone can disprove with a dollar store globe but no one bothers to do it and instead just assume the cartoons for children are factual.