When construction strikes

When I was a kid, my grandpa would sometimes ask me, as I was playing in the yard in front of his Bloomington, Indiana farmhouse, if I was digging a hole to China.

I'm pretty sure, now, that such an undertaking is not possible.

According to a physicist, if you dug a hole through the middle of Earth, and jumped in, you'd be incinerated by the heat. If you weren't burned up, though, you'd accelerate toward the core, decelerate as you moved away from the core, and by the time you reached China, you'd reach a complete stop on the other side.

I hope the construction workers in the video below -- they were jack-hammering, cutting asphalt, and excavating across the street from my house all night -- are digging a hole to the center of Earth.

And I hope they're all incinerated when they get there.



They have broken me, and the laws of man clearly do not apply to these bastards.

But they can't break the laws of physics.