Wednesday's Daily Quiz

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RUSTY and CYN got it

It's possible to win a game of chess in just 2 moves, known as the fool's mate

Today's question is

If you drill a hole through the center of the earth and jump into it, it would take you how longto come out the other end?

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LoneJack Zn 6a, KC
last year
Trick question Jas?

I don't think you would come out the other end since gravity would reverse half way through at the core and you would be stuck there.
roxsolid
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I was just thinking that, Lonejack! You’d be like the man on the MTA who never returned.

His fate is still unlearned, ya know.
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Annie Deighnaugh
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I agree with the others, you'd be drawn to the center and stay there. Of course you'd be burned up and suffocated along the way...

But if you imagined it could happen, human falling terminal velocity is about 120 mph so it would take about 66 hours to fall that distance -- the diameter of the earth -- if there were no other factors involved.
User
last year
Silly...so a guess....6 months.
bragu_DSM 5
last year
you would never come out the other end ...
chloebud
last year
roxsol, poor Charlie may ride forever ’neath the streets of Boston! (Huge KT fan here!)

Regarding the quiz question, assuming it would be a free fall and you wouldn’t get stuck and/or die, I’m guessing quicker than you’d think. I think a human can fall a mile pretty quickly. IDK, maybe 2-3 days…?
roxsolid
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chloebud, I now have an earworm.🙂
bragu_DSM 5
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you need a freebird to get rid of that earworm
Judy Good
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katlan
last year
you wouldn't come out the other end because you only drilled to the center?